Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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snowstormwatcher wrote:Mt Dobson has had 50cm of snow so far.
Just been out and there's quite a bit of surface flooding around the place. 8mm of rain in the last hour.
Been mostly rain for Mt Hutt,reporting 6cm at the lodge area.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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How high is the Mt Hutt lodge area Deano? might not be as high as Dobson which is 1700m.

Raining steadily here at about 5-6mm an hour. 81mm so far.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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snowstormwatcher wrote:How high is the Mt Hutt lodge area Deano? might not be as high as Dobson which is 1700m.

Raining steadily here at about 5-6mm an hour. 81mm so far.
Thats a good drop of rain for you.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Lodge and carpark is 1600 metres.Reports now of snow falling higher up.
Steady light rain here 9.8 degrees,getting close to 30mm from my gauge.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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That's 50mm recorded here since lunchtime yesterday. Currently averaging about 3mm/h.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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40mm here now. Nothing overly heavy though, just persistent light rain - moderate at times. Looks like we have seen the last of the rain for a while as nothing coming in from the sea anymore.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Still been bugger all rain here,could even see the sun through the thinnish high cloud
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Yep still only 21mm here and stopped for the last 2 hours.
Most rain gauges north of here have only 4-5mm whole day so far.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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I see Rangiora's cloud base is only 46m,its at least 300m here
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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dunno what it is in chch
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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joliver657 wrote:dunno what it is in chch
The only weather station i can find that shows cloud base in CHCH is 140m in Fendalton
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Richard wrote:
joliver657 wrote:dunno what it is in chch
The only weather station i can find that shows cloud base in CHCH is 140m in Fendalton
im in burnside so close enough
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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100mm here now. Still coming down heavy but not as much as earlier.

Had to go down to Albury earlier on and the flooding was starting to get serious down there with parts of the road underwater and rivers and creeks flowing though normally dry paddocks.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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There has been alot of rain down there snowstormwatcher, have been keeping an eye on river levels and rain gauges in the area.

Since yesterday morning, 168.5mm at Geraldine forest, 103.5 in Blandswood (foot of Peel Forest) and 165 at Mount Frances.

Opihi has gone from something like 3 or 4 cubic metres per second yesterday morning to currently 948 cubic metres per second and is still rising, staggering. I'm not sure what levels constitue a really high level and will begin to flood surrounding areas but that's gotta be high.

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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Thunder wrote:
Opihi has gone from something like 3 or 4 cubic metres per second yesterday morning to currently 948 cubic metres per second and is still rising, staggering. I'm not sure what levels constitue a really high level and will begin to flood surrounding areas but that's gotta be high.

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I drove across the Opihi at the Fairlie bridge a couple of hours ago and its the highest Ive seen it in the 5 years Ive been here.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Not surprised there's been that much snowstormwatcher,radar been showing consistent blue all day.

Rains got heavy here now which doesn't show up much on the radar.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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No action down Omarama way. All we've had is on-again-off-again light drizzle since yesterday. Some wind, but certainly nothing approaching storm strengths, and it's calm again now.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Just the norm for here really maximum 20mm so far, intermix of light rain and thick drizzle but some periods of moderate rain through out the day.
Not a major event north of Rakaia this one, wont be more than another 10-15mm in the next few days.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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I see Tauranga has had at least 320mm rain this month
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Sounds nasty round Fairlie, was just through there yesterday morning on the road south. Boring weather here in Dunedin tonight
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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No rain at all here overnight. Not sure why Metservice are persisting with heavy falls easing for Christchurch. 43mm for the event. Stars are out.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Been some heavy showers here over night,so could be one of those kinda days coming up.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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A further 10mm here overnight Making a total of 117mm for the event so far.
Still raining but only light/mod with the odd heavier burst.
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Re: Heavy Rain & Sth'n Snow, Deep Tasman Low - Jul 29-Aug 3

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Looks like the airmass over northern areas will be a bit more moist in the next fews days.
Isolated pulse thunderstorms look possible tomorrow.
There could be a heavy rain risk for Bay of Plenty Friday or Saturday, models hinting at that.
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