Extreme Weather
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So the shit weather just keeps on coming.
So many parts of NZ under watches and warnings with narrow 'river' of rain travelling near enough north to south down from the tropics.
Saw something today saying we had had 80% of our annual rainfall already this year in whangarei, I think it was Napier has had 110%, assume Auckland, Coromandel along with other areas must be up there too.
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@mariner4life you all prepped for Jasper?
Just a little one to kick off summer?
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I've bought a gas bottle and beer
So yes
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@taniwharugby said in Extreme Weather:
So the shit weather just keeps on coming.
So many parts of NZ under watches and warnings with narrow 'river' of rain travelling near enough north to south down from the tropics.
Saw something today saying we had had 80% of our annual rainfall already this year in whangarei, I think it was Napier has had 110%, assume Auckland, Coromandel along with other areas must be up there too.
That does not surprise me one little bit. Normally this time of year we have to run the hose for a period most nights to keep the garden wet enough for the plants. Well I have been up home for the best part of three years on and off and almost entirely for the last 12 months and during these last 12 months have not once had the hoses running apart from time to time watering the veges which are growing in very soft quick draining soils. In fact some of the flowerbeds are still so wet that water can almost be squeezed out of the clumps of soil that form big root balls around the weeds when you pull them out!
The farmers will not be doing their usual rain dances they usually have to do this time of year as the hills brown off and become really dry. Strangely enough we have only had one rain off in club cricket from the nine playing Saturdays so far this season. -
@taniwharugby I think Akl hit 100% in early Winter
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From Stuff
In June, Auckland officially recorded its average annual rainfall, with rainfall monitor at Auckland Airport ticking over 1193mm of rain, 3mm above the supercity's annual norm. Translated to an average rainfall per day, (by dividing the figures by 214), the average daily rainfall in Auckland for 2023 is 5.9mm per day
Beat record in November
Auckland Airport records wettest year since reporting began
2023 beats the previous record holder 1979 with two months to spare.
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@mariner4life said in Extreme Weather:
I've bought a gas bottle and beer
So yes
And yet again, I question Mrs TA's decision to go to Cairns in high summer...
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Lol Willis Island Radar, east of Cairns.
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So it's very fucking wet in Cairns. Having already copped a metre of rain in 4 days, we've now had up to half a metre today
All the dams are over, rivers are at record levels. We're cut off in all directions, and as you see above, the airport will be out of action for probably tomorrow as well.And the rain just will not let up
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@mariner4life
Thought Jasper was fucking off west but it just seems to keep dumping rain on you.Not sure if the following link works showing the last week of rain, but maximum calibration is 400mm which pretty obviously doesn't capture realty...
Your radar has looked like this since Wednesday ...
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDR193.loop.shtml
Forecast to keep like this till Tuesday...
Hope you live up a hill...
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Yeah I'm tucked in to the mountains so all good
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The good news is the dams on the farm are full again. So no more thrice daily checks to see if cattle are attempting suicide.
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@antipodean said in Extreme Weather:
The good news is the dams on the farm are full again. So no more thrice daily checks to see if cattle are attempting suicide.
You're down our way huh? On Tinana Creek?
Been a few storms but as per not quite hitting Hervey Bay (although the edge of a decent one bowled through the eastern side of town last night ... not out our way ... the random effects of thunder storms).
Bloke killed in thunder storm in Brissy the other night:
- Massive winds (cyclone strength), big rain, and appears he may have tried to move a fallen branch with an overhead cable attached
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- Massive winds (cyclone strength), big rain, and appears he may have tried to move a fallen branch with an overhead cable attached
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so yesterday was a nearly unprecedented rain event. It is not, for now, raining in Cairns today, but there is rain forecast for later, and unfortunately in river catchment areas.
Still a lot of stranded people. The photos of the Port Douglas road don't look promising for that opening any time soon.
we're on water for emergency use only as the supplies of treated water dwindles, and the system is fucked up. some places still without power.
Been an interesting week
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@mariner4life doesn't seem right to upvote, hope you bought enough food and water, gas, before this rolled in?
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food maybe? booze definitely
and i filled all my big water canisters yesterday.
otherwise i'll just pull buckets out of the creekif the roads don't open she's gonna be a sad christmas though
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Apparently the Palmerston Highway is impassable unless you have a General Lee:
