Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
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Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Looks like many eastern SI places, especially south of Woodend Beach, may get a good fall of rain, starting tomorrow night and continuing into Tuesday and Wednesday and even including Central Otago.
I have never seen a heavy rain warning for Central Otago so that might be interesting.
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I have never seen a heavy rain warning for Central Otago so that might be interesting.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
GFS going for well over 100mm south of CHCH and about 75mm for Christchurch. Metservice saying rain developing tonight and heavy falls Tuesday and Wednesday for Christchurch, however, Tuesday looks pretty dry here and seems that Wednesday will be the wet day.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Hello all! According to someone who gets email from the Met service, more than 1 metre of snow is forecast for the high country tops on Tuesday!
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Central Otago needs this rain! Clear blue skies here today.
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Yes, although I think that's, 'from midnight tonight until early Wednesday morning that one metre of snow could accumulate above 1000 metres', according to this morn's 10:34am 'Snow Otago Warnings'. Lighter falls 'may fall as low as 600 metres'.Twizel Dave wrote:Hello all! According to someone who gets email from the Met service, more than 1 metre of snow is forecast for the high country tops on Tuesday!
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Its weird, GFS is going for 84mm for CHCH but on the GFS output maps (3 day rainfall) Metservice uses it looks like no more than 15-20mm...? I sent Bob McDavitt an email enquiring about rainfall from this event and he said christchurch could miss out altogether with some models indicating that and others suggesting around 20mm.
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2014 Rainfall: Jan: 21mm Feb: 76mm March: 170mm April: 201mm YTD: 468mm
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2014 Rainfall: Jan: 21mm Feb: 76mm March: 170mm April: 201mm YTD: 468mm
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Currently fine and breezy northeasterly in Oamaru. Weather Warnings to the community have been issued by Civil Defence . Now we wait to see what happens. We are dry and could do with 25mm but the forecasted 100-150mm may be a tad too much
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Yes Oamaru is certainly looking like it will take a pounding.
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2014 Rainfall: Jan: 21mm Feb: 76mm March: 170mm April: 201mm YTD: 468mm
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
GFS going for 84mm for here starting early tuesday, Dont think we will see that much but 50-60mm seems quite likely.
Nice and fine today though, Currently 18 degrees.
Nice and fine today though, Currently 18 degrees.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Light rain starting to fall here now.
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Now cloudy and threatening to the west . Farmers are warned , low lying homeowners and those prone to flooding also advised .CD cordinators and their volunteers all notified .Media notices issued . Now we wait
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Some pretty funky mammatus around here at the moment. Very dramatic sky, and a few spits of rain
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Latest radar is showing mod-heavy rain around Dunedin and towards inland,considering that area is a blind spot in the radar system,it must be pissing down right now.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
First puff of wind from the southwest here five minutes ago.
Temperature was 18.2 degrees then, now 17.3.
Temperature was 18.2 degrees then, now 17.3.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Light rain in Oamaru , still NW though
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Looking fantastic for an interesting day tomorrow my way,dont mind at all been north of the main rain bearing front with this kind of forecast
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
yes looking very interesting here tomorrow, hopefully it eventuates and we get a decent thunderstorm. Just a pity I have to work tomorrow at least i'll still see and hear it whether i'm in the shed or not
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
10mm of rain here since 5pm, temp 7 degrees.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Not a drop yet in DunedinRichard wrote:Latest radar is showing mod-heavy rain around Dunedin and towards inland,considering that area is a blind spot in the radar system,it must be pissing down right now.
There is no such thing as bad weather, just the wrong clothes.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
I finished all the lawns today but this afternoon did notice a nice line of developing castellanus to the north-west. Castellanus usually means a possible tendancy for thunderstorm development later.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
We had lots of castellanus today as well. Now raining steadily , breezy Southerly 9.9 degrees
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Only just started raining heavily here in the last hour. 6mm so far.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
The heaviest rain for the area is still hours away. Little bit of shower activity popping up on the radar now for here. Not going to get the sunny spells to allow for heating here. Dull with low cloud, southerly breeze and looks like it will start drizzling any minute.snowstormwatcher wrote:Only just started raining heavily here in the last hour. 6mm so far.
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2014 Rainfall: Jan: 21mm Feb: 76mm March: 170mm April: 201mm YTD: 468mm
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.
Clear sky here with a convergences line out to the east, this cloud is moving to SW,also building cloud is now popping up all round,Looking really good 10deg and no wind currently