General May Weather

[Chris W]

Pretty blustery hour or so just now in Amberley. Virga from the mountains towering in the distance.

[NZstorm]

Hokitika, Mt Cook and Westport airports have thunder in their hourly observations again today. Been a thundery week for the west of the SI.

[Razor]

Was that Thunder to the NW of ChCh city we just heard?

[Chris W]

Wouldn't be surprised, we've had heavy rain in Amberley this arvo and dark skies not that far off. Very visible jet streaks in the high cloud ahead of it. Remains gusty.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Becoming very dark here around 3pm this afternoon with thickening high level rain-bandish looking cloud moving across from the west. Some rain from this from 3pm.
Lightning possible along the Alps but nothing seen from here.

[Richard]

Some foot hill lightning seen just before with deep rumbles heard.

Heavy rain this afternoon delivering 7mm.

[tornado]

Got sea sprays and whirlwinds on Wellington's harbour

mini waterspout

[tornado]

tommorow and saturday looks good for thunderstorms in auckland

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Sadly, thunderstorms dwindling to the west of here.
Not expecting lightning flashes tonight along the Alps like last night.

[NZstorm]

tommorow and saturday looks good for thunderstorms in auckland

Storms like going around Auckland because of the Waitakeri ranges, often they move to the south.

[tornado]

metservice has ussued a severe thunderstorm watch.

[NZstorm]

Quite a bit of lightning for parts of the North Island overnight but the activity has died off. Interesting that Taupo got a thunderstorm but Auckland didn't.

[Richard]

The spillover rainfall has amounted to quite a handy dump thus far, 18mm though there could be more yet before the colder part of this system kicks in.

[tornado]

Quite a bit of lightning for parts of the North Island overnight but the activity has died off. Interesting that Taupo got a thunderstorm but Auckland didn't.

metservice says its possible auckland could get them throughout the day.

[David]

Rather uninteresting so far with 3mm of rain showers here

[NZstorm]

Quite a bit of lightning for parts of the North Island overnight but the activity has died off. Interesting that Taupo got a thunderstorm but Auckland didn't.

metservice says its possible auckland could get them throughout the day.

Another front coming in this evening. Looks to be largely south of Auckland though. But its something to watch. There are encouraging signs out in mid Tasman currently.

Saturday we get thundery cells with hail.

[tornado]

good certainly looking good for thunder the next 2 days

[David]

Torrential rain in Auckland CBD at the moment

[RODALCO]

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Very heavy rain in Albany now.

[tornado]

heavy rain in pakuranga now. very torriential alright.

[RWood]

Not a dry May or autumn in some places - Cropp Waterfall is at over 1550mm for May, and around 4600mm for autumn, the latter being well ahead of its previous high.

[cbm]

Was quite a bit of close, loud thunder at 5am here. Been a long time. Seems like the fundamental pattern change to wetter has finally come, but from here, average rainfall from June onwards will only result in ~900mm for the year which will be amongst the lowest ever recorded. Ruakura was on 173.4 ytd at end of Wednesday, my station 178.6.

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[Razor]

If the forecast holds true and the main rain hits here from after midnight we are on track for a very dry mild May, be interesting to see the monthly stats start flowing

[David]

17mm rain so far today and temp down to 13C from a peak of 17C at 4am

[tornado]

17mm rain so far today and temp down to 13C from a peak of 17C at 4am

yeah. here comes winter. tommorow is gonna be cold and stormy as well