General April Weather

Manukau heads obs · Wed 13/04/2016 06:31

22mm here and a fair amount of lightning and thunder around midnight

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 13/04/2016 06:50

Overnight thundery rain in the Waikato but very little precip made it to Auckland City. Upto 35mm fell in North Waikato.

22mm at your place Brian and Ricky got 0mm.

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 13/04/2016 07:07

Not even 1mm here, can't say I'm surprised...

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 13/04/2016 07:38

3mm from the front. Had 4mm from showers earlier in the day.

The dry continues here.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Wed 13/04/2016 09:26

Lightning last 24 hours......

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 13/04/2016 09:34

Thanks for the lightning data Tim.

Looks like 2 main storm cells moved across. Otorohunga and north Waikato.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 13/04/2016 16:57

Met Service had on their FB site the rain radar estimated totals too...
my neighbour recorded 40mm in his gauge...(which is what Pukekohe got..)..and he is only just down the road...
and yet I only got 22mm
but the rain radar showed it was a very sharp edge where the heaviest rain was...and I was right on the edge

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 13/04/2016 17:40

We did a tally for June 1 to end of March rainfall. Dairy season is June 1 to 31 May and we are only 750mm. To reach our average of 1200 we will need 450mm in the next 6 weeks.

In other words it's going to be a very dry season for us which explains why we are just so dry.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 13/04/2016 20:11

I see a pws in Pukekohe recorded 50mm between 1 and 3.30am. 24mm fell in an hr.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 14/04/2016 07:32

A quiet weather outlook for NZ with the Highs dominating. There is a slight chance Northland may catch some thundery weather on Saturday.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 15/04/2016 07:20

Looks like the latest gfs could be under doing the rain chances for the upper North Island this weekend. Both Ukmet and Eu suggest a wetter scenario. Upper level dynamics are not that great though but there is some good moisture there.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 15/04/2016 07:48

coromandel, hauraki gulf...hunua....will get the rain...
but north waikato..that still needs rain...wont get much...I would suggest

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 15/04/2016 21:20

Stunning Autumn day today. Cool 8C min warmed up to 21C with mainly sunny skies

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Fri 15/04/2016 23:00

Yes a very nice Autumnal day today. Down to a crisp 1.9°C this morning....

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 16/04/2016 12:27

GFS is showing very moist air over Northland tomorrow, a dewpoint of 19-20C . Upper air looks cool as well for a thunderstorm chance there, something to watch.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 16/04/2016 18:43

Warm today, up to 23.8Chere.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Sun 17/04/2016 07:58

Why are you not happy about it being warm John, its bloody great.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 17/04/2016 16:20

it looked like we were going to miss the rain..but then a sudden burst of new rain band developed right over us
15mm

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 17/04/2016 17:37

melja wrote:Why are you not happy about it being warm John, its bloody great.

No it's not. Did all this firewood and the days are not cold enough to enjoy it, well yet

Warm days are OK but it's really annoying when you don't get a thunderstorm development out of it like what has occurred most days with this useless El Nino pattern we have just had. 99%of people are enjoying this weather but I find it quite non-eventful, sadly

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 17/04/2016 18:06

Manukau heads obs wrote:it looked like we were going to miss the rain..but then a sudden burst of new rain band developed right over us
15mm

2mm here

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 17/04/2016 18:43

Only 7mm of patchy light rain for Howick. Could do with more, though that is the best rain in 3 weeks.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sun 17/04/2016 18:52

Steady light 32mm here so far today - mostly since about 11am.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 17/04/2016 20:43

I see Whitianga has had over 100mm today, Metservice showing 71.2mm there in the 6 hrs to 8pm.

Greylyn showing 16.2mm today, brighter weather here from mid afternoon.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 18/04/2016 06:47

Looking like a fine week with a trough due next weekend, and then fine again if you believe the gfs.
No cold outbreak on the cards for April.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Mon 18/04/2016 09:05

Nearly had what one could call rain here this morning, but i reckon i could ripe up the road and there would still be dust behind me though.

oh well, one day it will rain.

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