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Wind has been picking up since the rain cleared

My Silverdale Spy reports: "a good storm today, more to come tonight; power off twice, candles and torches at the ready".

44 knot gusts here now...from the SSE,,,same windspeed as Whanaporoa I see
baro dropping fast still

Baro is dropping allright, the coal in the shed sounds like a bowl of rice bubbles. Big pressure gradient incoming.

Interesting seeing the power outages on the vector site, probably most wx related http://www.vector.co.nz/outages

Dale Small wrote:Baro is dropping allright, the coal in the shed sounds like a bowl of rice bubbles. Big pressure gradient incoming.

That's an interesting observation: due to ?

"Lightning, and power off in Silverdale... sounding worse"...

Baro here has leveled out since 4pm - risen slightly actually.
quite breezy as Dale mentioned. recorded a 37.1 km/hr gust earlier, which is actually my 2nd highest recorded since 2011.

baro down to 987 in Auckland already I see...I am 2 hpa higher (thats alot in a short distance)
and the low center is still north of the city...

A little lower out in the Gulf... Whangaparoa down to 985hPa and Mokohinau Islands 984hPa.

Meanwhile.... it's a steady 1019hPa down here, might drop a little soon!

986.6 here in Glenfield. Can hear stuff blowing around in the street. Vector have reported lines down in the street opposite mine, but the part I can see out the window still has power.

Puhoi village is cut off from flooding, tide is going to be super high tonight, was at takapuna beach about an hour ago and beach was covered, water coming onto the car park at boat ramp.
Video from an hour ago http://youtu.be/ofoJsR7E6z0

I wondered about that... High tide about 11pm?

I see Jamies place is gusting up to 87km/hr (not surprsing due to the very high anomometer placement).
Up to 57km/hr here and increasing it seems.

Yep High tide at 11, 3.1m going to head back out there then. Wind still seems to be picking up here and slowly moving to the east

temperature rising too ...14.5c here now,,,
but Tim is on 16c?
wow, I see Ricky is nearly on 16C too...that tropical air mass that was brought down...and getting real gusty in the auckand central area...75kmh gusts at Ricky's place now..

That wind has certainly increased tonight, gusting 62 km/h here now from the ESE

Quite a pressure gradient between Auckland and here atm. 994hpa here and 986 in Auckland.

Tornado Tim wrote:Quite a pressure gradient between Auckland and here atm. 994hpa here and 986 in Auckland.

Center of the low is currently crossing the city! According to WeatherWatch.co.nz latest facebook update!

Actually we're seeing both! Some rising, some sinking still. Sinking where I am (west)

WOW i have just got internet and checked it out. Had a call to my wife too.

Like Tim said getting up near 90km/h. Power went out just after 10pm though so no more readings for the rest of the night from me. The weather station has been blown over too she said. Wind is seperate so its only rain that i will not record. All the new trees we planted are only staked in the ground for a westerly wind. Opps!!! Wife said they nearly snapping off.

Sounds like a ripper storm. Gutted im in the clear blue skies and warm weather of NSW!

jamie wrote:...........

Sounds like a ripper storm. Gutted im in the clear blue skies and warm weather of NSW!

C'est la guerre...

jamie wrote:The weather station has been blown over too she said. Wind is seperate so its only rain that i will not record. All the new trees we planted are only staked in the ground for a westerly wind. Opps!!! Wife said they nearly snapping off.

Oh no thats got to suck, what did you have the station mounted on? Was it the metal tripod?
I was considering getting one when I bought my station in 09 but then I thought it might not stand to a strong wind.
I am glad I used a concreted fence post now!

Crossing fingers and toes that nothing on your station is broken.....

Philip Duncan wrote:Actually we're seeing both! Some rising, some sinking still. Sinking where I am (west)

Yes indeed. I don't know if anyone saw ones news tonight, but they said, obviously from MS, that the worst conditions for Auckland would be around midnight, which is when the centre of the low was predicted to cross, bringing calmer conditions! What are your thoughts on this?