Wild Land

Yesterday’s 20 mm of rain was welcome, after more than a fortnight without rain and a remarkably dry April.

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The most powerful storm to graze Australia’s Queensland coast since Tropical Cyclone Rona in 1999 has rapidly deepened overnight.

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The weather system which brought heavy rain to the West Coast, the Nelson region and the far north brought a short burst of steady rain to Tawa overnight.

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Tawa’s coldest overnight temperature this winter has left the birds skating on thin ice when they popped in for their morning ablutions in the bird bath.

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Tawa came close to experiencing snow for the first time in a few years yesterday. But a bouncing thermometer kept it at bay.

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Weather enthusiasts are up in arms over the misuse of the term “weather bomb” in relation to some of the stormy weather that has hit New Zealand in recent weeks.

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Rainfall is steady and relentless at Tawa this morning as the low pressure weather system continues to cause havoc in the South Island. Low cloud and mist hides the valley from view, and 32 mm of rain has been recorded in the five-and-a-half hours to 11 a.m.

The ground is sodden and run-off is high. Rainfall for July now stands at 205 mm, 748 mm for the year. Only 140 mm of rain was recorded for Tawa in July last year, 205 mm in 2006 and 124 mm in July of 2005.

At 11 o’clock the weather station at nearby Redwood also reported 32 mm of rain since 5:30.

Rainfall has been lower to the north, with only 15 mm recorded at Mana since the rain began at 5:30 this morning.

A southerly gale and driving rain kept many Wellingtonians indoors yesterday, Sunday the 29th of June 2008.

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Tawa’s climate during April 2008 was wetter than normal, although more than half of the month’s total fell on two days. Temperatures were close to normal, with the average temperature up slightly, but the highest temperature was lower than that previously recorded for April since records began in 2003.

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Heavy rain in the southern part of the Wellington region overnight has caused surface flooding and kept the Fire Service busy.

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The 22-day spell of dry weather was broken at Tawa this morning, when misty, drizzly conditions set in.

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A slight recovery during the last week of February 2008 has resulted in hydro lake storage levels paralleling the 1992 trend.

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The relentless decline in the level of New Zealand’s hydro-electric storage lakes has continued, and levels have now reached those seen during February of the crisis year 1992.

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New Zealand’s hydro-electric storage lakes continued to decline during the first half of February 2008.

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Lightning flashed, thunder boomed and gutters overflowed in many parts of the Wellington region this morning as Thor did a flyby in party mood.

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