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

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 18/04/2014 12:46

David wrote:This BOP site near Te Puke shows 48mm in an hour between 8am and 9am this morning
http://monitoring.boprc.govt.nz/Monitor ... ?point=600

Just noticed that this station recorded 29mm in the 10 minutes from 8.10am to 8.20am. That is some seriously intense rain

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Fri 18/04/2014 13:06

einzack wrote: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.

Very sorry to hear about damage in Westland: any recent news, and what is the outlook?

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 18/04/2014 13:12

Be happy if the system remained as the status quo now as its a sunny warm and quite calm day now but feel for those in nelson,westport and Canterbury as had lots of rain.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 18/04/2014 13:43

Torrential rain here

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 18/04/2014 13:46

I'm stuck in traffic on sh1 at tirau. Looks really untestable everywhere.

Must be some major flash flooding in BOP with that very slow moving torrential rain

bmo · Unread post by **bmo** » Fri 18/04/2014 15:39

Currently a thunderstorm around the Kaipara Harbour area, good steady rain and very loud rumbles.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 18/04/2014 15:42

Convection looking stronger out to W of Auckland. Decent looking cb now.

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Fri 18/04/2014 15:52

Edge of the CB crossing my place at Glenfield. Suddenly went rather dark. Had some signal issues with Sky, too.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Fri 18/04/2014 15:55

Thunder just to the west in Whangaparoa. Quite a nice line if convection.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Fri 18/04/2014 16:30

68mm for the event with the last of the rain finishing here just after midday.

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 18/04/2014 16:46

Turned out to be a lovely day here, plenty of sunshine, min 19C and max 24C. Too humid though!
The lawn is growing like crazy after that 50mm of rain we got yesterday.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 18/04/2014 17:04

Back to very moist drizzle again. 60.2mm for the event so far here.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 18/04/2014 17:08

Thunder and lightning here this afternoon
14mm of rain

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 18/04/2014 17:25

The roads out of Auckland today were very congested so no chance of a chase south or north. The distant thunderstorm tops over southwest Waikato looked great.
Watched a nice Cb line develop over West Auckland this afternoon, no thunder heard by me but I see there have been storms along that line. photo

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Fri 18/04/2014 18:19

96mm here for this event.

CHCH Weather Chaser · Fri 18/04/2014 18:27

Just when I thought it was over, heavy lashing drizzle is back again! I cant believe the comparison of this YTD rainfall with last years. At this stage last year 115mm and this year YTD is over 380mm!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 18/04/2014 19:02

Yes, it has been quite wet especially the last coupla months

Very lush and we've getting lots of mushrooms as a result

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Fri 18/04/2014 19:10

I've had 63mm for the event so far - only 276mm YTD here. I see on TV3 that the "Port Hills" recorded a gust of 133km/h today. Power was out for an hour here from 4am due to a tree on the lines.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 18/04/2014 20:33

Report of flooding in Ohope
Eastern BOP

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 18/04/2014 20:42

Yes, the Whakatane area in the firing line at the moment.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 18/04/2014 21:14

Quite significant rain here in chch has set in again

Bradley · Unread post by **Bradley** » Fri 18/04/2014 23:01

57mm here for the event, 14.8C for a max after 10.8C for a max yesterday, have to say I am getting a little bit over this weather over the past 2 weeks!!

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sat 19/04/2014 06:29

Yesterday David wrote:
David wrote:This BOP site near Te Puke shows 48mm in an hour between 8am and 9am this morning
http://monitoring.boprc.govt.nz/Monitor ... ?point=600
Just noticed that this station recorded 29mm in the 10 minutes from 8.10am to 8.20am. That is some seriously intense rain

Quite a downpour! Not too far off the all-time national 10-minute rainfall record of 34mm recorded in Tauranga, almost to the day, on April 17, 1948.

112mm over the last 2 days for both Tauranga Aero and Whakatane Aero, including that 29.6mm in Tauranga for the hour to 8am yesterday.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sat 19/04/2014 06:30

On Thursday einzack wrote:video of a large pine tree being blown over and onto a house in Nelson this afternoon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvHv3w6cgJE

Great video!

Also on Thursday was this close-call on SH4 about 20km SE of Taumarunui…

Colin Baker - 'Falling Trees during strong winds from Cyclone Ita. Two minutes I wont forget in a hurry'

Manukau heads obs · Sat 19/04/2014 06:59

Reports of flooding in whakatane...and more
Rain heading their way
Interstingly with the heavy shower line we got
Yesterday
Was due to wind convergence
There was a fresh NNE blowing
Down the harbour
But over the land here the wind was much lighter

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