Hi Aaron, not sure sorry – as it’s a private network and so we can’t double check collaborations etc – and of course no/limited public data for verifying. I know when the Tauranga/Mount floods happened earlier this year both Niwa and MetService had two totally different numbers for the event within a fairly short distance – so it is possible some narrow lines of rain clipped one station and not yours. But without knowing the precise set-up it’s hard to be sure.

Cheers
Phil D

Hi Jet, Wednesday April 1st.
-WW

Hi Kitty, thanks for your question. Because the NZ Government has no free open weather data it means we cannot display tax funded/public weather observations from Niwa or MetService, like you can do in other countries (like Australia). So we pay another company to display the privately run network in NZ. We don’t make any money from it, in fact it costs us more to display those weather stations than it does the weather forecast data we have! But it’s important to us for the public to have as much data as possible. It’s also quite common in many of our towns and cities (especially coastal ones) to have large temperature ranges across the day – one weather station doesn’t show you that, but several can paint a better picture. Appreciate your question and kind support 🙂
– Phil D

Hi Jet, probably 80mm+ to get that, followed by more rain within a week.
– WW