Significant tropical-rain event 22-25 Jan

[David]

Hmm, my 'new record light' is flashing again - lowest pressure my station has recorded (set up Dec 2009), currently 990.7 hPa
The local beaches around here got the storm surge quite bad this morning, maybe a repeat tonight...

[iomkiwi]

It will go S or SW suddenly,what I notice here it starts going to the west then suddenly it will go N or NE for a few minutes as a very gentle breeze to tease then all hell lets loose.

Has gone pretty calm here now, baro looks like its on the climb again, but what wind there is still from the N

Has gone to the SW now.
Baro bottomed out at 985.7 just after 7pm

[bmo]

currently 982.4 hPa at 8:30pm parakai. Winds aren't to bad just a little gusty at times.

[NZstorm]

Just to demonstrate how widespread the heavy rain was today, some more tallys here from Met Service AWS.
Napier 111mm
Taupo 146mm
Waiouru 84mm

[jamie]

Just to demonstrate how widespread the heavy rain was today, some more tallys here from Met Service AWS.
Napier 111mm
Taupo 146mm
Waiouru 84mm

yes, almost everywhere it seems has had around 100mm or more. on my drive south the waikato looked filthy. never seen it so dirty. the waipa is rising at an incredible rate. this is a graph of it near te awamutu

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

At last I've seen SW gales forecasted for Auckland.
Probably a light wind at Michael's and the pine needles will go in another direction

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Captain Salty]

do you think he should turn the siren off then?

[Manukau heads obs]

is that hook on the rain radar the low center, west of kaipara?

[jamie]

is that hook on the rain radar the low center, west of kaipara?

my highly trained highly skilled professional eye is telling me you are correct there brian. i sped up the radar 7min loop and from what i see its just west of kaipara as you said. its hugging the coast line.

[bmo]

MS--The low is expected to move south to lie just west of Auckland at midnight, then track southeastwards across the North Island during Monday.

[bmo]

Philip Duncan on Twitter-Centre of the low now roughly over Whangarei... sou'westers moving in behind it. Reports that gales are very strong in Whangaparaoa.

So you might be wrong?

[Manukau heads obs]

I think Phillip Duncan is wrong

[jamie]

at 8pm the radar showed it over whangarei. it travelled from there south over the kaipara harbour. as at 9.30 it is much harder to see where exactly it is. 8pm though it was very clear

[Philip Duncan]

Well we're actually both right! The centre of the low is actually fairly broad. Brian is technically closer though

[bmo]

I can tell you that on our hill overlooking the Kaipara Harbour the wind has dropped quite considerably and it started raining.

[Manukau heads obs]

baro has bottomed out here now...
should wake up to strong to gale SWers tomorrow I guess

[Philip Duncan]

baro has bottomed out here now...
should wake up to strong to gale SWers tomorrow I guess

Michael I bet you can hardly sleep tonight with excitement

[bmo]

Winds are completely gone now in kaukapakapa

[Manukau heads obs]

gusting to 40 knots here from the west,at 6:30, as predicted

[Michael]

Quite surprised not SW yet no doubt will soon.

[Manukau heads obs]

sure is a rapid rise in the barometer here
surprised its not windier
the low might be filling as it moves away from here, making the barometer rise faster

986.9 was the lowest the baro got here at 2:30am

[Dale]

Smoothed out at 987 here also.. only 1hpa off my lowest recorded reading for this location. Was nice to have an hours peace and quiet before she kicked in from the other way!

[Razor]

Gee early days but an action replay is on the cards next weekend...

[Michael]

Its just arrived here now,en masse "3 legged brown spiders" horizontally blowing upwards like rain,in 1/2 hour theyll be randomly over every single thing.probably need a good storm to wipe some of the branches (preferably not SW as it will land on the roof)

[Nev]

Some amazing pics in this NZ Herald photo-gallery of the flooding around Auckland yesterday.

Seems to warrant the comment below from this story.

The king tide stretched into the lower streets of downtown Auckland. Firefighters fought to clear commercial premises, which became waterlogged as rainfall compounded the tide.

Building manager Michael Urquhart said the flooding was "unprecedented" in the lower CBD, and had poured into basements on Quay St.