Possible Polar Blast coming this weekend 4th to 7th May

[Razor]

Dry here, but like most pundits I expect reasonable to significant rain here in Chch and wider Canty later overnight and tomorrow

[Richard]

30mm rain here so far.

Wow,already? only just started to rain here in the last hour

[Orion]

30mm rain here so far.

Still raining?

I think it's light drizzle now, being blown every which way by the wind.

[CWUweather]

I dont really know what going on here. had brief light rain/drizzle about 2 hours ago and nothing since!!

[mikestormchaser]

just got home from chch from being out for a lovely meal.
Come home to heavier rain in rolleston, interesting the SE wind direction and BP shelters the city alot yet in rolleston we are far enough to get out of that sheltering affect, good for snow then lol

[CWUweather]

It is actually deloping significantly southwest of the city, but not moving in this direction

[Storm Struck]

As i say what you need to watch for is activity out in Pegasus Bay because thats the general area that its going to start streaming in from soon.
Looks like some good thunderstorms in the rain band about Blenhiem at the moment, and maybe offshore from Kaikoura.
Still dry here with 12C and the station now reads a positive SE wind direction.

[CWUweather]

As i say what you need to watch for is activity out in Pegasus Bay because thats the general area that its going to start streaming in from soon.
Looks like some good thunderstorms in the rain band about Blenhiem at the moment, and maybe offshore from Kaikoura.
Still dry here with 12C and the station now reads a positive SE wind direction.

Im suprised by that... and soon as in... before midnight?

[Richard]

Looks like some good thunderstorms in the rain band about Blenhiem at the moment, and maybe offshore from Kaikoura.

Looks that way but nothing is showing on Blitzortung

[CWUweather]

Should start to see development to our east soon, Hopefully!! ahaha

[CWUweather]

reasonably windy here now, just started to pick up!

[mikestormchaser]

good thunderstorm gone through blenhiem, as jase mentiond earlier, i can confirm that now as i have been chatten to a girl who lives in blenhiem, very heavy rain has accompanied those storms.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Yes. I see that on the Radar, Mikey.
Rain now coming in from the SE as appossed to moving SW.
Looks as though the Shift is coming into play

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Looks like some good thunderstorms in the rain band about Blenhiem at the moment, and maybe offshore from Kaikoura.

Looks that way but nothing is showing on Blitzortung

Must be only in the cloud as Blitzortung only shows CG strikes as I believe?

[CWUweather]

Yes. I see that on the Radar, Mikey.
Rain now coming in from the SE as appossed to moving SW.
Looks as though the Shift is coming into play

It's about time haha

[Richard]

Blowing a shocking gale here at the moment,bloody hard to get any sleep.

[sw_windbow]

4.4mm so far today, 44.4mm yesterday for an event total of 48.8. Still coming down at about 1.5mm per hour. Not much wind. Not very cold.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Gusting to 50km/h this morning with rain. 25mm so far and driving rain.

[Richard]

Only had 6mm so far,mainly just this strong wind

[Orion]

Raining, very dark, windy, 5.5 degrees, 1005.2 hPa at present.

[Orion]

Total 40mm rain to this moment.

[Dean.]

48mm in the gauge here

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Just shy of 40mm here now.

[Skywatcher]

Over 40mm recorded for the event so far... surface flooding in the usual places.

[Orion]

Raining, windy, has warmed up to 5.7 degrees;
1009.3 hPa.