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Hi all. I have heard rumours, read the Facebook post, and had a friend have a confusing discussion with a local business regarding whether the road to Waikaremoana is open. From the NZTA website it appears open, and the Facebook post IMO appears to relate to the lake and great walk being closed. Can anyone else provide any other info regarding the current state of road access from Murupara to Lake Waikaremoana? Weather permitting we are planning on heading into the area.
Thanks in advance.
Are you wanting to know if the road is open, or are you wanting to know if the Ureweras are open for hunting? Or both?
Both. Sorry, I knew what I meant in my head. Is the road open between Murupara and Lake Waikaremoana, and if so can we go hunting in the permitted Urewerwa areas along this stretch of road?
The road is open army are using it for access. Te urewera it's self is closed the shop and motor camp were/are underwater
how about our members who live close to lake??? where are you old boy @SF90
FYI, just applied for a received another hunting permit through the Tuhoe website. No mention of any closures (road or otherwise) or restrictions (above and beyond their standard ones).
He lives on the side of one of the Rotorua Lakes, high enough out of the drink to stay dry from most biblical sized rain events.Quote:
Originally Posted by Micky Duck
From Te Urewera Facebook page.
Looks like the great walk is closed for the rest of the season.
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Yeah when everything downstream is fairly damp they probably don't need any more water.
and apparently they started dumping water well before Gabrielle arrived to lower the water level so they could hold water back if needed. But are legally required to release XYZ amount of water.
I was up Aniwaniwa valley during the Wahine storm.
Man that's a wild place to be in a cyclone.
never been a cyclone in NZ just ex cyclones which are classed as tropical lows ;)
We've just had another dumping of rain and surface flooding everywhere if your going to come through highway 38 I'd bring a shovel and chainsaw
They are EX tropical cyclones, the tropical label gets dropped once it passes a certain latitude. They can still be a Cyclone, just not a Tropical one.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazza56
no, they are no longer a cyclone when the central pressure is above a certain level about 960 milibars, also wind strength which determines category 1 - 5, hence low wind and rain plenty of it
Tell the forest owners with millions of flattened trees it wasn't a cyclone.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazza56
That's where you are wrong the weather watch guy Philip Duncan keep saying that because it's lost it's tropical status it hasn't lost it's it's strength and one point when it was a New Zealand Waters after a come down past Auckland it got stronger than when it was at a tropical cyclone level that's what Philip Duncan message on the radio and on his website saying. Philip Dunn said when it comes ex-tropical cyclone it only loses it's tropical part not a cyclone partQuote:
Originally Posted by wazza56
https://about.metservice.com/our-com...ical-cyclones/
Re-classification as an ex-tropical cyclone does not necessarily mean the system has weakened, but rather that it has transformed into a completely different type of weather system. Ex-tropical cyclones may still have considerable potential for severe weather, and under the right meteorological conditions they can intensify and acquire lower pressures than they had before being re-classified. Many of New Zealand’s most severe and impactful storms have been ex-tropical cyclones.
yes you are correct ex tropical cyclones, they may intensify but not back to cyclone status they need warm water for that, they will still suck up a lot of moisture and drop as rain events due to NZ mountains which is what happens and happens in other parts of the world as well
Excellent, thanks for that Wazza.
Yeah - I live somewhere else mate, and I'm high enough above our 'puddle' not to worry about rain events. That was until I took a Professor out from the University of Edinburgh who told me our 'puddle' used to be thirty metres higher ............ which would make me lakeside :thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by XR500
Any luck making it over there bro?
Hunting partner did a recce and tried getting to Lake Waikaremoana on the road from Murupara but found the road was closed with a barrier. Sorry, I can't recall exactly where it was closed but from memory, it was after Ruatahuna, and he was told it wasn't going to be opened before the start of April.
Not sure if anyone else can shed some recent light on the state of access long his stretch of road.
