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Friday: Persistant rain or drizzle
Thursday:Persistant rain or drizzle
Wednesday:Spotty rain
And its humid so it makes you sweat and smell
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An awesome lighning display from the east at the moment, probably on the coast near Oamaru and Timaru, or out to sea. Very bright, some huge flashes. No thunder audible from here in Omarama.Jasestrm wrote:Yeah bit of a dissapointment today...
Have a good holiday in Wanaka and if a thunderstorm does pop up, have a good fart to add to the excitementJasestrm wrote:Yeah bit of a dissapointment todaybut unfortunatly thats summer for you here in Canterbury you get that cloud coming in off the sea with inland heat so yeah.
But I did check before and the lower cloud is breaking in the sky funny low cloud is the only cloud you can see at night.
Yeah a good Thunderstorm to the south not quite sure to where it's tracking it's sorta back and forth at the moment near elesmere very amazing storm too with heaps of strikes popping up in that area.
Iam going to have to find out and see which way it's going to track or else I will will just go to bed.
Iam off to Wanaka for a week until the 19th tomorrow so wish me luck for good weather although I do like the rain on the tent.![]()
Cheers have a good week everyone and who knows what this storm to the south is going to do tonite my guess is it will move out to sea and disipate but shes certainly a beast out there lots of strikes.
JASON TIPPET.
I went out and had a look at various times between 11pm and midnight but neversaw anything.Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Yes you should be getting a good show Gary. I can actually see the faint flashes from way up here!
I know I went out for abit of a look but was disappointed tooNZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Steven's lightning tracker had the storm just south of Lakes Ellesmere but judging by the sferics it seemed further away than that.
JohnGaul
NZTS
Yes Steven, it looks like it, may get warmer westerly conditions later next weekNZstorm wrote:Still cloudy here in Ak but cloud looks like it will break up. We havn't had a sunny day in 2005 yet. But the outlook is for finer/stable conditions over NZ. So we may get a taste of summer yet.
I'll be asking friends in both towns whether they or anybody managed to get pics or video.NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Shame we have not any members down there to record the event.
JohnGaul
NZTS
I'd adjusted the ranging number to try to improve the accuracy for storms in N Canterbury but this has made storms over the sea about half the distance they should be. It's even worse at night as Ricky has mentionedSteven's lightning tracker had the storm just south of Lakes Ellesmere but judging by the sferics it seemed further away than that.
From what I saw on Tuesday and last night you can see flashes above storms out to 150km or more from a dark site. A lot further than I would have guessed !The action looked to be at very high altitude, btw. We were viewing it down the Waitaki valley, and a good 120km inland from the east coast, but the flashes were easily visible, and up high.
Agreed. These were spectacular. They lit the place up as if they were overhead, not 120km distant or more. The light was blinding if viewed directly. It was like a camera flash at close range.Steven Graham wrote:From what I saw on Tuesday and last night you can see flashes above storms out to 150km or more from a dark site. A lot further than I would have guessed !