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Dean. wrote: ↑Mon 26/11/2018 21:53 Yes a lot of whoohaa over a little rain really

Not if you are in kaikoura

Decent plume of moisture in the mid levels near the top of the NI in the last hour appearing on the water vapour image, extending south on the trough off that developing circulation. Who ever falls under the convergence on the NI is going to get a nice localised watering of their garden this afternoon.

Razor wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 08:40

Dean. wrote: ↑Mon 26/11/2018 21:53 Yes a lot of whoohaa over a little rain really

Not if you are in kaikoura

Anywhere along the hill ranges have had good totals, my local small river is in flood so that would have to be 50-60mm to bring it up that high.

The highest readings on the ECAN site indicate 200mm+ for the event so far around the Kaikoura Hill country, quite a bit more to come today

Very little rain in kaikoura itself tho, dry nearly all day yesterday.
Bit like saying it was wet in hokitika when in fact it's the hills behind.
Chch airport has recorded more in the last 7days.
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We are currently sitting on 115mm this month, which doesn't seem that high for our climate, but actually makes it my station's wettest November. Since I set my weather station up almost 9 years ago November has traditionally been a dry month with not a lot of variation in totals.

Convergence across the area this afternoon, see if anything can develop around around here, south of the Bombay Hills looks better. A little on the humid side,current dp 15C, temp 21C.

Wellington Airport reporting gale force, averaging 38knots, gusting 49 knots . Temperature 12C.

Nothing eventuating here today despite good heating. Turned out to be quite a reasonable day given the pressure is down to 996 hPa.

Nasty looking line to the East of me, but heard no thunder so far.

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South Auckland got some afternoon showers, stayed dry here with increasing high cloudiness, however there is still the chance of a convergence shower here.

melja wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 10:14 Sent from my Redmi Note 4 using Tapatalk

I'm glad of that

Some decent rain into ChCh now, finally after 4 days of ifs and maybes some reasonably prolonged falls look to be settling in

There is a massive amount of water sitting in the skies North East of New Zealand, see what develops of that.

Rain radar looks interesting.

Razor wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 17:16 Some decent rain into ChCh now, finally after 4 days of ifs and maybes some reasonably prolonged falls look to be settling in

Not here, its only spitting, we are being sheltered by the eastern hill ranges looking at the radar.

Its been 5 years since the last major rain event in this area. We have a stream bed that snakes through our property, it only flows when it very wet and 5 years ago was when it last had a good flow of water.

It's all falling apart on the radar, as per the discussed Banks Peninsula shadow

Poor old kaikoura getting nailed, 12mm in the last hour there, and no real signs of it letting up. CHCH meanwhile is miserable with torrential drizzle. Seems to be setting in again.

Looks like that rain band up there is slightly further South than predicted? Interesting night ahead!

snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 21:05 Looks like that rain band up there is slightly further South than predicted? Interesting night ahead!

Agreed, I'd go with a bit South and West, hope it continues to stay away from us. It's also bigger than I anticipated at the mo.

tgsnoopy wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 21:41

snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Tue 27/11/2018 21:05 Looks like that rain band up there is slightly further South than predicted? Interesting night ahead!

Agreed, I'd go with a bit South and West, hope it continues to stay away from us. It's also bigger than I anticipated at the mo.

I think that's reading too much into things. Kaikoura as wet as predicted but we are still in the BP shadow down here. Radar has made that clear all night

2mm of drizzle here over night and were not in no rain shadow.

2.3mm here since 9am yesterday.

That BP rain shadow effect is clearly seen on the radar this morning, seems to be extending out as far as the Waimakariri

Up over 300mm for parts of the Kaikoura hill country

Sourced from ECAN