Wet NW Flow Over South Island for New Year

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Wed 02/01/2013 23:39

Now 7.6 degrees just like winter and a 20 knot southerly to go with it!

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 02/01/2013 23:47

Short video from today, Mt White Bridge - Waimakariri River

Also another video, not overly exciting but showing minor flooding east of Arthur's Pass

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Thu 03/01/2013 00:13

the wind flags seem about right for the southerly change, we guessed the S would arrive around 1am, well its cretainly on our door step in the next half hour or so. going by the radar. so the models are pretty acurate

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 03/01/2013 04:43

Thanks for those video's,

wow ,sooo much water

Just had a look at the rain gauge and there's 36mm,going to be some very happy farmers around here.

Cleared over night and turned westerly and whats left of the southerly change is heading out over CHCH out to sea,so will we get showers today from heat build ups??

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Thu 03/01/2013 06:47

30mm of rain here and a good coating of snow on the hills down to as low as 800m. Sunny clearing skies this morning and rather cold on 5 degrees.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 03/01/2013 07:26

That's a big dump if rain for central otago!

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Thu 03/01/2013 07:48

Light snow on mt John near Tekapo this morning.

10mm of rain here overnight along with a very strong Northerly wind, its sunny this morning but still some showers over the western ranges.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 03/01/2013 07:50

Blue sky here in westport this morning
Going to check out the river later

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 03/01/2013 08:01

Looking at the clouds the atmosphere is already looking unstable this morning,currently getting a shower with some impressive build ups to the south

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Thu 03/01/2013 08:20

3cms snow overnight here in Naseby..unreal!

CHCH Weather Chaser · Thu 03/01/2013 08:27

9 degree start here this morning. First time I have had to put a jersey on in yonks!

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Thu 03/01/2013 08:35

Yep only 13 here this morning.. and the sun is out! Also 400mm in total for the event, MS were right on the ball with their rain predictions. The Grey River is an absolute monster this morning.

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Thu 03/01/2013 09:11

400mm for you on the coast Dale, and a paltry 60mm inland in Reefton.
I know that's not unheard of, but i wouldn't have thought the difference would be that significant.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 03/01/2013 09:16

Further north though is erecting,the worst
Of the rain,and duration,was further south

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Thu 03/01/2013 09:22

Ended up with 26mm here

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 03/01/2013 10:24

Well I am fresh back from 6 days in the Wilkin and Siberia rivers near Makarora in Mt Aspiring National Park

There was 542mm since Saturday afternoon going by the nearest rain gauge one valley to the north of us at the Young Landslide site
http://water.orc.govt.nz/WaterInfo/Site ... =YoungRain

And I can tell you the thunderstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday were seismic in size, I reckon the Siberia Hut was rattling similar in scale to a 4.5 quake with some of the thunderclaps- and lightning was damn close to hitting the vally floor around the hut given the proxmity. Absolutely insane few days, we extracted ourselves via helicopter yesterday. Nearly decided to drive home to ChCh up the coast but came via Lindis instead, luckily!

Have some vids and photos will try and post later

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Thu 03/01/2013 10:26

Yes some pics would be great!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 03/01/2013 21:23

TV1 news tonight had a clip of tourists in the snow on the Lindis Pass Road. Looked nice with blue skies and a decent coating.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 03/01/2013 22:43

Bit cool down at Twizel ( lake Benmore) this morning with 4C and a good coating of snow on the hills after a stormy night again in the camp, most people have now left after days of rain on and off and a night of thunder on tuesday so now just the hardy season campers with caravans left - good morning to get out in the boat fishing tho.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 10/01/2013 10:33

Razor wrote:Well I am fresh back from 6 days in the Wilkin and Siberia rivers near Makarora in Mt Aspiring National Park

There was 542mm since Saturday afternoon going by the nearest rain gauge one valley to the north of us at the Young Landslide site
http://water.orc.govt.nz/WaterInfo/Site ... =YoungRain

And I can tell you the thunderstorms on Tuesday and Wednesday were seismic in size, I reckon the Siberia Hut was rattling similar in scale to a 4.5 quake with some of the thunderclaps- and lightning was damn close to hitting the vally floor around the hut given the proxmity. Absolutely insane few days, we extracted ourselves via helicopter yesterday. Nearly decided to drive home to ChCh up the coast but came via Lindis instead, luckily!

Have some vids and photos will try and post later

A week later....finally got the computer working properly. Three short youtubes attached, one of the intense rain on 1/1/13 at Siberia Hut that lasted nearly 2 days and was accompanied by remarkable thunder. The other two are in the chopper flying down the engorged Wilkin and 'lake' Makarora. Enjoy

I'd imagine yesterday was an action replay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CalrY8GL70

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2r1V6CoZtw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... hQgcHpmrzk

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