Razor wrote: ↑Mon 11/07/2022 12:12
Can't speak for Otago, but Banks Peninsula and ChCh have been punching out near to above average rainfall month on month this year
Hmmm I thought this year has been very dry, I seem to find Jeff's station at Hoon Hay a lot more accurate than the Metservice airport site.
So by those numbers we are circa 55% of expected rainfall so far this year, only 20.6mm so far in July but I'm looking forward to that changing over the next week.
As Tony says there are some interesting anomolies, and Jeffs is one of them this year- a standout outlier! I know as I live in the suburb next door. I think theres been a lot more of the Banks Peninsula shadow effect than normal in a really localised band this year from Cashmere to Tai Tapu.
Most of our wider hood has had much more rain.
MS evidence is average to above in the region, especially on Banks Peninsula at the Cooptown site- must be running close to double average there
Year to dates as at 30 June:
ChCh Aero = 345.6mm
Lyttelton = 348.4mm
Cooptown (Banks Peninsula) = 649.3mm
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Richard wrote: ↑Mon 11/07/2022 15:32
A watch for snow to 400m north of Waimakariri River means likely to snow here, dam, had quite a good number of years without the horrible stuff, gotta happen one day I suppose.
Amuri basin around 200-250m ASL? Really don't think you will see any snow there from this event. Looking like a good dump for areas above 500m.Tekapo/Twizel/Ashburton lakes etc. Been a good Winter for snow In Twizel with 2 decent falls.so far, Often this area misses out on snow due it's sheltered location.
jamie wrote: ↑Mon 11/07/2022 12:15
Jeez I’m not looking forward to this system. We just need a break from the rain. 460mm in exactly the last 8 weeks with 50-70 in the next 24 hours. Why do we seem to have a on switch and off switch for rain in recent years but nothing between the two modes. It’s crazy.
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I’ve started thinking of the climate in Auckland as the wet season and the dry season. I know it isn’t really like that in the official way, like Darwin or somewhere like that. But it sure feels like it the last few years, with what feels like months and months of dry weather, and then rain seemingly all winter.
Richard wrote: ↑Mon 11/07/2022 15:32
A watch for snow to 400m north of Waimakariri River means likely to snow here, dam, had quite a good number of years without the horrible stuff, gotta happen one day I suppose.
Amuri basin around 200-250m ASL? Really don't think you will see any snow there from this event. Looking like a good dump for areas above 500m.Tekapo/Twizel/Ashburton lakes etc. Been a good Winter for snow In Twizel with 2 decent falls.so far, Often this area misses out on snow due it's sheltered location.
You are right, I got mixed with my heights above sea level, its 235m here. This area ranges from 175m on the eastern side of the Amuri to up 327m.
jamie wrote: ↑Mon 11/07/2022 12:15
Jeez I’m not looking forward to this system. We just need a break from the rain. 460mm in exactly the last 8 weeks with 50-70 in the next 24 hours. Why do we seem to have a on switch and off switch for rain in recent years but nothing between the two modes. It’s crazy.
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Wow, that’s impressive. Even taking into account a potential 25% under reading on my station we’d be at about 275mm in the last 6 weeks
Heavy rain rates starting to come through here now.Ground is fairly saturated already.
Some patches of surface flooding in the usual areas along roads becoming prominent.I will imagine a few trees might fall if the wind picks up later in the day.
Snow level creeping down now, Friend just informed me it's snowing but not setting in Fairlie at 300m asl.heavy rain here at 100m ASL with 16mm so far.
snowstormwatcher wrote:Snow level creeping down now, Friend just informed me it's snowing but not setting in Fairlie at 300m asl.heavy rain here at 100m ASL with 16mm so far.
Temperature slowly dropping here 4.8 degrees steady rain and 1 degree in Methven.Heavy snow on the ground already at the Ashburton lakes 700 metres
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snowstormwatcher wrote: ↑Tue 12/07/2022 09:36
Snow level creeping down now, Friend just informed me it's snowing but not setting in Fairlie at 300m asl.heavy rain here at 100m ASL with 16mm so far.
Temperature level has just started to drop here from 7°C and presently on 6.2.
Continuous moderate to heavy bursts of rain.
The event is over for us, 64mm here. We look to the next system late Thursday/ Friday which may bring some thunderstorms.
Inland Canterbury web cams showing heavy snow falling there.
Razor wrote: ↑Tue 12/07/2022 14:42
Civil Defence alarm just went off on the phone- Selwyn Huts, self evacuation notice
New norm i think, will get harder and harder to empty the lagoons as seas rise and lower river flows cannot hold them open. Three days ago they had a digger opening a mouth at the Rakaia to lower the lagoon levels