Further heavy rain for Canterbury

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 28/04/2014 17:29

Another very dark cloud approaching from the south, rain starting to sound heavier again, and I might have heard thunder...

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 28/04/2014 18:01

Orion wrote:Another very dark cloud approaching from the south, rain starting to sound heavier again, and I might have heard thunder...

Looking ominous on the radar

Bradley · Unread post by **Bradley** » Mon 28/04/2014 18:25

17mm here so far today in West Melton and currently 6.7C...

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 28/04/2014 18:29

Round two has just hit,over 50mm for the day so far,heavy rain and blustery winds currently.Must be approaching record rainfall for April for this area!

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Mon 28/04/2014 19:07

pretty decent flooding in Timaru.
Metservice only recorded 22mm but the pictures show it must have been a bit more in some places.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/ne ... -out-power

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Mon 28/04/2014 19:31

looks to be staying well south of Chch thank god

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 28/04/2014 19:49

Wow radar looks impressive,and creeping north with the low

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 28/04/2014 20:08

Deano wrote:Round two has just hit,over 50mm for the day so far,heavy rain and blustery winds currently.Must be approaching record rainfall for April for this area!

Yes, there was an interesting article of the news tonight about Canterbury Crop farmers facing crop failures because of the continuing damp weather, also North Otago farmers are feeling the same fate because of the wet weather.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Mon 28/04/2014 21:03

heavy showers here in lincoln atm, interesting to see that frontal line coming up into Christchurch to. raining hard here now!

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 28/04/2014 21:21

Interesting radar picture alright. I hope Ch'ch won't get too much rain... Over 60mm here for the day, so far.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 28/04/2014 21:31

Raining steadily here from 9pm, with a wee bit of a wind upsurge from the SW.
Slight increase in external temperature but slight decrease in internal temperature?

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Mon 28/04/2014 21:55

We have had heavy rain in Oamaru since 0600 hours today ,Rain finally eased about 1830 hours up to 50-70mm on the coastal strip in North Otago along with strong to gale southerly winds .There has been significant surface flooding , flooded houses which have had to be sandbagged . Houses and basements had had to be pumped out by the Fire Service .Civil Defence volunteers have been deployed at Five Forks , Kakanui , Duntroon and Palmerston and Oamaru . Civil Defence activated their Emergency Operation Centre to coordinate the response with emergency services and the Waitaki District Council along with the roading contractors and NZTA . State Highway One at Hilderthorpe was closing tonight as water was across the highway , Diversions up Seven Mile road are in place . Many district roads are closed and some rural communities isolated . By morning we expect the State Highway 's to open after an assessment but some district roads may not be reopened for some days . The district is so saturated it will takes weeks to dry out and this is the wrong time of the year for drying out processes!

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 28/04/2014 22:05

I'm flying to chch tomorrow morning at 6.30. Should be a bumpy ride with all the showers around. I'm staying at Lincoln for two nights. Think I'm free Wednesday night if anyone is keen to catchup.

Hope there isn't flooding for chch for a third time in 2014.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 28/04/2014 22:14

Happy landings, jamie

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Tue 29/04/2014 06:07

A lot of bad surface flooding around the city again this morning. Seems to almost be the norm this Autumn.

Gary McConnochie · Unread post by **Gary McConnochie** » Tue 29/04/2014 06:48

90 mm in Ashburton for this event so far!!!

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Tue 29/04/2014 07:02

Im around 50mm here in Rangiora.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Tue 29/04/2014 07:06

Only 21mm here,so,slowly starting to get wetter about this area now,water table has got a long way to come up before i would call a true wet period.

CWUweather · Unread post by **CWUweather** » Tue 29/04/2014 07:07

67mm here now for the event, still raining hard, but this last band is just hanging on. Maybe 75-80mm by the time we finish up.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 29/04/2014 08:19

Hopefully the worst has passed, this event has delivered the worst flooding of the lot so far around here (Cashmere/ Cracroft). Hate to think what it is like in other areas

CWUweather · Unread post by **CWUweather** » Tue 29/04/2014 08:39

Razor wrote:Hopefully the worst has passed, this event has delivered the worst flooding of the lot so far around here (Cashmere/ Cracroft). Hate to think what it is like in other areas

Worst has definitely passed. Will be like this for most of the day now I would think.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 29/04/2014 08:52

Lots of surface flooding on plains as I flew in. Didn't get much of a view tho as the cloud was so low.

CWUweather · Unread post by **CWUweather** » Tue 29/04/2014 08:59

jamie wrote:Lots of surface flooding on plains as I flew in. Didn't get much of a view tho as the cloud was so low.

How bumpy was it?

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Tue 29/04/2014 09:11

Not at all. Lots of dog legs around the cells tho. We zig zagged all the way down. Added about 20 mins onto our flight

CWUweather · Unread post by **CWUweather** » Tue 29/04/2014 09:16

Probably for the best. Sure is windy down here today, and good old torrential drizzle at the moment.

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