Blog on Milford Sound rainfall

[igaquo1]

Hi all

For those that don't follow Wunderground's Weather Extremes blog:

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/weathe ... trynum=211

regards
Jeremy

[Manukau heads obs]

just out of interest
I recently was at a trivial pursuits game
the question was, what is the wettest area in NZ
I said the westcoast

but wikipedia said fiordland
I then googled and a niwa article said south westland...
and futher to that, the wikipedia article was more about the wettest in habitacated location...milford sound

[Manukau heads obs]

from that article above:

Although the site is considered New Zealand’s wettest with a long POR (since 1930), another location several hundred miles further north, Cropp at Waterfall, has now officially been recognized as the new ‘wet spot’ for the nation with an average of 11,516 mm (453.38”) over the POR of 1982-2011. Cropp at Waterfall also now holds the national 24-hour precipitation record with 758 mm (29.84”) on December 27-28, 1989. In 1998 the site measured 16,617 mm (654.21”) of precipitation, the national record for wettest calendar year. The site is an automated rain gauge situated near a waterfall on the Cropp River, which is a tributary of the Whitcombe River in New Zealand’s West Coast District. This is now recognized as one of the wettest locations on earth.

[Nev]

I recently was at a trivial pursuits game
the question was, what is the wettest area in NZ

It's obviously a silly question, because there are many ways to define 'wettest' and 'area'.