Thunderstorms Upper North Island - April 19th - 22nd

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 22/04/2013 13:52

very heavy downpour at work. Tims station might get this.

David · Unread post by **David** » Mon 22/04/2013 14:16

We just got one here, very large rain drops, rain rate hit 118mm/hr for a minute

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 22/04/2013 17:22

I see there was a brief thunder shower near Manakau Heads last hr

Took this photo out near the Airport early afternoon, these clouds produced a thunderstorm over the hills of SE Auckland as the moved southeast

Manukau heads obs · Mon 22/04/2013 17:32

just got home, was in Waiuku
we got 5mm or so from that shower

the tops are being blown off from the NW..

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Tue 23/04/2013 17:15

Interesting tale in the Waikato Times yesterday about 1 of 2 men struck by lightning in different parts of the Waikato on Sunday. Fortunately, both were wearing gumboots. Sadly, a nearby horse (no doubt with steel-shoes) wasn't so lucky.

'Two injured by lightning strikes' - Stuff

Manukau heads obs · Tue 23/04/2013 17:19

I drove past an equestrian event of some sort, i.e riders on horses , minutes before lightning bolts starting hitting the ground around me ....when I went past I almost felt like stopping and telling them a thunderstorm was about to hit....

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Tue 23/04/2013 20:12

Nev wrote:Interesting tale in the Waikato Times yesterday about 1 of 2 men struck by lightning in different parts of the Waikato on Sunday. Fortunately, both were wearing gumboots. Sadly, a nearby horse (no doubt with steel-shoes) wasn't so lucky.

'Two injured by lightning strikes' - Stuff

The two men were on Campbell Live last night, funnily enough at the end when he says definatly be abit more weary of storms in the future, i wonder if they were aware that those clouds in the background were developing thunderstorms.

http://www.3news.co.nz/Lightning-strike ... fault.aspx

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 23/04/2013 21:38

It was an exceptional day for lightning. Would be interesting to know the lightning count for Sunday.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Tue 23/04/2013 23:19

NZstorm wrote:It was an exceptional day for lightning. Would be interesting to know the lightning count for Sunday.

Blitzortung Oceania detected 13389 Strikes in the 24 hour period from Midnight NZDT on the 21st to the 22nd.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Wed 24/04/2013 06:12

Nice Graphic Tim!

Looks similar (if not the same) to what MS recorded on Sunday, going by the graph below posted on their facebook page. It has a total of 22,268 strikes for the 60 hrs from midday Friday to midnight Sunday (don't think either figure includes IC strikes from memory)...

Manukau heads obs · Wed 24/04/2013 06:30

the blitzortung graphic shows how the storms died quickly into the south waikato...i.e central NI got nothing

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 24/04/2013 07:14

Thanks for the lightning data.

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