Tropical storm Lusi is weakening, and it is hitting the north island.
I grew up in this town and i still miss it. It is beautiful. But the town I remember has changed, and it is now a strange land which I visit but no longer live in.
“@marcuslush: Auckland this am … Photo does not do it justice … Go outside #lusi pic.twitter.com/DK9QivfcFL” Beautiful. #AucklandSunrises
— Local Auckland (@LocalAuckland) March 14, 2014
While we are on photos and things.
A fascinating & dusty thunderstorm rolling in off the coast of #Australia. pic.twitter.com/p2SJvki1j2 via @BEAUTIFULPlCS
— Sam Sheppard OAM (@Samsamum) March 14, 2014
Some modern manners. Ah, I never thought that acting as a woman would end up being subversive.
@RedPillWoman Waiters have the same expression when mine orders for me.
— Margery (The Woman) (@thewomanmargery) March 14, 2014
And Lusi the storm is coming…
3 people were killed and 6 missing after Tropical #Cyclone #Lusi hits the Pacific island of #Vanuatu.
— A~ (@RES911CUE) March 14, 2014
Let’s see what happens overnight. (the link is to a realtime pattern of worldwide winds: The marker is over Dunedin)
UPDATES
Well, the map now looks spectacular.
And the storm is starting to hit. I suggest you follow it either on twitter, or at Homepaddock.
I’m in sunny Southland, about to head home to North Otago where the forecast is for fine weather for today too.
Further north it’s wetter, windier story.
Northland and Waikato have been desperate for rain, but Cyclone Lusi could bring too much of a good thing.
Cyclone Lusi is expected to continue moving south during Saturday, bringing widespread heavy rain and easterly gales to the North Island and the upper South Island. In the northeast of the North Island, the heaviest falls are expected about the Coromandel Peninsula and western Bay of Plenty, where 120 to 150mm could accumlate about the ranges during Saturday and into Sunday morning, with over 100mm expected about the eastern hills of Northland, the ranges of eastern Bay of Plenty and Gisborne, as well as the ranges of Hawkes Bay. Lusi is expected to cross the South Island during Sunday, then move away to the east.
Stuff reports the cyclone is lashing the North Island with worse to come.
MetService meteorologist Dan Corbett said parts of Northland had received 40 to 60 millimetres of rain overnight, with winds gusting up to 120kmh in Cape Reinga but there was still more to come.
“If this is like a football match, we’re not quite to halftime in Northern areas.”
Latest updates: Metservice rain radar
The weather has also hit Auckland, with eastern areas getting wind gusts of up to 100kmh this morning, Corbett said.
He described it as a weather octopus, with layers of rain bands lashing northern areas.
“Think of it almost like an octopus flailing its legs.
“The first band of rain is down to Waikato, extending to Gisborne ranges.
“The second band of heavy persistent rain is now coming through Auckland and then the whole thing is spreading south.” . . .
Little Manly at 10am. Hard to get good pictures with the wind and salt in your face @AucklandCDEM #Lusi pic.twitter.com/7f6t1F2MD6
— Mike Williams (@Chipshaker) March 14, 2014
It is fine where I am… but this is NZ. The surfers are getting excited because a storm means good waves.
Wind is building but so is the swell. #ripcurlproraglan. #lusi #lusinz #cyclonelusi pic.twitter.com/uHJrnQUlWJ
— Surfing New Zealand (@SurfingNZ) March 14, 2014
