Slow moving trough, prolonged rain Mid and Upper South Island 9-12 Jan
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Slow moving trough, prolonged rain Mid and Upper South Island 9-12 Jan
Models showing a trend to more dumper weather in the next week or so, that would be ideal for my location because the 21mm that fall Friday was not enough on its own to have been any use, but to have a back up rainfall mid week would great.
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Re: General January Weather
Looking like an upper trough will be the player in the South Islands weather this week with widespread precip. Not good for sun worshippers on holiday. Maybe Central Otago will escape the worst of it. Modelling for Tuesday suggests a thunderstorm or two developing over the Otago/Canterbury foothills. Airmass is very moist.
Looking like isolated thunderstorms over the North Island this coming week too. More likely late week when they could become more widespread.
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Yes a good sign. Poked the shovel into the ground yesterday, the 21mm had seeped about 6cm then bone dry past that, problem will be a couple hot days and that 6cm will heat up and evaporate. Soil has been getting to 26deg at 10cm depth on the hot day lately.
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Re: General January Weather
Wednesday to mid Friday looking very interesting indeed on the GFS.... at least for us in Canterbury and over the hill on the mid West Coast
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Actually now looking at the rainfall record at home after work we had rain falling at 65mm/hr at 2pm with 24mm in the gauge from 1.15 to 3.15 pm today .Another large blue blob with red bits in it to the west incoming now
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Re: General January Weather
Immmmmmmmmmmmm, a few spits here
....thinking how much rain we will get here in the next coupla days?
....thinking how much rain we will get here in the next coupla days?
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Well that is going to be interesting .Antecedent rainfall becomes problematic on the West Coast if there is an insufficient break between the rain bands to allow the streams and rivers and any surface flooding to abate
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The weather is currently moving from the west yet its raining more on the eastern side than the West Coast, dont often see that.
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Yes, the 21mm a few days back would have long gone. Its a lovely steady rain this morning. Not sure how much of this rain is spillover though, the lower cloud is streaming in from the SW
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The middle cloud is tracking west to east as are the radar rain images ,Lots of interesting cloud still out there is the Tasman Sea
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Re: General January Weather
Its absolutely pelting down here in central Christchurch right now
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Re: General January Weather
latest gfs rainfall graphic for next 3 days.
Dry in the north and south, very wet in between!
Dry in the north and south, very wet in between!
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Re: General January Weather
True to form, the very day a drought is declared in Westland....
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100mm to 125mm here going by that, Tony was spot on when he reckon it was going to get wet.
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I've had 41mm to 0900 this morning and probably another 10mm since .There looks like another slug of rain this evening and tomorrow morning to come yet
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Re: Slow moving trough, prolonged rain Mid and Upper South Island 9-12 Jan
Tomorrow could get interesting, somewhere is going to really cop it I fear, not used to it being so mild while it rained in the South island, more a northern set up. 22mm here so far with increasing intensity
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Re: Slow moving trough, prolonged rain Mid and Upper South Island 9-12 Jan
Ended up with 36mm yesterday and up to 14mm so far today with it being much heavier this morning.
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Re: Slow moving trough, prolonged rain Mid and Upper South Island 9-12 Jan
Had 30.2 total for this event, a useful amount now.