General June Weather

[Wildland]

107mm to 8pm and still raining. Although, looking at the radar and satellite images, the rain looks like it should decrease in the next couple of hours.

Thanks for the update! The Taranaki, Wanaganui, Horowhenua and Manawatu situation has been progessively getting worse all day. A lot of disruption for you people up there. The Wellington region has been sheltered from the worst of this one - have had a few people ringing me today thinking that we were in it too. But we had only 41 mm here at Tawa on Friday and today was relatively dry.

But things sound pretty bad for some regions just north of here. I understand the spillway near Waitarere was opened this afternoon to release some of the river flows. When I had a place up there we knew things were serious when the spillway was opened!

[Manukau heads obs]

how much rain fell in the taranaki/wanganui area?
is the problem that its not long since the last big rain event?

[GreggWard]

132.6mm to midnight last night, for Palmy. No wonder the drains couldn't cope. I was listening to the scanner last night and the Police were really busy closing off roads and helping people who had driven through the floods and got stuck.

[Richard]

Thats a lot rain,we at least its looking like a few days coming for those effected.

[Nev]

MS has 166mm in the last 48 hrs at Palmerston North Aero, 138mm at Whanganui Aero, 131mm at New Plymouth Aero, 99mm at Levin and 95mm at Hawera.

[Manukau heads obs]

the totals would have been much higher of course though in the hill country feeding the river systems

[GreggWard]

Video and photos, from Manawatu and Wanganui, about the floods, can be found here:

https://www.facebook.com/manawatufloods ... age_bubble
https://www.facebook.com/manawatufloods ... ts_to_page

[Skywatcher]

It's been a very pleasant sunny winter's afternoon here after fog and ground frost to start. Winds have switched to the NW from a light NE and pushed temps up to 15C.

[Andy]

3 degrees and light rain falling here

[03Stormchaser]

Kinda of weather related, don't know why it made the news though?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/busine ... owth-plans

[melja]

Think it is news tho and it is the press so just following up on other stories about them I guess.

[NZstorm]

Kinda of weather related, don't know why it made the news though?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/busine ... owth-plans

If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.

[Weather Watcher]

If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.

This forum needs a like button.

[03Stormchaser]

Kinda of weather related, don't know why it made the news though?

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/busine ... owth-plans

If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.

This should be nominated as post of the year!! Where is the forum oscars!

[Tim S]

You don't need a science degree to forecast the weather, all you need to do is study Thermodynamics, be fairly knowledgable when it comes to Math and have some common sense. The latter is lacking in many 'meteorologists' that 'forecast' the weather.

Rule number 1 when it comes to forecasting the weather (or running any business for that matter), you can't make money out of just doing exactly what everyone else does, you have to have a point of difference. Starting a social media business that does exactly what other companies do is always going to end in tears.

I started a weather group almost 9 years ago and resisted the urge to commercialise it and I'm glad I did, almost 9 years on we have over 5000 twitter followers and 4000 plus likes on Facebook. But that took a lot of work and 9 years. There was a weather group that was established before us and they have 1000 less likes on Facebook and no presence on twitter.

[Wildland]

If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.

This forum needs a like button.

A "like" button is the last thing we need. Can't we leave that to facebook?

This is a forum for sharing thoughts and observations. Not a stage.

[Richard]

Amazing cloud pattern today west of the NI ,ideas on what caused this??

[Manukau heads obs]

ah, cool, its an eddy setup by Mt Taranaki

[David]

Amazing cloud pattern today west of the NI ,ideas on what caused this??

Yes they are called Karman vortices, see Metservice blog for more info: http://blog.metservice.com/2009/06/mt-t ... ex-street/

[Orion]

Very elegant!

[David]

Nice to have milder conditions back again, 9C min last night, currently 15C. Partly cloudy conditions.

[NZstorm]

Nice to have milder conditions back again, 9C min last night, currently 15C. Partly cloudy conditions.

Long range modelling showing milder nighttime temps for us now.

[Andy]

Great if we get some milder weather! the firewood reserves were getting a hiding.

[einzack]

Well it was a mild night, but it hasn't warmed up much now that it's daytime here. Currently sitting on 4.5°C with drizzle. Miserable.

[Skywatcher]

Breezy NW has pushed temps to 17C here while the airport has a light NE and 12C.