General December Weather

[mikestormchaser]

good call Richard, metservice have a risk of heavy showers this afternoon. so maybe there some connection there?
Nice warm morning though, light to moderate winds, sun beaming down!

[mikestormchaser]

Mybe not.. they have changed there forcarst oh well, may have been something there. may just be a dry kind of day

[Richard]

Dont know about that Mike,there's some good looking cloud build up happening up here at the moment and i see they have thunder storm warning out for North Canterbury

[Storm Struck]

Interesting obviously some storms around Cheviot earlier on with purple and red on the radar there, nothing too interesting here though.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Still beautiful blue dome skies in the area with a gusty southerly up to 50km.h and sitting on 21 degrees at the airport. Here 22.6 degrees and a southerly but no where near that strong. Around 30km.h tops.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

31mm is the last hour in Kerikeri! Thats getting up there alright. Takaka local weather station has received 92mm so far there from this system.

[Richard]

First rumble heard just then to the NE ,been getting heavy rain for the last 1/2 hour

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

First rumble heard just then to the NE ,been getting heavy rain for the last 1/2 hour

Lucky!! yes some decent falls north of Waipara by the looks.

[FIREFROG]

My wife arrived in Kerikeri about half an hour ago, Air NZ cancelled the flight and bussed the passengers north. She has said it is VERY heavy rain in the area. no sign of it letting up either. Mind you Karikari need it

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

My wife arrived in Kerikeri about half an hour ago, Air NZ cancelled the flight and bussed the passengers north. She has said it is VERY heavy rain in the area. no sign of it letting up either. Mind you Karikari need it

Yes 54mm in last 2 hours! Still going down at a rate. The local station up there isnt reading as high as that but its going up very quickly still and peak rain rates have reached 150mm/h.

Takaka still very heavy rain there also with 109mm there.

[David]

We are up to 13 mm in Howick after light rain all day, hoping for far more than that this evening/overnight

[Brassnz]

33mm since 9am in Laingholm. Nothing particularly torrential today, just incessant.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

We have 2 paddox waiting for the bayler and he can't do it tonight, so I'm hanging in there for the rain to hold off until tomorrow when he can do it.
Interesting to see a strong cold, nuisance South to SW wind here this afternoon with no cloud to the south but a increase of cloud to the north with some 'blow-ups' noted. I can understand a 'clap or 2' around you area, Richard.
The new radar scan showed some red blipps when you posted.
Musta been a low development around BP for the windy south to SW winds

[Richard]

wow thats a lot of rain alright

Been funny old weather here today,took the kids to the Hurunui river for a swim,while down there it came up looking really threatening so we thought best to head home,while driving on the north side of the bridge we hit amazing cloud burst,other motorists had pulled over because it was so heavy,got to the other side of the bridge and nothing.

The photo below was taken at 5.00pm,thought we were in for some T&L going by how nasty it was looking,but no just rain

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Keep that rain away from here, Richard until after tomorrow

[Richard]

Interesting to see a strong cold, nuisance South to SW wind here this afternoon...

Had very little wind here all day but in the last hour the SW has started to increase

...I can understand a 'clap or 2' around you area, Richard.
The new radar scan showed some red blipps when you posted.

Nothing to write home about though John,sounded a long way off to the NE,it didnt even show up on - http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/NZStormVue.html

[Storm Struck]

Wind all over the show today was SW this morning until about 3pm then went around to the NE for awhile, now back to the SW with a shower of rain currently and very pleasent .

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Constant SW or Southerly here which is quite good as it is keeping the northerly oncoming rain away, but clouding over, increasing the slight humidity on the ground, as the temperature drops away.
Anyone wants some gradually rotting hay

[Manukau heads obs]

very usefull 21mm here
rain did not start until 2:30pm in Tauranga, just as we were leaving..

[Richard]

Ended up with 10mm today, a lot lot more a few kms east of me though.

Yes John may have been a bad time to have had it cut hey with a few damp days coming up

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes John may have been a bad time to have had it cut hey with a few damp days coming up

Had it organized over a weekago but the local contractor has been going 'flat tack', sadly.
I'm not worrying though. Neighbours have there's done, so can get a supply off them, if ours is no good.

[Nev]

I see 105mm fell at Kerikeri Aero yesterday, and 82mm at Alan's Kerikeri site.

A very welcome 23.5mm here also from yesterday's front, including a few parting salvoes early this morn - just 2mm shy of Nov's meager total. Interesting that Grey Lynn only managed 11mm.

[jamie]

should see some thunder around the north island today!

[spwill]

Sunshine is what we want to see today, the heating will get the local convergences going and bring the thunder chance.

A humid morning with the dewpoint 18C, currently 19C, sun trying hard to make an appearance

[Manukau heads obs]

wind is NE here again now
so could be convergence with the NW or sea breeze this afternoon