Bo-Jangles

Nice weather for ducks - brace yourselves for yet another of our one in a 100 years weather events today.

BEVS

Goodness me.

Not....weather.

Perish the thought.

Bo-Jangles

There's always one:

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Stuck in Auckland

Like Thursday night?

Once a week

Bo-Jangles

I'm sure we must have reached that point where it is no longer 'good for the garden'.

MrsFychan

or trying to watch the TV, to blinkin loud.

Bo-Jangles

The Tasman Tempest rages on; we've long since moved on from 'Good for the Garden' and I think we're now at 'Biblical Proportions'.

MrsFychan

What you need to know:

The Tasman tempest weather system is back, bringing more rain to a sodden North Island
Severe gales are possible for Northland
Aucklanders face the chance of tornados, potentially damaging winds and heavy rain from about midday Sunday
Heavy rain is forecast for the eastern Bay of Plenty
Aucklanders and Hamiltonians are urged to conserve water
Wellington has surface flooding, with heavy rain and isolated thunderstorms expected until Sunday afternoon.

stay safe everyone, especially you Jafa's, keep an eye out for suspected tornadoes.

scrubbedexpat094

I was picking the OH up from the ferry ( which was a bus because of the weather) on Friday evening. I was sat in my car when another torrential rainstorm moved in, there was a huge gust of wind that lifted the right-hand side of my car slightly. It was rather freaky . I believe that there was a mini tornado in Stanmore Bay around the same time.

Who is it says the weather's better in NZ ?

jmh

Even the ducks look a bit sad around here today. Crikey. At least my neighbour has figured out that if he takes the leaves out of storm water drain he won't get flooded!

jmh

We have had a terrible summer and, with the approaching solar minimum, the poor weather is likely to continue. This is likely to apply in the UK as well. Keep a close eye on the weather before you go back - it is due to change. Some say we are approaching another Maunder Minimum which was correlated with the little age ice when the Thames froze over. Just saying, eyes open.

Bo-Jangles

I think there'll be a lot of people in West Auckland in need of a ferry service to get to work tomorrow.

Live: Flooding strikes scores of Auckland homes as storm spreads across North Island | Stuff.co.nz

scrubbedexpat094

Cool. I'd rather have snow and ice than rain and humidity

scrubbedexpat094

Looks like it. There are clues about New Zealand's climate though, for example, The land of the long, white cloud or all the references to how green it is

BEVS

No consolation at all but it's been rubbish down here too . Currently we are all a-sog & the ducks have taken to the car port which is a soggy free zone.

It is all MrBEVS fault of course . He was the one insisting on the Intex Para Pool for the ......erm..... summer.

Not sure the vineyards need these rains right now. Anymore than the pip fruit growers needed the wind/hail storms .