Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 08:33
My Methven Spy reports sleet and full-on snow along Highway 72 from Pudding Hill Road to Staveley, and snowing in Staveley at present.
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Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 08:56
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 09:09
Just starting to get heavy here now, had 15mm so far
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 09:35
Newstalk ZB reporting the Waimak is close to breaching. Yikes.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 10:00
Snowing steadily in Methven
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 10:44
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 10:51
That reporter does not help the situation by relying on "eye witnesses" to tell him the Waimak is breaching its banks whilst he reports from the comfort of his desk at Newstalk ZB. Bad reporting inaccurate and darn well scare mongering for facebook clicks. Unfortunately this reporting causes the public to blame the media for fake news.hypersonic wrote: ↑Fri 09/11/2018 10:44Highly doubt it given the river is flowing at ~2000m^3/s and dropping with the stopbanks being designed for ~4700m^3/s
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 11:11
Just been over the Waimak Bridge, it's as high as I've ever seen it.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 11:13
Been raining continuously here in Geraldine since yesterday. 48.6mm since 10pm last night.
Pretty sure I heard a distant roll of thunder in the early hours.
Temperture cooling down to 1C with sleet falling with the rain from after 10am.
Intersting to see how much snow is up there when this clears?
Pretty sure I heard a distant roll of thunder in the early hours.
Temperture cooling down to 1C with sleet falling with the rain from after 10am.
Intersting to see how much snow is up there when this clears?
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 11:15
Snowing in Hororata.
Not too heavy by the photo I've seen, but enough to begin to settle....
Not too heavy by the photo I've seen, but enough to begin to settle....
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 11:23
Reports of snow to 100m in inland Canterbury from a few on Facepalm. One stating it is a severe warm air advection event.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 11:28
Just cracks 40mm in Rangiora since last evening.
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Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 12:47
Some decent cooling under the heavy precipitation
I see on MS it is currently 2.7C at Ashburton, would be unusually cold in June for the time of day.
I see on MS it is currently 2.7C at Ashburton, would be unusually cold in June for the time of day.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 12:49
A few flakes of Stuff starting to fall here just now.
Plus rain.
Plus rain.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 12:51
The sleet getting heavier as the temperature falls
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 13:02
If anyone had bothered to check Ecan they would find a statement the Banks are not under any threat. Reporters inciting possible panic like this should be called out.
Waimakariri River Position Statement
Scheme Performance (9/11/2018)
This was posted @ 11-15 Friday November 9
In response to a number of calls received the following is a statement re the above:
"The Waimakariri River protection system is performing as it is designed to do and we have no problems anywhere from the Gorge to the sea on both sides of the river."
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 13:23
Stuff reported CWU may have initiated it
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Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 13:32
Below is a plot of all of the annual maximum river flows for the Waimak at the Old Highway Bridge, for this current event the peak flow has been 1983m^3/sHypno wrote: ↑Fri 09/11/2018 13:02If anyone had bothered to check Ecan they would find a statement the Banks are not under any threat. Reporters inciting possible panic like this should be called out.
Waimakariri River Position Statement
Scheme Performance (9/11/2018)
This was posted @ 11-15 Friday November 9
In response to a number of calls received the following is a statement re the above:
"The Waimakariri River protection system is performing as it is designed to do and we have no problems anywhere from the Gorge to the sea on both sides of the river."
Rain/ Snow / Flooding SI 8/9 Nov 2018
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 13:46
Thought this deserved its own topic for future reference will move posts across
Re: Rain/ Snow / Flooding SI 8/9 Nov 2018
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 13:51
Per MetService, Ashburton reading at 1:46pm, actual temp. 2.5°C.
Feels Like -2°C
Feels Like -2°C
Re: Rain/ Snow / Flooding SI 8/9 Nov 2018
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 14:15
Wet snow falling now
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 14:31
That's quite astounding for 1957, 3900 cumecs is a phenomenal flow rate!
The deep reds on the Canterbury radar seem quite well set at the moment.
The deep reds on the Canterbury radar seem quite well set at the moment.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 15:47
I can remember seeing photos of the Fairlie Flyer train shunting along the main street of Fairlie in November 1967 with snow on the ground then.
Re: General November Weather
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 17:01
Re: Rain/ Snow / Flooding SI 8/9 Nov 2018
Posted: Fri 09/11/2018 17:08
Some rainfall amounts around this area are, here- 40.4mm Waiau 25mm and Cheviot 20mm. The 40 mm here is going to do wonders as its come straight after much of the silage and hay has been processed, those without irrigation should now get a good second cut.