Meteor over North Island - Feb 11

Manukau heads obs · Wed 11/02/2015 22:28

wow, flash of light and big explosion boom that shook buildings/rattled windows....sonic boom

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 11/02/2015 22:41

Where....at yours?

Manukau heads obs · Wed 11/02/2015 22:44

yes, sonic boom here shook buildings/rattled windows and the Wife saw a flash of light

reports coming in of it affecting a large area..auckland/waikato..even Rotorua people saw the flash..even Wellington...
so thats a big one..
was at about 10:15pm

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 11/02/2015 22:50

I thought I saw a blue flash of light 10pm, then a rumbling sound like distant thunder around 10.15

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Wed 11/02/2015 22:51

I can't believe I didn't see or hear it. I was out in the car

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Wed 11/02/2015 23:02

'Flash of bright lights over city' - NZ Herald

Brassnz · Unread post by **Brassnz** » Thu 12/02/2015 00:01

Didn't see the flash but heard the noise. Sounded odd, like someone was running up the wooden stairs outside the house and onto the deck. Wish I'd seen the light show as well.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Thu 12/02/2015 06:17

On YouTube Josh Sherborne wrote:On my way to the gym when bam this comes out of no where. I actually thought it was Lightning.
Pretty cool to have seen it happen little ol' New Zealand..

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 06:54

cool video
I wonder how big the rock was
Fist size I see astronimical society saying,...I thought would have been bigger

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 12/02/2015 06:57

Sounds if there were multiple ones or one original and then falling over a large area

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Thu 12/02/2015 07:03

May have also been space-junk…

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 12/02/2015 09:44

I saw a spectacular shooting star last night on my evening walk, like a giant firework.

story here in NZ Herald http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11400450

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 09:45

yup, I started a thread about that last night in the off topic section

loud sonic boom here that shook the house..amazing it was

about 1 to 2 minutes after the flash
did you hear the sonic boom?
the wife saw the flash of light

cbm · Unread post by **cbm** » Thu 12/02/2015 10:04

Saw it also in Cambridge. Single bright blue flash observed from the car I was a passenger in. No associated sound.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 12/02/2015 10:29

I was expecting a boom for about 20 secs after but heard nothing but I did have traffic noise along Mt Eden Road.
Obviously the boom was going to come much later than 20 secs with that distance

It looked like a giant fast moving comet with a bright finish, it would have been even more spectacular away from the City lights

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Thu 12/02/2015 12:40

Another dashcam view from downtown Akld…

On YouTube Legacy Media wrote:Footage captured of the flash caused by a suspected meteorite.

Taken 9.59pm 11/02/2015 in the Auckland CBD.
Audio has been removed.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 12:45

reports that it was a loud sonic boom in Thames also...as in south auckland..Pukekohe/waiuku ..and here...so that makes it crossing from east to west from thames to here..and out into the tasman...

seems that you needed to be right underneath it to get the best sonic boom...

ScottyD · Unread post by **ScottyD** » Thu 12/02/2015 12:47

Both myself and my wife noticed the flash from our lounge in Manukau. Very bright blue flash. Didn't hear anything until quite a few minutes later when there was a distant sounding rumble, so not sure if that was an associated noise. For those that heard something, was that straight away or was there a substantial delay?

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 12:52

a delay of over a minute..up to 2 minutes

I see the M/S had put up a rain radar image to show there was no thunderstorms...but it also contained an inteference line going north from east cape..which is often there..now so called experts are saying that it landed out in the pacific as per the M/S image..yeah right

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Thu 12/02/2015 13:14

Saw the flash through a window and heard a distant low rumble a few minutes later (in Glenfield). At the time I checked Twitter to see if anyone was reporting an electrical storm, as the flash was blue-white like lightning.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 13:43

I have emailed the reporter re the very misleading news article re the met service rain radar image showing it landed in the pacific
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11400837

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Thu 12/02/2015 14:00

Manukau heads obs wrote:I see the M/S had put up a rain radar image to show there was no thunderstorms...but it also contained an inteference line going north from east cape..which is often there..now so called experts are saying that it landed out in the pacific as per the M/S image..yeah right

I think that lightning-tracker/rain-radar image was originally tweeted by Akld Civil Defence, then retweeted onto MS's page, which MS later removed. CD since say it was just to prove there was no lightning, but why on earth would they chose that particular image with obvious radio interference pointing directly to the Mahia radar.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 17:15

I heard back from the Journalist they have corrected that news story he said

Manukau heads obs · Thu 12/02/2015 22:19

In the General February Weather thread Richard wrote:
So how loud was the boom compared to say thunder?

it was like loud thunder,but was different...was a sound you dont normaly here...it like got loud quickly..like it was arriving...and then it was like an explosion type sound then a few pops/thuds then that was it..alll over
the windows rattled...
that was my experience (I was at a BOT meeting at our local primary school...and we all like...what the heck was that...we thought something had exploded somewhere...and it was like something had hit the roof)
it was like that video in Russia where that guy was filming the smoke trail then the shock wave hit...but not as severe as that

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 12/02/2015 22:49

What I saw was the like the meteor in Russia in 2013 but not as big and long lasting, a ball of bright light with a tail moving across the sky and then a brighter flash but it was behind some cloud at that stage.

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