From very dry to very wet

[DaveNZ]

The first 4 months of 2010 were very dry here in Auckland NZ, officially the driest 4 month period ever recorded. My region and others in the country became officially drought declared.

I recorded 20mm in the last 3 weeks of December, followed by 43mm in Jan, and Feb, 18mm in March and 46mm in April. Up until the 19th, the May total was also rather low at 24mm. Then in the 12 days from 21 May to 1 June, 174mm rain fell, spread out over the whole period. 60mm of this fell on 1 June.

Lovely to see lush green grass again, and to know the drought is over
Now hoping for a wet winter so that water storage levels increase.

[Brendan]

Hi there DaveNZ

Cool looking page you have, lots of information on there. I am only new to the family of weather data and online data. I have made the the following page, its for my company and you will see the links to my weather data.

Will book mark you page.

Would you mine if I added a link to your weather data page from my? I would like to get a network of NZ stations running.

Thanks
Brendan

http://www.frameit2010.com

[Super-T]

Brendan
Have you seen this?
http://www.computecnetworks.com/topsites/

[DaveNZ]

Hi there DaveNZ

Would you mine if I added a link to your weather data page from my? I would like to get a network of NZ stations running.

Thanks
Brendan

http://www.frameit2010.com

Cool, feel free to link to it if you like

[TideMan]

I'm just setting up my PWS at our bach at Port Levy (on Banks Peninsula in NZ).
My motivation is that the local official raingauge in a neighbouring Lyttelton Harbour does not measure the same rainfall as we get, but rainfall is very important for us because that's our only source of freshwater.
On my website here, there's an analysis of rainfall from 1961 to the present for our area:
http://www.tideman.co.nz/PortLevy/LyttRain.html

If you look through the site, you'll see that the variability in rainfall from site to site can be quite large.
I expect that my PWS will record rain that is 1.5 times the rainfall at Lyttelton. I guess this is because our aspect is somewhat different and we are more exposed to southerlies.

I used the Lyttelton data to figure out how large our storage tank needed to be when we renovated recently. As it turned out, the existing tank was large enough (13,500 litres), given that we doubled the roof area.