General March Weather

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 14/03/2015 11:52

It only brought a few spits to St Albans. Rain from the main southerly didn't arrive until after midnight in central Chch area.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Sat 14/03/2015 14:06

A few video stills and HD video from yesterday's thunderstorm...

Brassnz · Unread post by **Brassnz** » Sat 14/03/2015 14:07

Great shots, Skywatcher.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 14/03/2015 16:01

Nice one there Steven.
Hope you were wearing your NZTS T-shirt

Interesting looking rain-shaft. My wife said that she was driving down Weedons Ross Road and it was absolutely pouring down but just up the road and here there was nothing well a few large rain-drops.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Sat 14/03/2015 17:34

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Nice one there Steven.
Hope you were wearing your NZTS T-shirt
Interesting looking rain-shaft. My wife said that she was driving down Weedons Ross Road and it was absolutely pouring down but just up and road and here there was nothing well a few large rain-drops.

Thanks. Same here, just a few drops in the air while I was recording.

Watching the video it was interesting to see that the stepped leaders seemed to originate near the top of that rain-shaft.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Sat 14/03/2015 17:40

That rain-shaft's an uncanny-looking thing...

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sat 14/03/2015 17:50

Nice photos Steven

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 14/03/2015 19:01

I got the feeling that rain shaft passed over my area (halswell) or our gutters are completely blocked. Flooded right across the road

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 14/03/2015 19:16

Orion wrote:That rain-shaft's an uncanny-looking thing...

I thought so too.
Looks like a tornadic form?

Bradley · Unread post by **Bradley** » Sun 15/03/2015 12:12

GFS has gone mad for Christchurch next week with a forecast of over 100mm!!

David · Unread post by **David** » Mon 16/03/2015 13:38

Looking forward to the cooler nights coming up. Avg min so far this month is 16.5C.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 16/03/2015 17:17

Elongated day of drizzly rain here today which is the most prolonged amount of substantial precipitation that we have had for ages. well so far this year. Good for grass regrowth.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Tue 17/03/2015 07:03

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Elongated day of drizzly rain here today which is the most prolonged amount of substantial precipitation that we have had for ages. well so far this year. Good for grass regrowth.

You're lucky

even this morning there's been not a drop fallen here,eyes turn to this weekend now

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Fri 20/03/2015 19:05

Well summer has been and gone round here but still very dry tho but more so Rangiora north with areas around Waipara, Waikari, Hawarden being just dirt.
Have delivered around 30 tonne of sheep pellets to farmers up that way in the last few weeks and 10 tonne to one farmer alone.
They say now its getting cold that grass growth will stop anyway, thing could get very tight this winter.

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 20/03/2015 19:21

Has a surprise light drizzle shower here this evening after a lovely Autumn day, min 11C max 21C. Photo of rainbow this evening:

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Sun 22/03/2015 13:13

17mm of rain here since late last night best rain in 6 months.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Sun 22/03/2015 13:29

A handy 20mm here

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Sun 22/03/2015 14:16

Not even enough drizzle here to wet the ground

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Sun 22/03/2015 19:05

melja wrote:Not even enough drizzle here to wet the ground

Front seemed to stall from Banks Peninsula south,in ChCh this morning for the city to surf,dry all morning.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 22/03/2015 19:51

melja wrote:Not even enough drizzle here to wet the ground

Not even any drizzle here..again

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 22/03/2015 19:57

Nice day for Auckland today 23C.
An upper trough will be parked to our west tomorrow with the precip offshore. Very little precip making it to Auckland this week.

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 22/03/2015 20:15

NZstorm wrote:Nice day for Auckland today 23C.
An upper trough will be parked to our west tomorrow with the precip offshore. Very little precip making it to Auckland this week.

Yeah, looks like we have reverted back to a dry pattern again since Cyclone Pam gave 40mm a week ago. Also shaping up to be quite a warm month, avg min is around 16C so far.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 23/03/2015 13:37

Looks like we should get some showers overnight tonight as the 500mb vortex moves across Auckland.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 23/03/2015 18:57

The cloud lifted for a mainly fine day in the Canterbury high country today for my favourite climb,Peak Hill Lake Coleridge

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/03/2015 22:22

rain band finally got here

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