Easter Weather

[Tornado Tim]

21.0mm today so far.....
Relatively warm night at 15°C @ 98% RH.
Update: added Graph

[David]

The Akld, Wgtn and Chch radars are still being updated on Weatherzone.co.nz

The 10pm image doesn't suggest to me that another 50-80mm could fall tonight...
Easing back here, 34mm since midnight.

[Manukau heads obs]

nearly at 50mm total here now (at 11pm)
and still raining steadily,and baro still dropping steadily
rain radar shows the system has been slowing down its southward movement, so still lots of rain to come (there is warnings out)

[bmo]

Just had some heavy rain passing over but back again to raining steadily, almost no wind at all to speak off.
30mm since 00:00

[Manukau heads obs]

75mm total here now at 6am
wind has increased from the SSE
rain radar shows the worst of therain is through now

daylight reveals flooding on the flats below us

update, the drizzle we are getting at the moment is actually thick and keeping the rain rate up around 5mm per hour

[Orion]

A few gusts of southerly wind; wintry-sounding rain; 5.1 degrees at present.

[David]

Main rain band cleared the area after 3am. 60mm total here, but from 8pm there was 38mm (60-100mm was expected after 8pm...)

[Nev]

Ended up with 53mm in total here after some heavier falls last night.

[Manukau heads obs]

now at 80mm total here
the ranges (Waitakere and Hunua) could easily has reached the forecasted warning amounts David

[jamie]

56mm here with flooding around. still getting gusty heavy rain showers so should top 60mm in not too long

[Brassnz]

118mm in Laingholm for 24hrs to 8am.

[Manukau heads obs]

118mm in Laingholm for 24hrs to 8am.

as I suspected, areas closer to the waitakere ranges would have got higher amounts
so that validates the warnings put out David

[David]

118mm in Laingholm for 24hrs to 8am.

as I suspected, areas closer to the waitakere ranges would have got higher amounts
so that validates the warnings put out David

The warning was for all of Auckland. Is Laingholm near the top of the ranges? Seems odd it supposedly has way higher totals than other areas much of the time. Someone I personally know who lives in the waitakere ranges, surrounded by bush, recorded 53mm for the event.

[Manukau heads obs]

Interestingly Ricky has a rising temperature and little wind at the moment
we have a decresing temperature and increasing wind, and its still thick drizzle
the low looks to be passing right over the auckland city area now?

[Manukau heads obs]

Is Laingholm near the top of the ranges?

no, its at the start , SE end, but will be getting orographic lift

Someone I personally know who lives in the waitakere ranges, surrounded by bush, recorded 53mm for the event

they live on the NW end, i.e behind the main ranges in a E or SE rain event, and so will be in a rain shadow

Howick is between the Waitakere and Hunua ranges and so is in a rain basin (shadow) area

the rain warnings will be for the worst areas of the region

[bmo]

39mm from this rain event, not much but then again heaviest falls were expected in east Auckland. Very thick drizzle and fog makes everything very wet outside.

[David]

Clearing up nicely in Howick, sun coming out, 19C, dewpoint 19C.

[Manukau heads obs]

huge difference from here
its only 12.3C here and wind increasing, gusting to 36 knots
and thick drizzle

sure is a compact low centre !

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Heavy shower here at the moment with no wind to speak of.

[Manukau heads obs]

the rain radar suggests the Low center has now stalled over the Auckland city area (i.e Auckland city is on the southern fringe of the low that extends to the north into southern northland)
it might start to back track a bit now?
(as the models predict)

[Tornado Tim]

55mm from the event so far, windy for here atm, gusted to 62km/hr at one point.

[bmo]

Extremely foggy here had two helicopters and a few airplanes really low over our house today, thick drizzle still here and conditions becoming really bad with thicker fog. Can only see about 10-20 meters in front of you without the drizzle with drizzle probably less then 10 meters.

[Nev]

I see that from after midnight yesterday to 9am this morn (33 hrs), Akld Aero had recorded 98mm, while NIWA's Pukekohe site was at 112mm ... and it's still raining.

EDIT: Tauranga Aero was also up to a whopping 143.4mm by 9am.

[jamie]

eventful day at work so far. light truck and trailer was flipped right outside work from the wind. car park at work was flooded due to leaves blocking all the drains, and now a tree has fallen across the road outside work blocking both lanes.

Im off to Taupo for the night this afternoon. hoping to see some more eventful weather realted things.

[Orion]

Sincerely hope nobody is hurt or seriously inconvenienced by these weather events.