Category: Storm

  • Santa’s Sou’wester is the best

    Good thing Santa has expert taylors and the best quality clothing for his epic journey because once he gets to the West Coast of North America he might need everything he can get plus a snorkel too. As you’ve no doubt seen by now we have a rainfall warning issued for us. This will be…

  • Maybe not snow for Christmas… but is this weekend close enough?

    So it’s increasingly looking like there is not much chance for a White Christmas Morning. More on that in a bit… However, there is at least a chance that we could have flakes in the air over the weekend and even into next week. There is some arctic high pressure just now pressing into the…

  • First loooong look at Christmas and Wet Sunday

    A couple have asked, so here’s the first look, at the very edges of the forecasts… for the Christmas period. This is the upperlevel temperature (to see if the air up high could support snow) and surface pressures for 4PM Christmas Eve Day (the furthest the models go): What that tells me is that around…

  • Rainfall Warning posted – 100 to 180mm for West and Inland sections

    The new forecast has indeed given us a rainfall warning. 100-180mm through Wednesday is pretty substantial. There really isn’t much else to say about the forecast. Rain and more rain, the heaviest looks to be coming this morning and midday but it will still be raining hard until Wednesday afternoon and night. Hope everyone has…

  • Showers this afternoon… then rain. Lots of it.

    It should be another quiet morning, possibly with a little sunshine before the clouds really start to roll in. We have what looks like a major rain maker on the way. By tomorrow midday we’ll be the target of a firehose from the SouthWest… See below: This is for Tuesday 4PM darkest areas are 30mm…