Boxing day cb/funnel over South Canterbury

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Boxing day cb/funnel over South Canterbury

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An interesting convergence line developed to the north of Timaru from about 5.30pm on boxing day with a dry northwest land breeze converging with a cool moist easterly sea breeze near the coast. An upper cold pool supplied sufficient instability for cb's to form in what was quite a dry atmosphere. Funnel clouds, hail and lightning (CG's) were observed within the line.
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Funnel cloud observed here started as quite a broad wedge and then elongated to quite a narrow thread before disappearing. Funnel occured just after 6pm and lasted around 10minutes. 240mm lense shot here.
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Great stuff Steven W! Great colours to, and the FC tops that off!

It also looks like a possible funnel in that ca3 shot, maybe?

And I just relised that's my 1000 post!

It's a bugger I didn't pay attention to the models that day. I'll be more on the ball now, hopefully. 8)
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Awsome stuff steven :) :)

Whats that now 3 funnel clouds for the season!! Canterbury on top with 2 :lol:
(actually 3, 2 photographed)
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Thanks Steven for those excellent photo's. :D

There looks to be very little precipitation under those Cb clouds. Reminds me of the Thunderstorms I saw while travelling through Western USA where dew points are very low.
Isolated Storms in fine weather always make for good viewing.

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Awesome photos Steven.

What height do you think these clouds were topping out at?
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Actually, the colour in these photos looks a bit funny to me, looks washed out blue. I have noticed that with other photos posted on this forum via the attachment facility. I would have used my website but I have a tempory problem accessing it at the moment.

I did not consider there to be a funnel in ca3, but I can see what you mean Aaron. I'll blow up the original and have a closer look.
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Aaron, I can confirm there is a funnel cloud in ca3. All my pictures are taken on high res/large and I was able to blow the picture up.

That makes three funnel clouds for that day although the other two were better examples.
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Ahh, good to hear it was another funnel! I should do some of my images in the high res mode, not all of them but the good sights of the day as at the moment I use the setting just under.
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