Trough 4-5 April

CHCH Weather Chaser · Mon 04/04/2011 20:36

Heavy period of rain has started up again here in the last half hour. 7mm recorded taking the days total through to 62mm

borris89 · Unread post by **borris89** » Mon 04/04/2011 20:56

Heavy shower in central Dunedin currently with small hail mixed in

Manukau heads obs · Mon 04/04/2011 21:08

have picked up a few strikes from the front approaching the NI....which is coming in at a good rate of knots too

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 04/04/2011 21:26

I cant believe M/S has no risk for Waikato tomorrow, the forecast soundings are blindingly obvious yet no risk at all?

They have fixed their convective outllook with the evening update.

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 04/04/2011 21:58

Metservice forecast for Invercargill was totally wrong for today/tonight. It was cool and dry with long sunny spells and at the moment, it's a clear starry evening with a light breeze.

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Mon 04/04/2011 23:48

Went to Chch and back from Oamaru . Rained all the way up and all the way back . Heavy rain south of Templeton as we headed home at dusk . Driving conditions quite bad . Saw two nose to tail prangs involving trucks too . 27 mm in my Oamaru gauge since 0900 this morning . Still occasional showers as I type this

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 05/04/2011 07:17

10mm rain here in the early hours. Not too cold this morning with 13C, hardly any wind which surprised me...

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 07:50

Plenty of wind out here on the coast , should be making its way in land over the next few hours
nice looking CB"s out to my west I can see now after this last shower line just gone through

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 05/04/2011 08:52

Wind still light here, partly cloudy 15C, one or two small showers around the city.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 08:54

CB's are weakening as they move in from the west
so the upper cold pool is still offshore here at the moment
but they are looking stronger to the south of me, with some blown off tops even

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 09:46

Near Gale conditions recorded here in that last squall, gusts to 46 kts, averaging 30 knots

Ricky and I put up a new wind turbine here by the house in the weekend (smaller, 1 kw)
getting a good work out, was sending 1.5kw!
was a bit scary in that squall seeing the leeward guy wire go a bit slack....put in the brake switch and tightened up the windward guy wires a bit !

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 05/04/2011 10:49

looks like the cold pool is very near the coast now

$\:D/$ . have had some heavy squalls come through already this morning.

i finally got a haircut (10months since last one)

on the weekend and now my ears are exposed and they are not finding the colder weather very nice. need to put a beanie on 24/7

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 05/04/2011 11:54

Plenty of needles now mostly blown from the roof as its mostly W though there should be a couple of kleensaks by days finish.

Raikyn · Unread post by **Raikyn** » Tue 05/04/2011 13:14

Thunder in Hastings atm. Constant, every minute or two.

Edit: make that about every 30sec

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 05/04/2011 13:21

Pretty uninteresting here so far,

lol
Peak wind gusts around 40kph, showers so far have been very brief and barely enough to register in rain gauge.

Raikyn · Unread post by **Raikyn** » Tue 05/04/2011 13:36

Dropped about 5 degrees as it went through, sun is coming back out now, looks to be fairly clear skys behind it.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 13:46

that Napier/Hastings shower showed up well on the BOP rain radar even
looks like it instensified as it came off the ranges

bmo · Unread post by **bmo** » Tue 05/04/2011 14:36

Was walking outside, nice and sunny/warm then a heavy shower came past freezing cold outside in Orewa now all the school kids are complaining about it! Had about 5 showers that were very heavy for 2 minutes, some roads were flooded for 10 minutes but now most is gone, the odd heavy shower comes past now and then.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 05/04/2011 15:13

Some better looking clouds around over the past hour and a report of thunder over East Auckland.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 15:18

good CB tops to my SW now
and I am picking up strikes from that direction too

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Tue 05/04/2011 15:47

Report of a Quote "Mini Tornado" ripping off a roof in South Auckland this afternoon.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-storie ... s-off-roof

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/04/2011 15:53

Ricky and I were watching some nice wall cloud type lowerings on some of the CB lines that came through here...

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 05/04/2011 15:55

Had about 10 seconds of small hailstones here followed by a light to moderate shower. Pretty darn cold for April...12C at present, though it reached 18C earlier

bmo · Unread post by **bmo** » Tue 05/04/2011 16:24

14.1C and 22.8mm of rain since last night. It was a whole lot colder at Orewa then here at my house. Winds aren't too bad about 33.1km/h

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Tue 05/04/2011 16:56

snowstormwatcher wrote:Report of a Quote "Mini Tornado" ripping off a roof in South Auckland this afternoon.

http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-storie ... s-off-roof

And a slightly more updated version from Stuff - 'Wild weather lifts roof trapping man'

Edit: Updated my update.

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