Weather Bomb Due to hit New Zealand

[andy190]

Tomorrow a Large Weather Bomb is due to hit New Zealand Tomorrow. It will mainly affect the North Island but the North of the South Island will also be affected.

The Cook Strait ferries have been cancelled because of safety concerns. 

Read more about it Here.

The area which I live, Hawkes Bay in is expecting heavy rain, up to 120km/h gale force winds at sea and 7 metre sea swells.

[Hagar]

Large Weather Bomb

That's a new one on me. What will they think of next? LOL

[Fozzer]

Batten down the hatches, Andy!

Just been reading about it on the NZ Forum...>>> http://nzff.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=17263

Its not only Earthquakes that are determined to get you!.. ...!

Paul...with my Cessna 150 safely stored in its NZ Hangar!

[andy190]

Luckily Fozzer the area which I live in hasn't had a large earthquake since 1931.

[Flying Trucker]

Hold onto your hat and you folks all take care Andy...

Oh...still no sound card yet...they must be walking here from Florida.

Have not downloaded FSX yet as waiting for the new sound card through the mail and I miss my DC3 and you can guess in what livery...

[andy190]

I will Doug thanks. The stormy bomb thingy isn't due to hit my area till about Noon & the weather is actually quite nice at the moment.

[Fozzer]

The joys of sim-flying in New Zealand... ....

...I can pick my own weather!.. ...!

Paul...a nice, warm,  sunny day, with a slight breeze... ...!

[andy190]

Fozzer, we haven't had the weather you described since the 2011 summer.

It's been an awful summer this year; I think we've only had about half a week of sunny days the whole summer.

But this afternoon I'm going to have a flight round my area with real world weather turned on. (So I may crash a few times. )

[hyperpep111]

"The profession that I want to do when I grow up is be a weatherman because it;s the only job that I can consistently fail at and never get fired."
Best of luck with your storm .

[Fozzer]

Fozzer, we haven't has the weather you described since the 2011 summer.

It's been an awful summer this year; I think we've only had about half a week of sunny days the whole summer.

But this afternoon I'm going to have a flight round my area with real world weather turned on. (So I may crash a few times. )

Real weather (REX) is scary sometimes!

On some of my Cal West Coast real weather flights I am often refused a take-off, or landing, by Air Traffic Control, because of poor visibility!
Which means I have to switch my computer off, ....until the weather improves*.... ...!
San Francisco and Los Angeles are renowned for their dense sea-mists!

Poor visibility frightens me!... ...!

Paul....clear blue skies...I like!... ...!

* possibly... ...!

[andy190]

The storm isn't going to be bad compared to what the US gets, but for NZ it's pretty bad.

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[andy190]

Oneof the towns I've been thinking about is Haumoana just south of the Tukituki River.

Have a look at it in Google Maps Here.

[Fozzer]

Oneof the towns I've been thinking about is Haumoana just south of the Tukituki River.

Have a look at it in Google Maps Here.

We spend a lot of time in Multiplayer, around there.

I cant get my tongue around some/all of those Maori place names!
It gets very difficult in a Chat Window conversation (spelling!).

Paul....Kiwi Flier... 8-)...!

[andy190]

Fozzer, you can't even spell Taupo I saw.

And the locals don't like it if you mispronounce a Maori name.

But if you fly round Hawkes Bay all the big towns have nice easy names. Hastings, Napier, Clive, Taradale & Havelock North*.

*Where I live. One of the snootiest towns in New Zealand in my opinion.

[andy190]

The weather bomb is still around.

It blew roofs off houses in Patea & power is out to 25,000 residents in Taranaki & may not be back on for a few days.

Read more about it here.