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Hey thanks Steven
this is a great BBS software...it has great features :)

thanks for making it available...

4:30pm monday: heavy rain band moving down onto us from the north ...only 3mm so far today though, central auckland city got lots more...

its been one strange weather system...late sunday it had all but dried up and died!
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No worries, Brian

Registered users will have to change the time offset in their profile when we put the clocks back this weekend but that's not too big a hassle :)

Even 3mm would be welcome rain down here. Just 15.2mm for February and 0.8mm so far this month - it was wet when I was in ChCh on Saturday morning but dry out here !

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14mm here now, 7pm, very nice welcome rain....
<img src="http://www.weather-display.com/otherdat.gif">

see the barometer jump, that was actualy around moon rise, surprisingly...(coincidence?) ....but ...local thunderstorm activity was probably a better explanation....:)

I see ECMWF has a TC just passing to the east of NZ over the weekend.....
will be interesting
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You need to use the "BBCode" buttons for embedding images, URLs, etc - I think it's to avoid the possibility of confusing the HTML. You just highlight the text and click to add the square bracketed tags:

http://www.weather-display.com/otherdat.gif

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11/3 11:09 Changed to URL as img was forcing a wide display.
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Thank you steven for this forum.

Brian, re the TC. It could be intersting to watch the AWS at Raoul Island.
But for NZ, this storm may pass off to far to the east. Pity.

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humm, that image is an old one!
LOL
i will try again...
this current low:
it looked to me like a jet stream activiated it....more...
you could see the tell tale thin arching cloud line.....that speared it....overnight...and cauased the clouds to cool more.....or something like that....
and it moved south enough to get the rain into the auckland area....it has been raining lots in the bay of islands to kaitia area for the prevoius 2 days......
i would have hated to be a met service foreaster....
i think more visual ground reports and more fine tuning of the forecast (i.e showers norht of albany,and isolated further south), would have, in hinsight (such a wonderful thing) been better.
35mm was recorded at Bryndwern today....(mid nothland, south of whangerei), and 16mm there yesterday...

some hefty cb;s in sydney too today.,,...

TC: time will tell....if it moves enough SW like it is at the moment...
hey, it might be another Bola, who knows.
time will telll....
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yes Brain I agree jet stream formed, it is very extensive 32000ft - 39000ft winds constant at 100kts for 250nm north of NZ aligned NE/SW and flowing NE.
A great blocker.
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:) Cheers Stephen for this new weather forum,and thanks Brian for the message.
Boring weather down this way at present,nights are cooling off now,looking forward to winter.
Spent the weekend at Mt Cook,fantastic weather for tramping with the large high that sat over the South Island over the weekend,temps peaked around 25 each day.
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Woops...forgot to log on above,
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Low must be over the Auckland area at the moment. It has been raining
heavily here since early morning. The fluctuating intensity suggests the
rain is convective. Some very heavy burst around 5am. Over 60mm here
this morning.

7am Light Easterly, Heavy Rain ,Temp 17C
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That previous guest was....forgot to log in
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I've changed the forum permissions so that you can only post or reply if you're registered and logged in :)

You can still read messages as a guest so I think that's reasonable.

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(and you can tick to auto log in)
we have had 68mm now from 5pm to 8am
see:
http://ps.gen.nz/~windy/otherdat.htm
40mm or so in central city area
52mm in west auckland

some drains overflowing a bit now...it can stop raining now...!
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If yesterday was muggy then today must be tueggy , but instead in Auckland is has turned out to be soggy with generally 40 to 60mm rain from the wrap cloud of that Low. Its 9:30am and still light rain from Ns cloud.

Fiji Met have named ESETA995hPa neat 17S 172E
and renamed ERICA near 13S 159E (knocking on their western border , 160E)
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things are changing....the wind is more aorund to the SE to SSE here now....but still raining...(10am)
there has been an incrediable amount of rain on the rain radar out in the tasman...
and a surprising dry slot over the eastern waikato area....
Greg, your cambridge weather page is not updating...????
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interesting that erica has reformed,....i guess as it moved north, it got back into favourbale conditions....
i wonder if 1 of these has our name on it....
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Freash southerly here now but still raining quite heavily at times.
Over 100mm so far today but I expect this rain to ease up soon.

Brian is your Central City observing site you refer to, St Heliers. This is a fair way away from the cbd, more an eastern suburb.

Looking forward to some sun tomorrow.
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yup, thats the one, yeah, half way to howick, but at central as we have online...

we are nearly up to 100mm here now too, 98.2mm

so this will be a missed 100mm in 24 hour weather warning event, as at 3:30pm (through to 4:30) yesterday we had had only 3mm for the day
so, 5mm more and it will be 100mm in 24 hours

one of the heaviest rainfalls in years :)
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From memory, the wettest day for Auckland city was 165mm recorded about January 1984. But you are correct Brian, we rarely exceed 100mm in 24hours.

The heaviest fall i know of in the Auckland region is the 122mm in one
hour at Leigh back in 2000. Many years ago I drove into a phenomenal
storm at Whenuapai....the Met Service guage there recorded 156mm
in 3 hours, a nearby farm guage recorded over 250mm.
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I remember hitting some almighty wall of water on the Southern MWay about 1986ish. Motorway traffic was actually stopped both ways down near Ramarama for 1 to 2 minutes as the visibility dropped to 10m and three inches of water on the road that appeared instantly! I know it was about three inch as my mate hopped out of the car and it went over the top of his shoes. LOL!

Then about 11 years ago we stopped at Orewa on the way back north for a walk on the beach when the temperature started going down, and down... until it was absolutely freezing, Fortunately we got back in the car before this black mass of large hail and howling gales hit us! One serious Cb.

Unfortunately, I wasn't a chaser then so didn't pay that much attention to them. Had I been weather-wise then - I would be rapt ...and single :)
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what a beautiful bright and sunny day in stark contrast to the rain of yesterday!!!!
(but thats what you expect from a SSE in this neck of the woods)
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was that around november of that year Cbfan?
if so, then i was on that same stretch of motorway,.....
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Hiya Brian,

It may not have been that late, possibly Mid-Oct.

We were coming back from the mountain (prefer to climb during the melt - more fun :) but may have been a late trip. Sorry I can't nail it for you.

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