Extreme Weather
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And to make matters worse there's a near guarantee of another year of La Nina and negative Indian dipole. Only problem of course is there's nowhere for the water to go., The ground is sodden.
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@taniwharugby it's crazy. Catching up with a few mates down there, some evacuated, some couldn't get home so raiding the wine cellar of the person they're staying with.
But it's nuts. Red stickering houses, the Maitai has twice (!) the flow ever recorded on it (admittedly short duration, but still). Ugly times.
and this is the new normal.
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@nzzp yeah that report earlier this week that effectively said houses in coastal regions will be uninsurable by 2040 predicts 'one in a hundred year storms' will be an annual event by the end of the decade.
Poor coasties probably think they're a weekly event even now.
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She's been a wet old winter, I think the whole of July had weather watches or warnings at least 1 time a week up here.
Hasn't been too bad in Whangarei, but i see Kaeo copping it as always...was up there and Matauri Bay last week on a cool but clear day, such a contrast.
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
Kaeo
Pretty much the worst place for a town huh?
What amazes me is how Kaiata escapes when you look at the catchment that goes through that narrow part of the valley.
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@booboo guess cos that strip of the country is so narrow things pass pretty quickly?
I remember one time playing golf up at Ahipara, we arrived at 8am, had been pissing half the night, rain going sideways, fork lightning on the Ta$man, half hour later, warm and clear, slight breeze, sand based course drained brilliantly.
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Top of the SI still getting hammered and gonna get another heavy dose overnight tonight!
Far North had a hammering too.
Whangaroa
Kaeo
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
Far North had a hammering too.
We’re on standby to deploy for that, pretty bad up there
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@Machpants are you part of Civil Defence, SAR or you still in Military?
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
@Machpants are you part of Civil Defence, SAR or you still in Military?
St John Major Incident Team, volly
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Looks like that's nearing the end of major rain up here, most of it now going out to the west and south. Hopefully thinks will start to calm by the end of the day fingers crossed
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@Machpants yeah the top of the south stay on a red warning until tomorrow!
Been tracking the system here and when you use thier modelling you see how the system is just hanging about the top of the south and spreading down the coast
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
@Machpants yeah the top of the south stay on a red warning until tomorrow!
Been tracking the system here and when you use thier modelling you see how the system is just hanging about the top of the south and spreading down the coast
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Bugger, looks like there is possibly more beyond the radar, I see the forecast has changed as you said. Initially warning was untill11AM now midnight
Not as much as we've had, but just on top of current mess -
@Machpants I think that is more north of Whangarei, we had 75mm in past 36 hours, but only 10mm overnight last night, but was more the gusts of wind that had me concerned.
Ironically when I was at Whangaroa College last week, I actually mentioned flood risks (in relation to insurance) when talking to some kids there
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
@Machpants I think that is more north of Whangarei, we had 75mm in past 36 hours, but only 10mm overnight last night, but was more the gusts of wind that had me concerned.
Ironically when I was at Whangaroa College last week, I actually mentioned flood risks (in relation to insurance) when talking to some kids there
Yeah we cover from Reinga to Silverdale, and can even go further south if assets nneed to be deployed.
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man some huge numbers for the water flow
The Wairoa River, flowing at 158 cubic metres at 8pm Friday, had reached 1290 cumecs by 7am on Saturday.
To put that into perspective, the Maitai River at its peak on Wednesday was around 450 cumecs.
If you're having trouble visualising that volume, Nelson Ta$man Civil Defence spokesman Alec Louverdis, when talking about the Maitai river at a stand up on Thursday, told media a cumec was the equivalent size of a VW Beetle.
The Takaka River also saw a startling rise, going from 557 cumecs to 1286 cumecs when measured at Kotinga.
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Apparently I'm World Famous in Queensland.
Mrs Boo noticed the wave shaped cloud pattern in the attached photo this evening, so I snapped a pic.
Google tells me it is a Kelvin-Helmholtz cloud.
Sent it in to ABC Weather about 5.30.
Friend of Mrs Boo just texted that said photo made the Qld TV weather report.
Cannot confirm yet though. Trying to find video. Will post if available.
Attached photo crops some of the skiting view in original photo...
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