Thread: Drought up north this down south

Sorry not really hunting related - although the ducks will be happy. Here’s the view getting into my place tonight

And the end of the road literally

I’m unsure about climate change. I think the wx is definitely getting more extreme

You are right at home we are starting to get dry real real quick, creeks have stopped flowing and dams are dropping every day. The last few weeks of these 30+ degree heat has kill us and yet you poor buggers down south are getting hammered with rain.
I feel sorry for you guys/girls down there i know what its like cleaning up after a flood. Stay safe and take care southland

Normal hot dry (37deg in the shade) Hawke’s Bay summer here

The internet just elevates general weather awareness, and awareness of everything else

The world in general was actually 1 degree cooler last year ( got that from internet )

Hope you don’t have any water damage there Nathan

extremely dry on the hauraki plains between the waihou and piako rivers.... the cracks opening up in the soil are huge........we are only about 1metre above sea level if that and have a high water table ...usually so when it rains it floods . there have been 2 major floods in the last 100 years 1938 and 1950 during the 1938 one the cheese factory had 18" of water thru it and cheese floating everywhere they expect a repeat within 100 years .....been 82 years now but stop banks are much higher now......

Yeah I'm on sand country in the far north
Iv been here 15+ years and this is the driest Iv ever seen it here
Feb is usually the dry month not dec/Jan so it's going to get worse before it gets better

Have the Waingawa and Waipouli rivers stopped flowing in Masterton? If so it would be the same as 1967, we shot trout in the pools with our .22s!!

I remember reading years ago how milling of the Congo rain forests would bugger up the weather for Ausi and NZ by reducing cloud seeding evaporation from the Congo forest. This Forest drives our weather coming from the west. Very dry in Canterbury due to prolonged hot dry Nor West winds more than just a lack of rainfall.

Yes although we had a tiny amount of rain Tuesday night it all blew away again the next morning, bone dry here in the basin today and likely to stay that way for a while. Still gets me out of lawn mowing to dry and could cause a fire. On another note DOC have closed the Edwards valley and possibly the Molesworth will be closed soon too due to the dry weather.

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Yes although we had a tiny amount of rain Tuesday night it all blew away again the next morning, bone dry here in the basin today and likely to stay that way for a while. Still gets me out of lawn mowing to dry and could cause a fire. On another note DOC have closed the Edwards valley and possibly the Molesworth will be closed soon too due to the dry weather.

So rainbow road will close again this year? how dry is it around greymonth area anyone know?

Scads of motorbikes heading through here to Burt Munro rally at Invercargill - roads must be open again.

The coast is fine from what I hear it had plenty of rain.

Rainbow and Molesworth will certainly be closed for winter. Molesworth is currently slated to close on 10th Feb due to the fire risk

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

The coast is fine from what I hear it had plenty of rain.

Rainbow and Molesworth will certainly be closed for winter. Molesworth is currently slated to close on 10th Feb due to the fire risk

Would one also have to expect Tophouse Road (Hanmer Springs to Lake Tennyson) to be closed by end of of March? In that case I might have to come up with a backup plan...

Crazy weather extremes that you have this year. Even our media reported on the floods a lot.

Originally Posted by hunterAT

Would one also have to expect Tophouse Road (Hanmer Springs to Lake Tennyson) to be closed by end of of March? In that case I might have to come up with a backup plan...

Crazy weather extremes that you have this year. Even our media reported on the floods a lot.

Generally they keep the road open as far as Tennyson and close it from just past there for the winter as Island saddle becomes impassable. I have not heard that it is closing for fire, hopefully the wife can find out as she works at the info centre here in Hanmer

Originally Posted by Happy Jack

Generally they keep the road open as far as Tennyson and close it from just past there for the winter as Island saddle becomes impassable. I have not heard that it is closing for fire, hopefully the wife can find out as she works at the info centre here in Hanmer

And they do mean impassable.... two sets of ladder icebreaker chains and i just got the landcruiser through

Spent part of the day pulling a few ewes out of the bog in a dried up dam and moving stock around trying to find water.