Aucklands Weather - What's happening now?

In case you didn't notice it rained last week.

Over a 24 hours period on Thursday and Friday Auckland recorded 59mm of rain.

This brought its annual rainfall for the whole of 2010 so far to 197mm in total.

So, Auckland received about a third of its entire year's rainfall in one day.

That's a big rain.

Even so, Auckland has still only received about 50% of normal rainfall for this January - May period. And the storage lake's are showing the results.

Check out this page on Watercare's website: http://www.watercare.co.nz/watercare/water-supply/aucklands-water-situation/dam-levels.cfm

You can use it to enter the storage lakes and see how their storage levels have changed over the previous 7 days.

Lower Huia has gone from 55% full to 68%, due to that rain.
Lower Nihotupu has gone from 62% to 70%.
Upper Huia has increased from 53% to 78% of full.
Upper Nihotupu has increased from a low of 23% to 55% of full.
And the Waitakere Dam has gone from 33% to 60% of full.

That's a big increase in good pure, bush catchment collected, stored water.