Disturbed Westerly, Assoc Low Pressure Systems, 7-10 Sept

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 09/09/2012 22:27

Amazing how much the shower lines weaken by the time they get from the west coast to here... the latest one just broke apart!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 09/09/2012 23:06

jamie.haultain wrote:Lots of lightning and thunder here. Great night time show!

Yes, NZstorm and I watched that storm from Te kauwhata

. A lot of heavy rain with the local lightning so not easy/good for photography. I will go through my photos and see if anything is worth posting.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 10/09/2012 06:20

we could see lots of lightning to the south as well
we got some close strikes (good thunder heard)
and 51 knots to boot

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 10/09/2012 06:58

Lots of sheet lightning so not that photogenic. Observed heavy rain, missed the hail.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Mon 10/09/2012 11:15

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Must of been an amazing night down there at Mt. Cook. I know if I was there on my honeymoon,I probably would of got divorced the next day as Andrea would of said, "It's the lightning or me"

Indeed it was- and just to make you all jealous my wife actually woke me up at 4am to see the storm as she didn't want me to miss it, and she knew how much I (we) love watching them

Storms continued all the way up the West Coast on our little weekend road trip, peaking with heavy snow accross the Lewis pass yesterday evening (arthurs was chains only, which we didn't have). I think I have heard thunder now on 4 of the last 7 days

Perfect weekend given we weren't tramping this time

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 10/09/2012 11:21

A weak Storm on the Waikato coast last hr

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 10/09/2012 13:42

some people at work were saying the hail was marble sized in hamilton last night. No one at work that i have tlaked to lost power or saw the blue light.

Check out the waikato times for some hail pictures. http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/ne ... -overnight

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 10/09/2012 14:19

jamie.haultain wrote:.

Check out the waikato times for some hail pictures. http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/ne ... -overnight

Those photos are interesting, some decent hail there.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Mon 10/09/2012 14:44

Here is my shot of the hail left over......
Pea sized, most of it....

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Mon 10/09/2012 16:34

Just had a couple of flashes of lightning here with a quick heavy shower, Now back to sunshine with blues skies approaching

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 10/09/2012 16:52

snowstormwatcher wrote:Just had a couple of flashes of lightning here with a quick heavy shower, Now back to sunshine with blues skies approaching

Yes, there's an immense cloud making its way over from the southwest & the day has dulled considerably; a few spots of rain falling now.
11.8 degrees.
And, my word, it's been windy this afternoon!

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Mon 10/09/2012 17:14

That same immense cloud is closing in here too,already had one heavy shower at 4.00,another one coming,yer lucky bugger snowstormwatcher getting some thunder and lightning

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Mon 10/09/2012 17:46

Yeah 3rd time in the last 4 days Ive seen lightning or heard thunder, Very unusual for a westerly system.

looks like another shower coming off the ranges now.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 10/09/2012 18:35

Razor wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Must of been an amazing night down there at Mt. Cook. I know if I was there on my honeymoon,I probably would of got divorced the next day as Andrea would of said, "It's the lightning or me"
Indeed it was- and just to make you all jealous my wife actually woke me up at 4am to see the storm as she didn't want me to miss it, and she knew how much I (we) love watching them

That's nice

Sounds like an nice appreciative and understanding wife you have

Andrea, really, is the same

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 10/09/2012 19:12

Our neighbors lost power all night last night. Ours was back on in just over an hour but up the road they were 8 hours.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Mon 10/09/2012 20:22

jamie.haultain wrote:Our neighbors lost power all night last night. Ours was back on in just over an hour but up the road they were 8 hours.

Definitely a transformer blowing up during those 2 strikes. They would take quite a while to replace.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 10/09/2012 21:06

Yea I really want to know where it was so I can talk to the people nearest to it.

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