8.3 mm so far. Just glad for any rain at all because we so needed it with trees wilting even, but we sure paid for that rain. Heck did it blow hard during the night. Continuous hard downslopes off Mt Wainui behind us, straight into the SW off Cook Strait. It was a pretty rugged night with the 2 winds. ESE was far stronger and gusted >100 km/h and the SW ~40 km/h. Not a great deal of actual S at all. Suspect a few branches will be down around the place. Stuff was blowing along the street during the early hours, with loud banging and wind noise waking me up. Had to get out in the wind this morning and look for my rubbish bin and its contents, all soggy and wet. Thank you WeatherWatch for forecasting the SE. That wind direction is downslope here and is a big deal for us, as it also involves a rampant ESE straight off the 720m mountain.

The Kapiti Coast is on emergency bore water now, as they cannot take anymore from the low flowing Waikanae river. We are different in Paekakariki and rely on Mt Wainui for water and have been on the emergency bores for ages now. We need a lot of rainfall now to top up the mountain aquifers so we can make it through El Nino .. that truly ugly word. 

Rain mainly light is intermittent here in Whitby, although the Southerly is pretty gusty at times. The most rain I’ve seen here in several weeks.

NO Rain in Feilding.. dark clouds, fine mist… the garden is dead, hung out to dry and died.  please send some rain soon… our lawn is brown (in fact there is no lawn) it will be a mud bath if we do get rain.

I was in Tomarta on friday and around 12.30pm we had a very heavy downpour for about 5mins. i went home to Mangawhai Heads where my husband said they had a shower of rain but not that heavy.

a little light shower at lunch, lucky if it was 1mm! Waiting patiently for the thunderstorms since we have a thunderstorm watch in place – Yeah Right! 

We have had a wee sprinkle but nothing much at all. Its cloudy, windy but no proper rain. My ground is cracked and grass is near dead on my back lawn lol 🙁 hopefully we will have some rain this week

I’m at Himatangi Beach in the Manawatu, and STILL no rain yet.

Pity the Royals are spending their day off in Wellington as if they had come up north of Auckland to the Bay of Islands or somewhere they would enjoy the absolutely beautiful weather we have been having for sometime now. Here in Whangarei it is another gorgeous day. No rain until the end of the week and no rain for quite awhile so gardens are very dry, but I really do not want this weather to end, it is perfect.