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Thunder to my west here.


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Thunder here too. A Christmas present!

Just clocked a peak rainfall rate of 311.4 mm/h, 21mm in 10 min. Absolute cloud burst. Flash flooding.

I'm in Arrowtown., blue skies here but I would rather have Xmas thunder

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.

Very slowly getting here! Been hours so close to us.
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Keeping an eye on the skies in Shannon

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Now on 36mm for today. The garden is growing like crazy the last week.

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

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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.

153mm for us in Swanson, sure is wet out there!

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

Double Edit: Merry Xmas to all on here! Thanks for all the wisdom, insight, banter, live reports, predictions (fake news? ) and photos that makes this place a great hangout. Extra special big thanks to all the Mods for keeping the place orderly and clean!

Should divert some of the rain to the Atacama - Arica and Iquique have had no rain this year, the latter none since 2015.

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.

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

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