Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Just had a flash and a very close thunder boom. Still raining steadily and winds very gusty.
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any reports of snow in or near chch? very cold and raining heavily so....
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Only received 15mm here in Bryndwr so far with this event, went for a walk to the Diary before not actually alot of rain falling just very blustery. Although lastest few runs on the radar indicate that possibly the worst for chch will be from now on.
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Was that just then Tony or about 20 minutes ago? you can see the low defined wrapping the southerly in on the radars now just starting to show.
Temperature is starting to drop more so now down to 6.8C, southerly ramping up abit more with very strong gusts at times borderline gale force.
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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SW quite gusty here and you can hear it, in an Orion sort of sense - "Booming down the flue of the AGA" :smile:
Nice to hear of the thunder reports from North Canterbury :smile:
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Jasestorm wrote:Was that just then Tony or about 20 minutes ago?
It was about 15 mins before I posted, around 3.50pm
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48mm of rain,temp slowly dropping away.Ashburton on 5.5 degrees.Timaru only 4.1.
Snow level could drop to lower levels than forecast.
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43mm here, was snowing heavily before but now its back to rain.
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Thats significant for Ashburton Deano. Could get 60mm + before shes over. 20mm here. That wind is howling at times. I heard a bang about 20mins ago so went to look on the road and a 30km/h sign with weights on the stand has blown over into the neighbours front fence.
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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baro still dropping here
and wind slowly increasing again, getting back up to severe gale region again here now
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temp slowly dropping in Christchurch.... 6.4 degrees. snow level dropping?
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Radar is showing that the movement of the rain bands is slowly turning and coming from the southwest
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Thats significant for Ashburton Deano. Could get 60mm + before shes over. 20mm here. That wind is howling at times. I heard a bang about 20mins ago so went to look on the road and a 30km/h sign with weights on the stand has blown over into the neighbours front fence.
Yes the rain reminds me of living in Cairns except that its 25 degrees colder.
Wind picking up now!!
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finally met service have updated the auckland marine forecast to show gusts to 55 knots instead of 40 knots for the harbours and gulf...4 hours after the gales started...bit late .....everything pointed to it being stronger than what was forecasted
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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bloody pissing down in chch. heaviest its been all day, lots of surface flooding holy sh*t
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Down to 3.9 degrees here,must be snowing up your way Orion?
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gusting to over 120kmh here at the moment, with cloudy periods
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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Deano wrote:Down to 3.9 degrees here,must be snowing up your way Orion?
No, it looked promising with a flurry of sleety stuff when I posted earlier this afternoon but right now it's 3.1 degrees, windy and just raining.
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jamie.haultain wrote:Wasn't far off in my guess. Was 86.9 in that squall. That's our 2nd highest gist since the station went in in 2008 or so
Yes that was a strong squall, my station wasnt far behind yours: got a gust to 80.4km/hr! That broke my all time record!
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It's been an insane windy day today. Some of the strongest wind I have ever seen here
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Gusting over 90km here now. Just had a gust of 91.7 which I believe is our new all time record for here.
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Peak gust at Auckland airport today has been 50kts (93km/h).
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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so...... predictions for the rest of the night for Christchurch
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Re: Predicted "Bomb" system 12-14 Oct

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checked the metservice temp. its at 4C or some what around that temp, wonder if it might drop anymore
Because as you say deano that snow level may come down bit lower then expected, if it does we really need it to happen now while we still have that moisture and rain band still ok.
Once that low moves away its not going to take long to clear tonight.

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mikestormchaser wrote:checked the metservice temp. its at 4C or some what around that temp, wonder if it might drop anymore
Because as you say deano that snow level may come down bit lower then expected, if it does we really need it to happen now while we still have that moisture and rain band still ok.
Once that low moves away its not going to take long to clear tonight.

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