Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Thunder to my west here.


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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Thunder here too. A Christmas present!
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Just clocked a peak rainfall rate of 311.4 mm/h, 21mm in 10 min. Absolute cloud burst. Flash flooding.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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I'm in Arrowtown., blue skies here but I would rather have Xmas thunder
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Certainly a deluge and I suspect the usual areas round here will have flooded after 20mm in half an hour. There was a lot of strong flowing surface water around our place, thankfully on a slope so it all flows away.
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Very slowly getting here! Been hours so close to us.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Keeping an eye on the skies in ShannonImage

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Now on 36mm for today. The garden is growing like crazy the last week.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Not a lot of action in Tokomaru right now only heavy rain.

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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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91mm for the event here, very decent considering all of the early near misses I had. Widespread 100mm+ for the event through out Auckland's PWS network.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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153mm for us in Swanson, sure is wet out there!
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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The cell over Napier that MetService warned about was quite photogenic! Pic’s courtesy of @BrenaKiwi on twitter. (Shared with permission).
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Edit: Got a tip off to some stunning pics of the same system by https://www.instagram.com/shortrs18/

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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Should divert some of the rain to the Atacama - Arica and Iquique have had no rain this year, the latter none since 2015.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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Had 51.8mm of rain, here, on Christmas day. Some good CGs hit central Palmy, from a storm system that moved down from the northern Manawatu and lingered from about 3:30pm through to about 6pm.
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Re: Christmas Low 22 – 26 December

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The sky 'exploded': Napier weather bomb causes severe localised flooding

According to NZ Herald, Napier got a Weather Bomb. Useless NZ Media strike again.
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