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Sorry not really hunting related - although the ducks will be happy. Here’s the view getting into my place tonight
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And the end of the road literally
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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
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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.
So rainbow road will close again this year? how dry is it around greymonth area anyone know?Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
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
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.
Yip, pretty bloody wet down here the last few days!
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...37cd9274_b.jpg_DSF5158 by Ben, on Flickr
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As far as the climate change question goes - I've been in Gore about 10 years and this is the biggest flood I've seen here in that time (peaked at 2500 cumecs and 4.8m above normal level), but its smaller than 1999 (and lots of earlier big floods like 78 and 84) and this time of year often sees the heaviest rainfall here. So it was probably due for one. The biggest I've seen photos of was 1913, before they had floodbanks on the river.
Urban flooding is probably getting worse/more frequent, but thats related to more development with higher densities, bigger houses and more hard surface driveways etc - so the rain runs off faster and more of it goes straight into the stormwater system instead of soaking into the ground. Combine that with decades of councils not investing in upgrading stormwater systems and its no surprise that you get surface flooding after heavy rain because the pipes can't handle the extra flow. New developments have to meet higher standards (the developers are the ones paying of course), but they're still feeding into the same old downstream network.
Sadly, looks like more incoming as well with a "T" heading for South Is end of next week. Yikes. :yuush:
Thanks for the reportage and pics @GravelBen !!!Quote:
Originally Posted by GravelBen
Hard to envisage considering what most are going through with heat and no rains
No worries @Sarvo , more of my photos here if you are interested:
https://flic.kr/s/aHsmLby3Hh
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...:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
Crazy weather extremes that you have this year. Even our media reported on the floods a lot.
some very sad stories emerging of the serious extent and nature of damage a lot of folks are facing. And this probably the tip of the iceberg https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/a...ectid=12306669
And the govt's response has been what?? The silence is deafeaning ..... completely arrogant and disgusting.
I've seen mention of $100k from govt - like that's going to go far. NOT !!
Polies all too busy making speeches, getting their photo ops & stuffing their faces at Waitangi.
I see Helen Clarke has tweeted her concerns about the future of concert program on Radio NZ - well fuck me, pretty clear where some peoples priorities lie.
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 HanmerQuote:
Originally Posted by hunterAT
16mm of rain for the BOP we've got 20 year hedge plants sulking and losing their leaves due to lack of moisture looking forward to some rain :)
And they do mean impassable.... two sets of ladder icebreaker chains and i just got the landcruiser throughQuote:
Originally Posted by Happy Jack
We finally got back in to our place today had around 2.5 foot of water around the house & through the sheds , 3 freezers drowned , hay plus a bunch of other assorted stuff , luckily the house is around 800 high off the ground else it would be buggered , powers back on now , skip in the drive so things are on the up :).
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Always wanted my own lake.
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Looks like the kids are loving it, all the best for the clean up @Boaraxa
It would be nice just shooting off the deck !! , speaking of decoys I’m missing a wool packs worth of flock decoys along with most of my fire wood !!! & shock horror my ring binder folder full of my reload info is satched luckly I carefully peeled the pages apart and took photos , crises averted :D
Bugger, looks like you copped it a bit @Boaraxa . Gore got off pretty light overall, floodbanks held more than they were designed for so it must have been close though.
@GravelBen Yea man an insane amount of water sat here for around 3 days , our ditch in front of the house has a stopper on the end we’re it drains into the river so all this water built up as the road acted like a dam wall until it started going over the road , most of our water came from boundary creek , it’s not all bad though team ...a certain someone made the headlines for rescuing some poor sheep ...that same person according to seven sharp is now NEW ZEALANDER OF THE WEEK walked into the local the last nigh went to pay for a big bot instead it was on the house ...I don’t think it gets much better :thumbsup:
Here’s another pic our place is bottom rite green roof.
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