Rain Watch – 11th April 2012

[JennyLeez]

Report your rainfall throughout the Day here either in Millimeters or just the conditions. You do not need a Weather Station to do this.

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[OhauitiWeather]

16:30 The rain has finally arrived from the NW pretty much in the time frame predicted.  Cloud has been building up since late morning.

18.20 The Motherload of rain has now arrived, it is now fair precipitating down.

19:50 Current rainfall rate is 7.2mm per hour, Sky TV as rain fade and the sound of the rain on the Caravan roof is quite intense especially since we have not heard it for over 10 days.
Rainfall Today 16.2 mm
Rainfall Rate 7.2 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month 17.4 mm
Rainfall This Year 393.4 mm
Rainfall Last Hour 7.8 mm
Last rainfall 2012-04-11 19:48

20:10 Easing a bit here now, Sorry Guys but the Rain Radar suggests that you guys in HB & Gizzy way will get what we have had/are getting over the next few hours or so.  Looks like a typical NW frontal rain band, should be all over in less than 8/10 hours.  having said that it has just got heavier here again now but the TV is back, yay!

21:50 Rain has eased back to occassional showers, a couple quite heavy. 20.1mm so far today.  The wind has increased over the last hour or so.
Highest Gust 43 km/h at 20:26
Highest Speed (10 minute average) 21 km/h (F4)   at 21:49
Wind Run   123.8 km   
Dominant Direction   10° N

22:40  Heavy Squall just going through here, 29km wind Gust from NW and 0.3 rainfall so far.  Total rain so far is now 20.4mm since 16:30
   
23:52  Semi Regular heavy Squalls coming through about every 15 - 20 Minutes. lat squall equalled our Daily High Wind Gust of 42km so they are getting stronger.  Expecting more squalls overnight.
Rainfall Today 24.9 mm
Rainfall Rate 7.2 mm/hr
Rainfall This Month   26.1 mm
Rainfall This Year 402.1 mm
Rainfall Last Hour 4.2 mm
Last rainfall 2012-04-11 23:49

[ato2]

New Plymouth: 9mm to 7.20pm.

[Mark]

29mm here

[JennyLeez]

1.5 today, just starting.
Forecast for tonight =

[Suezy]

Gosh looks like it has gone your way Jenny looked at the rain radar.
We have had 13.8 mm so far since midnight and last night to midnight was 4.0  Storm total 17.8mm.
It can stop now as want to do concreting tomorrow thank you.
Saw the totals for OhauitiWeather of 393.4 and that is a lot of rain.

[OhauitiWeather]

Rainfall This Year 402.1 mm, from 1 January 2012, unfortunately I don't have access to last years comparative totals from this computer but I think we are down on last year to the same date but will check tomorrow & update this post.

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Update 12/04/12:
Rainfall last year, manually recorded and at a location 1.2km further up Ohauiti Road than our current Location, 186m above sea level compared to our current 125m.
Rainfall for period 01/01/11 - 04/04/11 - 545.0
Rainfall for period 01/01/12 - 12/04/12 - 435.2
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That is probably still undersated as I have been having some recording issues with my Rain gague.  Have just installed a new traditional wedge manual gague on top of a post approx 50m away from my Electronic one.  Will be interested to compare notes tomorrow after this rain.

[JennyLeez]

Ohauiti Weather here are my figures for comparison.

Rainfall for same period for Wairoa.
1st January to 11th April 2010 376.5mm
1st January to 11th April 2011 510.0mm
1st January to 11th April 2012 555.3mm

[TokWW]

Tokoroa -

From 4:40pm on Wednesday to 02:56am Thursday, nearly 10.5 hrs, we had 65.2mm of rain.  The highest rain total for a whole hour was 16.1mm from 21:25 to 22:26. 

This was the first rain in 11 days since 30th March when we just had 0.5mm and that was after a period of 5 days dry as well.

[ato2]

17mm for me in New Plymouth. Dried up after midnight.

New Plymouth airport is showing double that amount.