Light rain is now falling in Wellington as a low pressure system moves onto the country bringing much needed rains throughout the North Island.
The above image from the NOAA weather supercomputer’s short range forecast model shows the path of the wet weather system over the country in the next 30 hours. Rain is shown in the coloured lines with each line representing 1mm of rain in a six hour period.
Click on the links below to
see the forecast path of the wet weather system, and see how
much rain is forecast for your area.
This morning:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/rain1.gif
This
afternoon:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/rain2.gif
This
evening:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/rain3.gif
Overnight:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/rain4.gif
Unfortunately this week’s spell of rain is not forecast to bring much rain to the drought affected South Island with the system expected to swiftly move off the country to the East.
However, as the image below shows, more April rains may well arrive just in time for black Friday April the 13th, and the Easter break.
Links
to images showing the path of the Easter rain
system…
April 11th:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/apr11th.gif
April
12th am:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/apr12th1.gif
April
12th pm:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/apr12th2.gif
April
13th:
http://img.scoop.co.nz/stories/images/aprilrain/apr13th.gif
Note:
These images are taken from the outer limits of the NOAA
medium range forecast model and cannot be considered
particularly
reliable.