Currently, down New Zealand there is what is known as an 'atmospheric river'. This is defined as a flowing column of condensed water vapour in the atmosphere which is responsible for producing significant amounts of rainfall. In other words, a conveyor belt of rain bringing wet, warm and in places

In terms of seeing some reasonably and relatively significant short term rainfall today is looking quite high for some areas. Below is the predicted morning rainfall totals across the country and below this the predicted afternoon rainfall totals by the GFS. What you will notice is that thunderstorm activity really hypes