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looks to be around the cable bay area (i.e on a hill in that area?)
Huia hill it says in this thread...?
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It's about 3 km NE of Kaeo at about 385m asl (not quite as high as the Warkworth radar at 452m asl).
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it seems I let out a bit to much info in my previous post, please could any of you that saw itnot spread the info :(
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wonder what the hold up is with this one? seems like the BOP one came online much faster once they had it running.
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Agreed, it did. Seem to recall they had issues getting mains on up there. Initial testing was done using the engine alternator.
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Everything about this installation has taken longer, the three previous installs combined were quicker than this one :(

With this current system in force, would be nice to have the pictures available - instead of having to rely on an occasional tweet from metservice. This is from a tweet at around quarter to nine this morning.
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update via M/S FB showing the latest image :)
looks great
and that it will be online soon
just doing final testing
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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advo ... d=11290314

Formal opening is on the 28th of this month - not sure how/if that will correspond with the images being publicly available.
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Seems to me that we already are seeing it...
Embedded/overlayed in the Auckland one
As tbe rain over inlabd northland has been picked up much better now
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the rain is from relatively high based cloud...
came over the coromandel ranges today and only the very tops were in the cloud
so hence radar showing up the rain well over the hills of northland
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I would love to know what's taking so long for this to go live.
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Me too, knowing that the thing is working but not being able to see it with the weather we have had last week and at present is frustrating in the extreme.
There has been the odd pic posted on twitter and facebook so we know metservice are using it, shouldn't those who are wading around their farms/backyards/kitchens also have some better warning of when more is coming?

(gonna stop ranting now before I really say what I think :-# )
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Probably the radar should be working OK when the anticyclones start moving over the area.? :rolleyes:
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Today is the day… apparently?

'New MetService weather radar for Northland' - TVNZ
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the M/S FB page has a blessing for first thing this morning
(with no rain in sight, LOL ! )
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Not according to the last sentence of that article. I'm confused.
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We can but hope :>

A couple of mentions on Facebook and Twitter this morning about how it has been 'blessed', today is the "formal opening", not sure how that coincides with showing the images to the public.

Hopefully might have more info after today - I'm taking a little drive North as I have an invite to the opening.
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jamie wrote:Not according to the last sentence of that article. I'm confused.
That's very confusing...
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Why is it confusing? Keep in mind that the article was posted 9 July...
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I think Jamie was referring to this morning's TVNZ story. ;-)

I'm guessing Aug 1st (Friday) for the website update.
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David wrote:Why is it confusing? Keep in mind that the article was posted 9 July...
" Published: 5:44AM Monday July 28, 2014 Source: ONE News "

Now it's even more confusing :)

When I visited the site last month they were still waiting for Chorus to hook up the fibre link, were setting up the backup satellite link.
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iomkiwi wrote:
David wrote:Why is it confusing? Keep in mind that the article was posted 9 July...
" Published: 5:44AM Monday July 28, 2014 Source: ONE News "

Now it's even more confusing :)

When I visited the site last month they were still waiting for Chorus to hook up the fibre link, were setting up the backup satellite link.
Oops. I was looking at the nzherald article posted higher up on the page #-o
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National radio had a story on it this morning and the deal Met Service did with local Maori for the use of the site.
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