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Weather forecast looks grim

Rotorua Daily Post
14 Dec, 2014 07:36 PM2 mins to read

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MUDDY SUMMER: Deverel Thomas gets dirty at the Reporoa Tractor Pull yesterday. PHOTO/STEPHEN PARKER

MUDDY SUMMER: Deverel Thomas gets dirty at the Reporoa Tractor Pull yesterday. PHOTO/STEPHEN PARKER

Barbecues in the sun could unfortunately be off the cards this Christmas if the rain forecast for Rotorua continues.

Yesterday's heavy rain was expected to ease off today with areas of morning cloud but otherwise fine weather, MetService meteorologist Philippa Murdoch said.

"Monday will be fine apart from morning cloud," she said.

"Tuesday will be a nice day, with the rain returning on Wednesday and there could be some heavy falls with that, and some strong north easterly winds easing on Thursday and some showers on Friday."

According to the MetService 10-day forecast (through until December 23), Rotorua will have rain every day from Wednesday onwards.

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"Forecasting for those first six days are okay, but going further than that can be changeable," Ms Murdoch said.

"Christmas is a little too early to pin anything down, so it's a bit of a mixed bag really."

The rain on the weekend dampened and in some some cases stopped weekend festivities.

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The Ride to Recycle yesterday was postponed due to heavy rain, organiser Marcello Ojerio said.

"From a safety standpoint, council couldn't do it. It was too wet and too cold, and if you have kids on bikes; people can get sick.

"So I [contacted] those who had confirmed they were coming and went to Burger Fuel, where we were supposed to be meeting, and waited for people to turn up who might've missed the news," he said.

Rain was also a factor in a lower than expected turn out for the Reporoa Tractor Pull and Community Day, organiser Nicole Maandonks said.

"Hopefully we get fine weather next year, but it was still a good turn out with farmers coming out to celebrate the rain," she said.

Soundshell Market organiser Gordon Davies said there were no outside stalls because of the rain.

"We had the inside stalls going, it was one of our biggest days, but the rain was quite steady so it did knock us around.

"We still had people down there but just didn't get the turnout," Mr Davies said.

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