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Ive been in CHCH today. Very entertaining drive back, Amberley is in a mess with lots of trees down with a caravan over turned and car rolled down the back at the top of the hill between Waikari and Hurunui. The strong wind has not long arrived here I'm told, no damage so far thankfully

Winds are actually stronger now than before and more W-NW rather than NW earlier.
Just watched a big maple get stripped from the top and rain down on the neighborhood.

Just lost electric power 10 mins ago even though the wind has become light

Storm Struck wrote: ↑Sat 14/10/2023 16:50 Winds are actually stronger now than before and more W-NW rather than NW earlier.
Just watched a big maple get stripped from the top and rain down on the neighborhood.

Same here. Winds are as strong as they’ve been all day. Fire calls increasing.

Howling gales earlier this afternoon; then the wind eased, though still the odd strong gust. Went for a walk - saw where the wind had lifted part of the roof off Southern Cross Hospital on Bealey Ave.

Sorry to hear about all the damage further north. Hope it will be made right soon.

Looking like no power will come on again till tomorrow here.
The max wind speed gust got to 90 kph at 2m, not sure what that is converted to the standard 10m

Richard wrote: ↑Sat 14/10/2023 19:17 Looking like no power will come on again till tomorrow here.
The max wind speed gust got to 90 kph at 2m, not sure what that is converted to the standard 10m

Roughly 113 kph at the standard 10m

trickytiger wrote: ↑Sat 14/10/2023 19:52

Richard wrote: ↑Sat 14/10/2023 19:17 Looking like no power will come on again till tomorrow here.
The max wind speed gust got to 90 kph at 2m, not sure what that is converted to the standard 10m

Roughly 113 kph at the standard 10m

Thank you. We've had a lot worse than that.

A spy in Purau says he wind is back up as strong as it was earlier.

Interesting to hear about the winds today. Sounds worse that the 2013 gales and the "Big blow" of 1975
Apparently the Coastal Pacific train was held up around the Scargill area as a tree was blown across the tracks.

Wind wasn't to bad in South Canterbury, NW/SW Winds a couple of weeks ago were much stronger.

Wind has risen again here and rain hitting the west and north windows.

Yesterday definitely not as bad here as, say, July 18 last year, I didn't like that one.

12.3°C at the moment, quite a good rain falling. Smell of petrichor drifting into the house.

snowstormwatcher wrote: ↑Sun 15/10/2023 07:53 Wind wasn't to bad in South Canterbury, NW/SW Winds a couple of weeks ago were much stronger.

Yes, looks like some gusts were a bit higher yesterday between about Ashburton and Castlepoint in the N.I. than the more widespread Oct 02 event. Here's some numbers for yesterday:

Notable MetService Gusts (km/h) on Oct 14
204 .. Le Bons Bay
141 .. Sugar Loaf
133 .. Cape Turnagain
130 .. Castlepoint
130 .. Mount Cook
126 .. New Brighton
124 .. Secretary Island
117 .. Kaikōura
115 .. Darfield
109 .. Methven
106 .. Lyttelton
104 .. Kelburn
100 .. Christchurch Airport
94 ... Nugget Point
91 ... Ashburton Airport

Notable NIWA Gusts (km/h) on Oct 14
183 .. Mount Potts - (2128m asl)
172 .. Castle Mount - (2000m asl)
142 .. Upper Rakaia - (1752m asl)
132 .. Mt Philistine - (1655m asl)
115 .. Mueller Hut - (1818m asl)
169 .. Waipara
113 .. Cheviot
111 .. Baring Head
98 ... Winchmore
96 ... Bromley
95 ... Akaroa
95 ... Diamond Harbour
91 ... Lincoln

Edit: Waipara gusts updated

Also love these hand-drawn isobaric analysis maps from MS...

Plenty of the more reliable private weather stations around here were measuring gusts of 140kmh plus, and most of those are not at 10m. The damage around the place is consistent with gusts to 150kmh.

I've just amended NIWA's Waipara gusts above, which according to Cliflo recorded 169 km/h yesterday...

Wee bit of activity sneaking accross the back of the Peninsula. Akaroa may get a small storm

TonyT wrote: ↑Sun 15/10/2023 12:36 Plenty of the more reliable private weather stations around here were measuring gusts of 140kmh plus, and most of those are not at 10m. The damage around the place is consistent with gusts to 150kmh.

Not surprised of those wind speeds, between Amberley Waipara has taken the most of the brunt. There was a 80+ year old blue gum up rooted east side of SH1 just north of Amberley, poor old tree would have endured many severe gale over its lifespan but couldn't stand up to that one.

Just got our power back on after 24h with out.

I see it’s gusting 180 km/h at Cape Turnagain tonight

Make that 204km/h as of 11.07pm