Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.

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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.

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Looking south towards CHCH,just thought you would like to see what its like above that low cloud Leighton :D
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.

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Haha, thanks Richard. Although I must say we have fast increasing blue sky all of a sudden with drizzle stopped and some weak CU at the moment. :D
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Lovely blue sky here in town now
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Razor wrote:Lovely blue sky here in town now
Hopefully with this, an interesting afternoon in store!
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Raining heavy here all morning, 24mm so far.
Cold as well currently 5 degrees.
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No sign of heavy showers as yet with sunny spells and cloud, southerly is beginning to strengthen. You can see that low starting to do a turn around Timaru on the radar. Looks fairly wet down there.
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Rain becoming persistant and heavier,cold at 6.5 degrees.Looks rough down South Canterbury way,road warnings out for high winds south of Timaru.Snowing at Tekapo and Mt Cook village.
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Moderate to heavy rain Oamaru .We had a brief respite at around 0900 this morning , but the southerly rose to gale at about 1000 and rain set in by 1100 heavy at times
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Deano wrote:Snowing at Tekapo and Mt Cook village.
Really???
Not according to the webcam at Tekapo
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Razor wrote:
Deano wrote:Snowing at Tekapo and Mt Cook village.
Really???
Not according to the webcam at Tekapo

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Roundhill Ski Area webcams show snow, but I'm not sure what altitude those cams are at, as the snow is covering the view.
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Ahhhhh Humble Apologies folks! I haven't looked for an age

I'm seeing some parallels here with the storm that wiped out the Lyttelton marina a few years back....maybe....
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Thunder & lightning to north since 2.30pm , looks to be just south of Hamner Springs \:D/
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Useless http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/NZStormVue.html isn't showing many of the lightning strikes i'm hearing,i recon ive heard at least 20 so far.
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Man that last one rattled the windows \:D/ \:D/ getting closer :D
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Just breezy and passing cloudy spells here.
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Yes defenitly snowing at Tekapo, I had to go up there and have just come back and it was snowing heavy from the top of Burkes pass. Around 10cm in Tekapo village.

Up to 37mm of rain here now eased off a bit to what it was but still solid rain.
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Re: Heavy Rain Event for the Eastern South Island 18 & 19th Oct.

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An annoying, boring days weather here with prevailing cloud and strong southerlies. What the heck happended to the rain band, its vanished over the last couple of hours...

I must say, metservice have been a little bit off with the "showers becoming frequent and heavy this afternoon", you need showers in the first place to become frequent.
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:An annoying, boring days weather here with prevailing cloud and strong southerlies. What the heck happened to the rain band, its vanished over the last couple of hours...

I must say, metservice have been a little bit off with the "showers becoming frequent and heavy this afternoon", you need showers in the first place to become frequent.

Yes and the rain band/front out to the east of the South Island that earlier today i thought may have swung back on to Canterbury looks to be heading far more to the south.....at this stage.

Well i felt lucky enough today to have had at least an active storm nearby, though after i had finally decided to hop in the car and drive a lot closer,it fizzled out :mad: mind you did see one fantastic strike before it died
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Richard wrote:Thunder & lightning to north since 2.30pm , looks to be just south of Hamner Springs \:D/
Sounded like it was north of Culverden... was a bit hard to tell though as I was in the shed milking the cows at the time.
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trickytiger wrote:
Richard wrote:Thunder & lightning to north since 2.30pm , looks to be just south of Hamner Springs \:D/
Sounded like it was north of Culverden... was a bit hard to tell though as I was in the shed milking the cows at the time.
Yep the radar showed south of Hamner but north of Culverden,my pathetic attempt at storm chasing today only took me as far as Culverden where i soon gave up,so then brought some petrol and a chocbar and headed home again :-w
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i'm sure there will be more and better storms for us this year, hopefully on my days off too so I can also go storm chasing
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Pouring with rain in Oamaru . Between 6-8mm rain falling each hour. Strong to gale Southerlies. We have flooding around properties and flooded roads .
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I see Dunedin and Oamaru Fire are getting a few calls to flooding around the area.
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trickytiger wrote:i'm sure there will be more and better storms for us this year, hopefully on my days off too so I can also go storm chasing
Yep i hope so hey :D
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