Further heavy rain for Canterbury - April 28/29

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Further heavy rain for Canterbury - April 28/29

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Looks like next week sees a return to the wet, a low to the east if the SI could give Canterbury another shot of un-needed liquid. Not what you folks in christchurch want to hear I'm sure. Also snow to around 1000m do could be good for base building at the ski fields
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Looks to be more south canterbury . Far to warm yet for snow bases, ground still warm and frezzing levels still very high too.
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haven't even got close to a frost yet, ground temps warm, far to warm for a snow base to last
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Razor wrote:haven't even got close to a frost yet, ground temps warm, far to warm for a snow base to last
Yes ,even for here to still have flowering potatoes is really late for first hard frost,have had a light one though.
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I dare say we will have a decent frost on Sunday morning for inland Canterbury Richard, especially for your location...
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Bradley wrote:I dare say we will have a decent frost on Sunday morning for inland Canterbury Richard, especially for your location...
Could be,hoping this strong W wind carries on over night,but ,i suppose its gota come sometime :(
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Yes, another period of wet weather for the east coast of the SI.
Possibly, another 60mm for here from tomorrow until when the low moves off.
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Have given my Spies a "heads-up" 0_o
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Teeming rain here at present.
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Yes, bucketing down in Southbridge!
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Just on the edge of the rain here... Caught some mammatus and fallstreaks on the webcam earlier this morning.
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A lot of mammatus cloud about here as well,also patches of blue sky,some tall cb's developing to the south so i wouldn't be surprised if there was a clap of thunder down CHCH way at some stage.
The centre of the low now looks to be just off BP
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Raining and 7.6 degrees. Brrr!
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Absolutely pissing down here inland of mayfield and only 6 degrees, instant hand numbing when driving the bike
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Looks to be something nasty embedded on the rain radar right now to the south of Ashburton- warnings indicate embedded thunderstorms are expected?
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Yes the possibility of a clap of thunder or two embedded in this rain today, but it sure is wrapping into mid to south Canterbury.
Just moderate falls of rain here so far in the last hour or so, eased back to just lightly spitting fresh southerly and 9.8C.
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Thanks for that, Razor, that nasty bit sneaked up on me: have unplugged internet devices. It's awfully dark, need lights on indoors! Raining hard and 7.8deg.
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Strong westerly breeze sending rain billowing past.
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Heavier rain has arrived here, about 8-14mm/h and 8.5C with a light NW breeze.
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After some very strong gusts from the south, and a brief power interruption, the cloud has suddenly lifted and I can see a patch of dull blue sky to my south-east. Extraordinary piece of weather altogether.
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Wind looks like its a big issue down south Canterbury too with it gusting 90kph in timaru and reports of power outages- no mention of winds in the M/S warnings :-k
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Rain just started here now with next to no wind

Radar looks amazing with the centre of the low looking like its moved NW on to mid Canterbury
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The low centre has shifted back onto the plains by the looks over Mid Canterbury, it was just off Banks Peninnsula late morning but you can see the intense band over the city northwards then more stronger wrapping into south Canterbury.
I suspect as the low shifts back and pulls to the east again the back bone will get going again.
The rain sure has been heavy the past hour or so but back to moderate falls, no wind to speak of and 8.7C.
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Heavy rain now with huge drops,circulating rain band over head at the moment
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Yeah, it sort of eased off from about 4pm, and there was even some blue patches with the sun trying to shine through. Calm as if in the eye of the storm. Was NE but now a hint of a SE or Southerly is in the air. 8-o
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