Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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There was a group of heavy showers that moved down the manukau
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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95mm total so far out of this. Was pretty windy too. Lots of branches down all over the place. Got absolutely soaked below the belt. Gore Tex kept my core dry and warm though. Will be looking at the leggings now.
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Steady moderate rain here since about noon. 12mm so far with not a breath of wind.
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Wind is developing into quite a story here on the West Coast.
Westport still cut-off and power out in large areas and won't be connected until the morning at the earliest.
Several roads in and around Greymouth also closed, houses damaged etc.
Cobden (a suburb of Greymouth hit badly in 2008) is cut-off. Can't enter or leave as a house (or a garage I'm not sure) is thought to be about to collapse on the road.

while here in Reefton there is barely a breath of wind.
highest gust of 18.7 km/hr recorded earlier today.

Seen numbers quoted for of the ~1000 weather related emergency calls received up til 4pm 230 have been from the West Coast, while 290 from Auckland. When you consider the population of the West Coast compared to Auckland, that tells you that this is affecting a very large area and a lot of people on the coast.
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Anyone in the Fairlie through to Tekapo area tonight? I am in Queenstown now but came through the Tekapo basin this afternoon with rain/sleet and very cold.
Currently a bitter southerly here I am thinking this cold edge will catch an advective event for a few hours tonight before the more moist sub tropical air shifts south, maybe a dusting in the Mckensie Basin.
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Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Wild day! No chasing today as I had to work, pouring concrete... At snells beach, it was a dodgy drive up there to say the least.. I missed the high tide action but I took a few aftermath pics from around devonport.
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/befxg4pqsr1a3nn/IPf6vg3-Nk

Edit, amazingly there was very little damage to the trimaran, the wall came out far worse off.
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30mm so far here in 6 hours and still hammering down.
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Family in Karamea (North Buller) report power has been out most of the day and tree damage in the area.

21mm and light winds so far here in Burwood
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video of a large pine tree being blown over and onto a house in Nelson this afternoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvHv3w6cgJE
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Reminds me if a similar video from a few years back in a big easterly
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Rain radar shows scattered showers starting to pop up for upper NI
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Anyone know why the band of blue on the Christchurch radar is not moving inland but staying close to the coast about the city
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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System not delivering anywhere near the rainfall rate some experts were forecasting, would be very surprised to see over 40mm at the airport at this rate...
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Bradley wrote:System not delivering anywhere near the rainfall rate some experts were forecasting, would be very surprised to see over 40mm at the airport at this rate...
26mm and falling heavily here near Cashmere. Looks like plenty more yet
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Heavier rain has reached here - now 17mm today with 6mm in the last hour. Temps rising slowly and very little wind.
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Finally some wind here now after a maximum gust of 15km/h all day! Its been dead still really. Heavy rain in the last hour or so. 28mm now for the event, with perhaps double that before this is done!
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Had the worst flight up here to Auckland,it was so rough.
Called our a friend near home and there's been over 70mm so far.
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Interesting weather with the storm surges in Auckland and very strong winds down the West Coast.
Been calm or light winds from the SW all day which makes sense because of the intense anticyclone moving east to the south of us. Raining here continuous from 11.47am. :-)
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Some fairly serious flooding issues already in the usual areas of town. Nervous night ahead, remember the ground was well waterlogged before this system so it won't take as much as last time. Very windy now too suddenly
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Some distant lightning observed to the east from a storm over the Coromandel Ranges
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Yep, friend in Whitianga just posted a lightning clip from there, strobe fest by the looks!
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Quite wild out there now, heavy horizontal rain with wind gusting to 65km/h. Also the temperature is the warmest its been all day on 13 degrees after reaching a high of 10 earlier!
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65mm here, most falling between 2pm and 8pm Surface flooding around SH1 north of Chch and on some local roads around Amberley.
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It looked very moist along the coast, there Tony, judging by the radar.
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Re: Ex-TC Ita affecting NZ - April 17-19 (Thu-Sat)

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Have to post this one for posterity... impressive system!! :cool:
(Wind and streamlines at 850)

Nelson video is awesome too!
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