Joined: Aug 23, 2004 Posts: 705 Location: Frost Free in New Zealand
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject: 'No ordinary storm' to strike New Zealand
Happy to be just watching this one after several days of wind and hail
have hammered my tamarillo crop
Some of you in the North Island must be battening down for this one
..The unnamed low which originated in the tropics is coming from the Queensland coast, and was more intense than the current typical winter storm.
"This is no ordinary storm. It's one of the largest and deepest lows we've seen for some years," MetService spokesman Brian Kreft said.
"By the time this system reaches northern New Zealand on Saturday, it is likely to have significant destructive potential."
Damaging gales and very heavy downpours were possible in many North Island areas, and strong winds would create treacherous seas...
More to come the middle of next week looking at The seven day animated forecast _________________ Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us. What shall we do to be invoked; to be remembered in the earth.
We have tried with our first creatures but we could not make them venerate us.
So let us try to make obedient respectful beings who shall
A weather front that one forecaster says could be "the most intense sub-tropical storm of the decade" is expected to tear down the east coast of the North Island today.
The tropical storm is tipped to bring heavy rain, huge seas and howling wind and at 9am lay about 300km north west of Cape Reinga.
MetService has issued over a dozen rain and wind warnings for the top half of New Zealand.
Radio Network weather analyst Philip Duncan said this morning winds had started to create an "eye" for the storm, which was now being classified as a "weather bomb".
He said wind gusts of 133km/h had already been recorded in the Far North.
"We are now expecting the eye of the storm to pass directly over, or very near to, Auckland with the air pressure expected to fall to staggering 959hPa which could cause a significant surge across all low lying eastern areas from Thames northwards".
Mr Duncan said winds in exposed northern regions could gust to 150km/h and 180km/h in parts of the eastern Waikato.
"The predicted air pressure in this depression is unbelievably low and mimics that of modest Atlantic Hurricanes that hit America," he said...
_________________ Let us make him who shall nourish and sustain us. What shall we do to be invoked; to be remembered in the earth.
We have tried with our first creatures but we could not make them venerate us.
So let us try to make obedient respectful beings who shall
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