Unstable Southern Tasman Low, 12th to 16th May

[rjd]

Great shot here from last night, obviously not mine but was posted on a stuff article:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zarphag/7201770510/

Thanks for linking! Was a fun night to be out chasing storms, not my usual thing!

[Thunder]

Awesome photo's Steve! Great looking ragged base there.

lol, thanks Jase and others. I like Rob's photo though quite a bit, nothing beats a good Cg! Unfortunately I only managed a few distant ones.

When you blow mine up though and look at it like a panorama there is alot of detail in the lightning and it's quite cool.

Photographed a "maybe" funnel. Not sure really, me and Steve both saw it and were talking via cell at the same time wondering if it was anything. I don't think the upper level winds were supportive of much happening so if it was anything then just a funnel associated with a thundery sky.

Cheers
Aaron

[03Stormchaser]

Its a big 'maybe' but it stuck round for quite a while. What it needed was for us to film it then play it back but sped up to see if there was any rotation. I earlier saw another lower and possible funnel cloud. The base and possible funnel was from the same cell but about a half our before this one formed. Might try grab a video still of that, although it was distant.

[03Stormchaser]

Great shot here from last night, obviously not mine but was posted on a stuff article:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zarphag/7201770510/

Thanks for linking! Was a fun night to be out chasing storms, not my usual thing!

Glad to see you on the forum!

[mikestormchaser]

looks like a funnel to me Aaron lol and that shot from the link u agve out Steve is fantastic, really like that!!

[Tornado Tim]

If that lowering didnt rotate then it's not a funnel (simple as that).
Its looks more like a scuddy lowering from the base which is very common in thunderstorms.

[spwill]

To my eye no funnel there but scuddy lowering.

[03Stormchaser]

Totally agree, only thing that seemed strager than normal was the lowering stayed around alot longer than I have witnessed before. Il have to ahve alook at the 10sec of video i took of it earlier

[03Stormchaser]

Report up on the website (simple as that)

http://www.stormchasers.co.nz/fastpage/ ... x/1/link/1

[Manukau heads obs]

like the lightning near the end of the video at the bottom of the page