Wet NW Flow Over South Island for New Year

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 02/01/2013 12:49

Been all to the south really,we had a fair amount of sunshine this morning

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 02/01/2013 12:54

Some active storms out there atm

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Wed 02/01/2013 12:54

The rain continues;
17.3 degrees; 76% humidity;
intermittent rain-radar availability;
occasional rolls of thunder.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:05

having a nice shower at rolleston now, you could the see the weak CB thunderstorm out to the west before this shower moved over, so the storms have been coming close to the coast.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:06

12 degrees here with showers at times 6mm of welcome rain.

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:07

175mm here since 10pm last night.. and still rocketing down. Now, with thunder. Can't go South, can't go east, if this keeps up for a bit longer, nobody will be going North either.
You picked a good day to visit the West Coast Brian

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:19

Starting to look dark now to the west/sw,not far off hitting here soon.
Sounds rough over your way Dale

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:28

Rough is a pretty good word to describe it mate.. at least the roofies & treefellers won't be out of work for a while!

Manukau heads obs · Wed 02/01/2013 13:29

I see a report road cut off,haast,bridge washed away
That changes our plans...

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 02/01/2013 13:30

Few spots here over the past 20mins. Temp has shot down to 23 with this. Coolest since 9am. Arthurs Pass has had 200m since midnight, 318mm in the last 24hours and 415mm for the event to date. This was as of 12:15pm.

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:34

Some pretty Strong NE gusts hitting the side of the house here, No sign of any rain though. Things seem to be pretty dry up here with most lawns completely brown so some decent rain would be nice.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 02/01/2013 13:45

snowstormwatcher wrote:Some pretty Strong NE gusts hitting the side of the house here, No sign of any rain though. Things seem to be pretty dry up here with most lawns completely brown so some decent rain would be nice.

Ditto! - about the lawns that is.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:45

Im in Aruther's Pass atm. Flooding and small slips on the way in. Road still closed, rivers at the higest ive ever seen them. Will stick round abit longer.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:49

Raining here now slowly getting heavier with peeks of sunshine, dropped from 27C earlier to 23C now.
Awaiting to hear thunder as some of the lightning on the trackers looked fairly close even though it wont pick up every strike, nice smell out there with the warm grounds etc tropical like

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CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 02/01/2013 13:52

Storm Struck wrote:Raining here now slowly getting heavier with peeks of sunshine, dropped from 27C earlier to 23C now.
Awaiting to hear thunder as some of the lightning on the trackers looked fairly close even though it wont pick up every strike, nice smell out there with the warm grounds etc tropical like .

Yup big sporadic drops in the mix. Radar looks like it will give us a more prolonged spell of rain this time. Much needed!

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 02/01/2013 13:56

The next line on the radar further back if you look at the South Island as a whole, shows a new band or front, this will be the southerly switch so it should be turning southerly in Dunedin now.
This Rain is boosting the humidity up, and once this lot clears there will be surface moisture which could be good for something thundery later perhaps

katipo · Unread post by **katipo** » Wed 02/01/2013 14:07

Anyone got any photos of the Rakia River? I see it's running at an impressive 3500 cumecs at the moment.

http://ecan.govt.nz/SERVICES/ONLINE-SER ... eNo=168526

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 02/01/2013 14:11

Got photos of the Mt White bridge of the Waimak, was impressive. Will hit either the rakaia or the waimak gorge on the way home later

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Wed 02/01/2013 14:14

03Stormchaser wrote:Im in Aruther's Pass atm. Flooding and small slips on the way in. Road still closed, rivers at the higest ive ever seen them.

From ECan site, 225mm recorded there to 1pm today after 125mm yesterday.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 02/01/2013 14:16

Rain has stopped for now 1.2mm in the gauge, humidity up to 78% light winds and some sunny intervals again.
Some mix of CU pushing up too quite fast though, still about 22C.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 02/01/2013 14:42

Wow, that front has really blown up

Manukau heads obs · Wed 02/01/2013 15:09

We in murchision..elevated thunderstorms here

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 02/01/2013 15:44

Went to Rakaia to have a look, raging alright but still wee way off from bursting

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Wed 02/01/2013 16:21

Hasn't been so bad inland a bit here in Reefton. only recorded 25mm of rain so far today. it hasn't stopped at all, but it's been mostly light.
Quite a bit of thunder around for the last few hours. only one that was really close.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Wed 02/01/2013 17:08

Stay away from Rakaia Gorge Bridge:
http://www.police.govt.nz/news/updates/33830

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