Drought - rain totals across NZ for the last 30 days

[David]

All this data is sourced from Metservice website. Feel free to add your own figures by replying to this thread. For Howick, I have recorded 4.2mm last 30 days, and 32mm for the year so far.



LOCATION             30 day total     2013 total
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Cape Reinga              7.6              28
Kerikeri                 3.6              74
Whangarei                3.6              26
Whangaparoa              1.0              11
Auckland (airport)       3.8              37
Hamilton                 1.0              34
Whitianga               18.2              57
Paeroa                   1.6              37
Tauranga                 4.0              37
Rotorua                  0.2              10
Whakatane                0.2              25
Hicks Bay                5.6              60
Gisborne                18.0              63
Mahia                   19.2              96
Napier                   1.8              35
Hastings                 1.6              28
Te Kuiti                 5.8              62
Taupo                    0.4              32
Taumaranui               1.0              80
Waiouru                  0.6              31
New Plymouth            10.6              96
Wanganui                 0.0              85
Hawera                   0.0             113
Palmerston North         0.8              68
Levin                    2.2             129
Masterton                0.4              65
Castlepoint              5.4              48
Paraparaumu              2.2             146
Lower Hutt               0.0             222
Wellington (airport)     3.6             129
Wellington (Kelburn)     2.8             153
Mana Island              0.6             150
Brothers Island          1.4             106

Farewell Spit            0.6              91
Nelson                   1.2             142
Blenheim                 0.0              99
Cape Campbell            1.8              84
Kaikoura                17.6             127
Westport (airport)       5.0             242
Westport                 6.8             336
Reefton                  4.4             310
Hokitika                 6.4             178
Christchurch (airport)   0.8              59
Lyttleton                1.6              37
Le Bons Bay              1.2              74
Ashburton                4.6              98
Timaru                   7.2              81
Oamaru                   3.4             105
Oamaru (airport)         7.0              75
Dunedin (city)          10.2             115
Dunedin (airport)        6.0              52
Wanaka                   2.6             104
Tara Hills               1.6             115
Queenstown               4.4             154
Gore                     8.8             179
Lumsden                  9.0             180
Invercargill            32.4             208
Haast                   21.4             375
Milford Sound           40.4             821
Manapouri               23.8             196
Secretary Island       171.2             565

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[einzack]

a note: the Reefton data you have listed is actually for Springs Junction which is 45km further inland and 435m elevation vs 200m for Reefton.
Reefton has a NIWA station, but Metservice don't use this, and uses Springs instead as the 'Reefton' station. I have asked them why but they haven't replied - the weather is often rather different.

The Reefton NIWA site shows: 0.4mm & 244mm
My station shows: 0.5mm & 223mm

[JennyLeez]

David have you the dates re the last 30 days. This will help with manual calculations.
Much of the East Coast rain for Feb was early month which would not count going back 30 days from today.

Anyways I have this taken as at 30 days back from today.

Wairoa : 39.0 and Year 156.9
Nuhaka   43.0 and Year 172.5
Frasertown 48.0 and Year 160.9
Lake Waikaremoana 39.1 and Year 125.4
Mahia Beach 16.2 and Year 31.8

I should send these to the Metservice as their coverage of the rainfall in NZ this month has no record of us over here on the east
This is quite a large area when you consider Nuhaka to the Lake is 90 odd ks

[David]

Jenny, last 30 days is from 7 February to 8 March.

[JennyLeez]

Below is the New Zealand Weather Network Forum's Tally for the Year.
Stations who have been offline during the year to date have been excluded.
This report includes 78 Stations compared to the above list of 61

[Rwood]

Mt Cook village would top all the above totals - it had 1018mm in January. Not much since though, judging by Arthurs Pass.

[Suezy]

David our total for West Melton from 7th Feb to date is  0.8 mm in total.
 The same as Christchurch Airport.  Our total to date for 2013 is 64.2 mm where we had a couple of good falls early in Feb and also Jan.
Trust this is what you require.

[gabba]

Hi all


The Maungaraki total is incorrect. Had something weird going on with the rain measurements that I'm not sure if it's fixed or not (it hasn't rained long enough recently to test it!) I have corrected the totals based on data from a NIWA station not far from here, so they should be accurate

Total for year to date =217.4mm. We had 0.2mm this morning, but apart from that we haven't seen rain for around 6 weeks

Cheers

[JennyLeez]

HI Gabba,
I have messaged requesting a break down of your rain totals for Jan, Feb and March so I can fix our spreadsheet.
Thanks

[Rwood]

I thought that Maungaraki total looked crazy! (was over double Kelburn).

[JennyLeez]

Spreadsheet & Graph now altered 

[Suezy]

I notice that the MetService has listed Airports and then the city associated with them.  Why have they only listed Christchurch Airport and not Christchurch City itself as well.  Surely that was not damaged in the quakes - unless it was attached to a building somewhere - which I doubt.
My one stood up to the huge 7.1 one and being  not far from the faultline and is about the only thing that wasnt damaged.

[einzack]

doing a comparison with 2012 shows we're only 50mm behind in terms of rainfall from January 1st.
so that's why we're not as bad as many.