We blogged yesterday about the arrival of some welcome precipitation. The rain started sometime in the dark of Saturday night. It's now 7am on Monday morning, and it's still raining here in Wanganui!
We've had more than a month's worth of rainfall in the past 24 hours, so it's probably time to say "enough is enough". Metservice recorded 98.6mm of rain between midnight Saturday and midnight Sunday, and it has rained steadily since, so we're probably approaching the 120mm mark; that's getting close to 5 inches, which is a whole lot of rain! The best bit though is that most of it will stay in the ground, thanks to a gentle beginning to this rain episode; right where it is badly needed.
Not that we're complaining. We are pretty much confined to barracks, and it's been quite therapeutic to lie on the side that doesn't hurt and listen to the rain. But it IS a holiday weekend for those of us lucky enough to live in the lower North Island, and it's put the kibbosh on a few events around these parts. Doubtless the sun will be shining when the populus returns to work tomorrow; but at least the grass will be greener!
1 comments:
Only about 10 mm here in Paradise but family in a drier part of Hawkes Bay have tipped out over 170 mm from this.
That is a rain event.
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