Southern weather today (30 July)

[HRT]

Decided on Saturday to go up to Chch and see some people. They're back to work on Monday so was going to leave on Monday morning. Little bit of rain outside didn't look too bad, radio said surface flooding in Chch. Maybe it was worse than it looked.

Decided to go anyway. Horribly windy and wet but could get used that. Turns out it got worse and worse the further south you get. Flooding across the roads both north and south of Oamaru. North stuff was the worst. As if I wasn't cold and wet enough by then, go through the waters and my boot basically caught all the spray coming off the bike. Seems they're waterproof but only to water trying to get out. Felt like gumboots full of water at the petrol station.

And the 3 layers of clothes and waterproof jacket are all soaked right through Couldn't get my helmet off at home and couldn't open the back door for a few minutes because I couldn't feel my fingers

Having said that, was a good trip up and the mighty little MC14 CBR250 was faultless. Didn't see any other bikers on the road on the way back down however. Funny that...

[Delphinus]

Good timing mate... The river just south of Waikauiti has burst banks down to 1 lane there.... Roads closed Milton way as well.

[imdying]

It rained today?

[Delphinus]

It rained today?

You just wait, you should get it 10pm tuesday night

[imdying]

Fabulous... just saw the news bit on it... looks pretty evil.

[98tls]

I went up to waimate from oamaru today,i think we only just made it back in time as i was mucking about in the garage and heard they had closed it just south of waimate,still raining as we speak with my front lawn completly underwater.

[HRT]

must have been lucky to get back then. Think it was about 4 I got back into Dunedin. Still pissing down here. Leith it up to the top of its banks through Uni too

[mbazza]

A ride to remember. Well done.
About 40mm so far today and it continues. Surface flooding. No bikes about.

[Lil_Byte]

It is not raining.

Rain come down in distinct globuals of water known as raindrops. At the moment the bloody stuff out there is coming down in sheets.

[Oakie]

Yep. Rained a bit here this morning. So much so that for only the second time in 9 months I took the car instead of the bike to work. Couldn't bear to think of it sitting outside in that rain all day. As it was, the rain stopped about 10.30.

[The Lone Rider]

Yeah, poured and poured and poured... and then stopped.. sun came out. Took bike to work. Very light speckling on drive back home (about 10 mins ago)