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North west winds got quite strong here during the night. Woke me up at 2.30am and I could hear lots of banging in the yard and the roar of the wind was quite noticeable.

Same here, some damage noticed with a few uprooted sunflowers and one tobacco plant snapped off

Reports of tornado damage in Greymouth last night...

'Wild weather: Tornado rips through South Island town as heavy rain warnings continue' - NZ Herald

Southerly wind now strong and rising, hissing through tree-leaves.
Overcast, 14.1°C.

Southwest winds strong through Christchurch now, gusting up to 50kph. Still around 14c

Richard wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 07:57 Same here, some damage noticed with a few uprooted sunflowers and one tobacco plant snapped off

Holy smokes!

TonyT wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 09:26

Richard wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 07:57 Same here, some damage noticed with a few uprooted sunflowers and one tobacco plant snapped off

Holy smokes!

oh yes, its a pretty grim situation here this morning

Wind must be swinging around, just noticed raindrops on west-facing windows which rarely happens.

12.2°C currently.

Orion wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 10:07 Wind must be swinging around, just noticed raindrops on west-facing windows which rarely happens.

12.2°C currently.

It’s calmed down significantly here now, looks like the sun could almost come out. I have noticed the wind swinging around too.

Hardly any rain here, just overcast with a cold westerly wind blowing. The heavy falls must be way out to sea?

Just light spotty rain so far here which I was expecting all going by the surface maps, this will increase this afternoon along with the big gales especially about the coast and Banks Peninsula.
Have had a few spells of gusts just on gale force 60kmh about 20 minutes ago.
The system only starting to wind into the coast now.

Nothing much here either, we are not going to get much at all.

Some puzzling lines from Stuff:

[bbm]

"A tornado moving up the country has torn off roofs and brought power outages to southern regions, and warnings remain in place for Canterbury."

Decidedly stormy in Lincoln, heavy rain set in an hour ago and increasingly gusty winds. Chch in the firing line I would say, particularly with king tides

The wind is really picking up here now, by far the strongest it’s been all day.

Some very heavy rain here now I'll call it torrential, but is probably being driven down by high winds a little higher up.
The winds have been quite blustery although seem to be getting up again now, a few small branches down in the city.
It looks rough in Akaroa with the sea up over the roads.

Temperature dropped from 21 to 16 with the cooler change here around 2pm, along with 14mm rain this afternoon

Storm Struck wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 19:01 It looks rough in Akaroa with the sea up over the roads.

Pretty wet and windy over there today, with heavy rain on the odd occasion and gale gusts at times. Harbour looked wild as I was coming back this afternoon about 4-4.30, but the sea wasn't washing over the road at Duvauchelle (it was high tide), though not far from it. No flooding or major branches down that I could see.

Fairly windy here all day from the west to he south to SW but not much rain.
Only 0.7mm falling from today's 'heavy falls'.
Temperature around the 12C mark this afternoon.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Tue 21/03/2023 20:43
Only 0.7mm falling from today's 'heavy falls'.

1.2mm here today

14mm here since yesterday afternoon, fine conditions now.

As expected, some issues in the usual places around chch

40mm plus in a few Banks Peninsula locations, 30mm at home in Halswell, I see 30-40mm across Spencerville/ Kainga too all from the ECAN rain gauges

From the CCC;

A number of roads are closed in the Christchurch area due to flooding and fallen trees.

CLOSED
‼New Brighton Rd, closed from Palmers Rd to Pages Rd
‼Avonside Drive, closed from Wainoni Rd to Kerrs Rd
‼Newport St
‼River Rd, closed from Medway St to Banks Ave
‼Owles Tce, closed from Seaview Rd to Hardy St
‼Beresford St, closed from Owles Tce to Hardy St
‼Maces Rd, closed from Ruru Rd to Lupins Ln

We'll update this post as we receive information. Take care on the roads and drive to the conditions. Stay safe Ōtautahi.

Big swells have also been cause for some concern. Wainui boat ramp looked to have taken some damage, and saw some a report of 3m or erosion at the ashburton mouth as waves came of the top of shingle bars.

Hypno wrote: ↑Wed 22/03/2023 15:37 Big swells have also been cause for some concern. Wainui boat ramp looked to have taken some damage, and saw some a report of 3m or erosion at the ashburton mouth as waves came of the top of shingle bars.

Out of interest, where did you get your info about the Ashburton River mouth? I’m not able to drive down there for a look this evening so pictures will have to do!

darcyplumb wrote:

Hypno wrote: ↑Wed 22/03/2023 15:37 Big swells have also been cause for some concern. Wainui boat ramp looked to have taken some damage, and saw some a report of 3m or erosion at the ashburton mouth as waves came of the top of shingle bars.

Out of interest, where did you get your info about the Ashburton River mouth? I’m not able to drive down there for a look this evening so pictures will have to do!

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