General April Weather

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 18/04/2015 13:09

ricky wrote:up near the top of valley rd mt eden somewhere...

A House in Henly Road, Mt Eden has had a fire which is apparently related to that lightning strike, not sure if it got hit or it was a power surge. Power out in that part of Mt Eden.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 18/04/2015 13:11

30mm in 2 hours we got here

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 18/04/2015 13:44

I see Maungakawa in northern Waikato has had 67mm since 9am this morning!

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 18/04/2015 13:48

It's still pouring here. Heaps of surface flooding about. Yet to get worse too.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 18/04/2015 14:34

great view of the whole system from behind here now..blue skies here..black out to the SE/east
rotation center right over northern waikato
heavy rain warnings did come out for waikato/coro at lunch time I see

Brassnz · Unread post by **Brassnz** » Sat 18/04/2015 14:35

My parents in Hamilton have clocked up 80mm rain from this system so far, and still raining heavily.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sat 18/04/2015 14:47

87.4mm in parts of Matangi, 50-60mm in others. The Lawn is certainly getting a soaking atm.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sat 18/04/2015 14:52

Hamilton AWS is up to 83mm so far.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 18/04/2015 14:54

No rain in Chch overnight, despite the forecast. Just the slightest of drizzle.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 18/04/2015 14:56

66here so far! Still chucking it down. We missed the early rain the airport got at 6.30 7am. It didn't really start here until 8am

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sat 18/04/2015 15:46

Some good thunder being heard, long lasting from Intracloud. No lightning observed thus far. Been good seeing decent rain today, will be well received I suspect. Just saw first lightning, intracloud, about 2km North.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sat 18/04/2015 15:56

I'm starting to think 100mm is on the cards for many places in the Waikato.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 18/04/2015 16:12

been like being in the eye of a cyclone here with Cb's all around us

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sat 18/04/2015 16:14

Beauty CG a minute ago, lit the place up & big power flick. Approx 1 km NW.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Sat 18/04/2015 16:32

100mm breached here in parts of Matangi....

David · Unread post by **David** » Sat 18/04/2015 16:38

Manukau heads obs wrote:been like being in the eye of a cyclone here with Cb's all around us

Yeah, had some nice sunshine for a time this afternoon, but cooler with a max of just 17 today. Just 13.4mm recorded here.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Sat 18/04/2015 16:58

Bradley wrote:
RWood wrote:From memory, the 7SS showed winter 1992 had near to normal temps overall, thanks to a mildish July. However autumn was very cold and Sept-Oct rather cold. Brief respite in a cloudy mild Nov. was followed by more cold months. Jan-Mar 2015 was warmer than Jan-Mar 1992, and we don't have Pinatubo effects to factor in this time.
I thought the winter of 92' was near average for Christchurch as well but it actually turned out to be in the top 5 coldest winters recorded at the airport since records began in 1954

That's why I just quoted 7SS as NZ overall was nearer normal. The real image for the country was of a very long winter because of the cold autumn and spring.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 18/04/2015 21:25

tich wrote:No rain in Chch overnight, despite the forecast. Just the slightest of drizzle.

Rained out here, Ben with 4.3mm overnight.
Probably not shown on the Rakaia Radar as that has been out for much of this week.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 18/04/2015 23:36

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
tich wrote:No rain in Chch overnight, despite the forecast. Just the slightest of drizzle.
Rained out here, Ben with 4.3mm overnight.
Probably not shown on the Rakaia Radar as that has been out for much of this week.

Was expecting rain Friday evening as it was forecast to develop, but without radar I couldn't tell if or when it was going to reach Chch.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 19/04/2015 08:56

I see Hamilton got 103.4 mm yesterday and Tauranga 53.8mm, a good soaking down there.

A trough to cross NZ at Anzac weekend but Anzac morning looks okay for most, the prefrontal flow should give a mild am across much of NZ

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sun 19/04/2015 11:07

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
tich wrote:No rain in Chch overnight, despite the forecast. Just the slightest of drizzle.
Rained out here, Ben with 4.3mm overnight.
Probably not shown on the Rakaia Radar as that has been out for much of this week.

There was no rain in Cashmere. Must have been localised out your way John.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Sun 19/04/2015 12:42

I got 0.8mm here yesterday and most of that was between 6 and 7am. I see stations at Burnham and Rolleston recorded 6mm.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Sun 19/04/2015 17:55

Ended up being a lovely day with a light to moderate NW wind,21deg after a -1 start

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 19/04/2015 20:05

Pleasant day here, although the NE was fresh for awhile this morning.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Mon 20/04/2015 06:45

The NW wind kept it from not going any lower than 15deg overnight.
The rainband moving up the South Island will yet again die out before reaching here

looking like we will go into May still in drought.

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