SI Thunderstorms!! From 15/11/04 till ?

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 16/11/2004 20:25

Akaroa reported 5 thunderstorms today, lucky people

Not surprising looking at the dark cloud in that direction this afternoon. Add that to the thunderstorm late yesterday, even though that was to the west of Akaroa Harbour (where I was), not in the township. Looks like it could be over - blue skies almost all around now. 7PM radar shows shower activity south of Timaru, but will that be heading our way. Probably not, but who knows.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 16/11/2004 20:25

Nothing over Auckland today which allowed me to do a full days work for a change.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Tue 16/11/2004 20:31

Do you want some of our dewpoint Aaron,22.7 today,had a minimum overnight temp of 26 yesterday.Still,not much action around these parts,very dry indeed.
Good to see some action down in the big smoke (ChCh).
Cheers.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 16/11/2004 20:44

Long evenings now but the usual chilliness and wind we get to enjoy in them

dogmelon · Unread post by **dogmelon** » Tue 16/11/2004 22:50

Well looks like we have had our token storm. See you next year.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Tue 16/11/2004 23:11

Got a txt from my niece in Oamaru around 8.30pm. She at a school hostel and said that that the skies were erupting. Massive thunder overhead with forked lightning. Glad to see she thought of me.

We had some great cb's, a couple of claps, 30 secs of 8mm hail

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Tue 16/11/2004 23:33

Good to hear Phil. Definately not as much strikes as yesterday but some none the less. The storms seamed to get up to B'sP and then move east.

Bob Crowder tolled me he saw torrential falls of rain yesterday when driving around little river coming back from Akaroa. He also saw lots of lightning.

Roll on next thunderstorm!

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Sun 21/11/2004 09:11

I've created an animated GIF of the 13000 "strikes" detected on Monday afternoon between 14:10 and 18:00.

It's about 180kB and you can download it here: http://www.templeton.gen.nz/images/041115storm.gif

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Sun 21/11/2004 11:17

That's amazing, truely.

Thanks for that gif Steven

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sun 21/11/2004 11:22

Thanks very much! Absolutely awsome, lets hope it can have a run today?!

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sun 21/11/2004 15:41

Thats very cool!

Manukau heads obs · Sun 21/11/2004 21:44

its like watching a big brush!
(i.e you can see some "reflections" that the boltek got wrong, etc

interesting how the main zone see sawed back and forth....with the NE pushing it back, then that would fade...or???

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 22/11/2004 21:04

Looks great, I would say the westward movement of the Lightning in the animation is due to the storm developing out westward into the very good inland heat source. Normally upper West-NW winds would have moved the storm out to Sea more quickly but obviously the upper winds that day were very light .
Must have been a great Storm to watch.