Thread: Te Ureweras Closed?

Originally Posted by wazza56

no, they are no longer a cyclone when the central pressure is above a certain level about 960 milibars, also wind strength which determines category 1 - 5, hence low wind and rain plenty of it

Tell the forest owners with millions of flattened trees it wasn't a cyclone.

Originally Posted by wazza56

no, they are no longer a cyclone when the central pressure is above a certain level about 960 milibars, also wind strength which determines category 1 - 5, hence low wind and rain plenty of it

That's where you are wrong the weather watch guy Philip Duncan keep saying that because it's lost it's tropical status it hasn't lost it's it's strength and one point when it was a New Zealand Waters after a come down past Auckland it got stronger than when it was at a tropical cyclone level that's what Philip Duncan message on the radio and on his website saying. Philip Dunn said when it comes ex-tropical cyclone it only loses it's tropical part not a cyclone part

https://about.metservice.com/our-com...ical-cyclones/

Re-classification as an ex-tropical cyclone does not necessarily mean the system has weakened, but rather that it has transformed into a completely different type of weather system. Ex-tropical cyclones may still have considerable potential for severe weather, and under the right meteorological conditions they can intensify and acquire lower pressures than they had before being re-classified. Many of New Zealand’s most severe and impactful storms have been ex-tropical cyclones.

yes you are correct ex tropical cyclones, they may intensify but not back to cyclone status they need warm water for that, they will still suck up a lot of moisture and drop as rain events due to NZ mountains which is what happens and happens in other parts of the world as well

Excellent, thanks for that Wazza.

Originally Posted by XR500

He lives on the side of one of the Rotorua Lakes, high enough out of the drink to stay dry from most biblical sized rain events.

Yeah - I live somewhere else mate, and I'm high enough above our 'puddle' not to worry about rain events. That was until I took a Professor out from the University of Edinburgh who told me our 'puddle' used to be thirty metres higher ............ which would make me lakeside

Any luck making it over there bro?

Hunting partner did a recce and tried getting to Lake Waikaremoana on the road from Murupara but found the road was closed with a barrier. Sorry, I can't recall exactly where it was closed but from memory, it was after Ruatahuna, and he was told it wasn't going to be opened before the start of April.
Not sure if anyone else can shed some recent light on the state of access long his stretch of road.