New Zealand braces for worst cyclone in 50 YEARS - as winds up to 150km/h

[Martin4Jay]

New Zealand braces for worst cyclone in 50 YEARS - as winds up to 150km/h and torrential rain lash the country

New Zealand braces for Cyclone Cook | Daily Mail Online

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[TokWW]

Most people are forgetting about Cyclone Bola of March 1988 - (less than 30 years ago - memory lapse?)  which was our most costliest damaging cyclone recorded.  Although not passing directly down Nth Island as Cook is destined to, it went to the west but the damaging easterly winds crossed the whole NI from Gisborne to Taranaki.

As recorded in Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclone_Bola

Cyclone Bola created some of the heaviest rainfall totals for a single storm in the history of New Zealand, with some locations receiving more than half of their annual rainfall totals from the storm. While the cyclone passed north of the island, a strong easterly flow over the North Island contained the interaction between moist air from Bola and drier air from the ridge to its southeast. In the Gisborne region, the flow resulted in the heaviest rainfall totals, when the moisture ascended over the region's western mountainous areas and condensed into precipitation. One station recorded 419 mm (16.5 in) in a 24‑hour period.[9] The maximum rainfall total attributed to the storm was 917 mm (36.1 in), reported at a station near Tolaga Bay.[1] Heavy rainfall totals of up to and over 300 mm (12 in) were observed in the regions of Auckland and Northland.[9] The cyclone is the largest to be recorded in 93 years of rainfall records.





Highest winds   10-minute sustained: 165 km/h (105 mph)
1-minute sustained: 195 km/h (120 mph)
Lowest pressure   940 hPa (mbar); 27.76 inHg

The excessively high wind gusts flattened significant sections of the Kinleith Forest and there was a massive thrust to bring in the fallen timber and process it before it rotted on the ground in the forest.

[Martin4Jay]

Interesting thanks for the explination

[Mark]

Dont think its gong to be as bad as they say.

[Martin4Jay]

Cyclone Cook: New Zealand's worst storm 'in generations' makes land | The Independent

[Martin4Jay]

Lets hope so thinking about you all

[Martin4Jay]

the story so far
Cyclone Cook due to touch down between 7pm and 8pm.
All flights have been suspended in Tauranga, some flights have been cancelled in Auckland.
State of Emergency declared in Thames-Coromandel District and Bay of Plenty Region.
The wild weather brought flooding, power cuts and slips last night and early this morning.
Ex-tropical Cyclone Cook is charging towards the country, likely to make landfall at the Western Bay of Plenty around dusk this evening, Wellington around midnight, and Dunedin at midday tomorrow.
Properties, homes in coastal Bay of Plenty (around Ohope) evacuated.
New Zealand Defence Force has placed 500 personnel on standby to help.


https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/thousands-without-power-in-hawkes-bay-ex-tropical-cyclone-cook-slams-north-islands-east-coast

[Martin4Jay]

Cyclone Cook path: New Zealand at threat as state of emergency declared
Cyclone Cook latest news - New Zealand threatened with state of emergency over weather | Weather | News | Express.co.uk

[Martin4Jay]

As it happened: Ex-Tropical Cyclone Cook hits BOP hardest but leaves east of both islands battered, saturated

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/happened-ex-tropical-cyclone-cook-hits-bop-hardest-but-leaves-east-both-islands-battered-saturated

[Wolfie33]

Thursday 13th April 2017
Like I said in the weather chat, a generally calm & wet day, rain totals of 27 at the wharf 21 across town, a low 12 for me, & 20/30 up in the ranges. I had watched the rain radar all afternoon & it looked like the storm centre was heading straight for Opotiki.

I heard reports of wind gusts of 170k+ at White Island, evacuations of some parts of Ohope & the small settlement of Opape some 15k east of Opotiki. I was told it was more like high tide at low tide.

Cooks winds kicked in from about 6pm, things were banging around the neighbourhood, the house was shuddering often feeling like a minor earthquake, ranchsliders rattled, & windows wistled. The lights flickered 4/5 times for an hour, the PC rebooted 3 times while I tried to write an email . . . & then power just cut out at 7pm. Inside was pitch black & my solar LED lamps didn't even deign to glow, such was the days gloom. I sat outside for 40 odd mins, had a couple of cold ones & talked amongst myself.

I soon became bored with the company so went to bed around 8pm. Not used to that so the body clock went a tad haywire, woke at 11pm & a good bit calmer, then dozed /woke for a few hours before getting some 90mins sleep.

I woke around 6am this morning, partly cloudy, calmish, moon & late stars out. Maybe an hour later the sounds of chainsaws echoed about as clean up gangs began.

An interesting night to say the least

[Martin4Jay]

Thursday 13th April 2017[/b]
Like I said in the weather chat, a generally calm & wet day, rain totals of 27 at the wharf 21 across town, a low 12 for me, & 20/30 up in the ranges. I had watched the rain radar all afternoon & it looked like the storm centre was heading straight for Opotiki.

I heard reports of wind gusts of 170k+ at White Island, evacuations of some parts of Ohope & the small settlement of Opape some 15k east of Opotiki. I was told it was more like high tide at low tide.

Cooks winds kicked in from about 6pm, things were banging around the neighbourhood, the house was shuddering often feeling like a minor earthquake, ranchsliders rattled, & windows wistled. The lights flickered 4/5 times for an hour, the PC rebooted 3 times while I tried to write an email . . . & then power just cut out at 7pm. Inside was pitch black & my solar LED lamps didn't even deign to glow, such was the days gloom. I sat outside for 40 odd mins, had a couple of cold ones & talked amongst myself.

I soon became bored with the company so went to bed around 8pm. Not used to that so the body clock went a tad haywire, woke at 11pm & a good bit calmer, then dozed /woke for a few hours before getting some 90mins sleep.

I woke around 6am this morning, partly cloudy, calmish, moon & late stars out. Maybe an hour later the sounds of chainsaws echoed about as clean up gangs began.

An interesting night to say the least

Thanks for this and glad your all safe