Rain and thunderstorms for St. Patricks Day

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

The southerly knocking on the backdoor now but will it be productive? On and off light rain here today,the first for ages, well since some drizzle on the 7th.

[Manukau heads obs]

just had some nice heavy tropical type rain here (with the high dew point)
that developed over the Waitakere ranges and moved south over us
(another 5mm, so nearly 20mm here for the day..getting up to usefull amounts..especialy with more to come later tomorrow)

[Manukau heads obs]

I see another heavy line of rain moving over the Auckland city area
and looks like the next line of showers is getting more organised too

this humid air mass is dropping its load finally over the hills around the area, and on the NE/NW wind convergence line (and the shower lines have slowed down in forward speed alot now too as the low center has filled alot and moved right onto us
good stuff
we might get another 10mm yet overnight

[sw_windbow]

Dunedin has 7.6mm at University and 10.0mm at Pine Hill.

Metservice says several more mms on the way overnight.

[Orion]

Southerly rising here - now a fresh to strong breeze - and rain getting heavier.
13.7 degrees.

[Storm Struck]

Still dry here apart from some light spots coming in, the rain from earlier has since dried up on the ground surfaces.
Cooler southerly picking up but an impressive looking rain band over south canterbury coming up some quite heavy falls in there .

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Cooler southerly picking up but an impressive looking rain band over south canterbury coming up some quite heavy falls in there .

Still going in NW to SE fashion judging by the radars wth lots now falling over the sea.
Need some uumph to move it up here

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yes John, Models (3hourly) have showed this to be the story for last day or so.

[Orion]

As at an hour ago, there had been 6mm rain here.

[bmo]

Its finally raining here

[Michael]

make the most of it,looks as if nothing on the 10 day forecast till the trough/s from the cooling south tasman undermines the tasman highs.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

make the most of it,looks as if nothing on the 10 day forecast till the trough/s from the cooling south tasman undermines the tasman highs.

Yes, I'm conserving rain water

[Vertigo]

very welcome rain today. thank you, cyclone sandra!

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yay measurable rain finally falling!! Lets hope we can get 10mm or more from this.

[Chris Raine]

13mm in my raingauge in Oamaru easing now clearing to west

[tich]

Rain just started near Akaroa.

[Dean.]

Some brief heavy rain from 6pm here...moving offshore quicker than forecast though.

[Storm Struck]

Only just started here half an hour ago and just light thick rain at the moment, the band seems to be breaking as it heads north so maybe not as much from this lot as first thought.
Although tomorrows nights rain return should be better up this way.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Well. The rain did deliver but the thunderstorms didn't.
Most places got a good drop today, thanks to ST. Patrick, whereas some didn't.
Imagine if it rained Guiness, or Murphys, or Beamish?
If it rained Smithwicks, or some that other ale I tried in Ireland last year, I would run away
Slainte

[melja]

Only 2.1mm here so far looks like parts of the north island did better than expected but not sure the low lands of the west coast did vey well out of it tho with my folks at kumara only up to 14mm so no much help for the water tank with around 680L gone into it and 20000L to go before full.

[Skywatcher]

Heavy rain peaking at over 50mm/h woke me up then after it eased off saw a flash and heard a rumble of thunder about 15 minutes ago.

[Brassnz]

31mm in last 24hrs. A good start.

[Chris Raine]

Another 7mm overnight from the southerly , mainly from showers

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Heavy rain peaking at over 50mm/h woke me up then after it eased off saw a flash and heard a rumble of thunder about 15 minutes ago.

25mm fell here with 22mm since midnight. I was woken by that rain also and heard 2 very long, quite loud rumbles of thunder at 445am ish.

[Richard]

Getting those big rumbles around the hills here now and starting to piss down too