This happened Friday night before 9.30pm reports the NZ Herald. But as of 8am NSW time Saturday I can not see reports of local rain at Whangarei by the NZ Metservice dot com. Can anybody point me to rain data from Whangarei from pm Saturday? Thanks.
This happened Friday night before 9.30pm reports the NZ Herald. But as of 8am NSW time Saturday I can not see reports of local rain at Whangarei by the NZ Metservice dot com. Can anybody point me to rain data from Whangarei from pm Saturday? Thanks.
Item just on the Tele News said it was a once in 500 years flash storm. People heading home after the school holidays were trapped in their vehicles. Oddly enough it was fairly mild in Auckland but hit badly North and South of us, in Northland & around the Coromandel area where only 4WD’s & SUV’s were permitted on SH1, normal cars had to pay a Towie $40 to get across. Slips on SH25 & widespread power outages. 13 tourist hikers had an extra adventure , another night at Pinnacle Hut.
Metservice are now showing their 24 hour Cumulative rainfall map with 200mm indicated over an area around Whangarei.
Time consuming trying to locate a string of daily data for actual weather stations.
This might be useful:
www.metservice.com/towns-cities/locations/whangarei/past-weather
Thanks drrog for that link – I used to check the Metservice “Towns & Cities” often. Then when their www site was modernised I lost the way to that. Now I have it again thanks.
So the rain for Friday 17 Jul 2020 in Whangarei was a bit over 200mm after a fairly dry July till then.
I saw a press article mentioning that it was on a scale with the 2011 Cyclone Wilma rain that hit NZ.
This weather forecast from the printed NZ Herald on the 16th was sent in by a helpful reader. Widespread rain was forecast but little sign of a “500 year event”.
This thoughtful and pertinent Letter to Editor NZ Herald emailed to Oz by our sharp eyed spy. Can anybody find a link to Northland or Auckland Province daily rain extreme records?
Would any event beat the Jan 2011 Cyclone Wilma?