Possible Ts tomorrow, strong sw change, snow - 28/06/05

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 29/06/2005 21:29

Now cloudy and calm - calm before the storm?

No change since my last post, but I've just looked at the 9PM radar. Any minute now...

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 29/06/2005 21:39

tich wrote:
Now cloudy and calm - calm before the storm?
No change since my last post, but I've just looked at the 9PM radar. Any minute now...

I've just looked too

...immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm?

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 29/06/2005 22:03

The southerly has just gone through.

Boring
Good. Now I can go off to bed ..Yawn

JohnGaul
NZTS

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:06

Has it

Well what the hell am I seeing!! saw lightning!!

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:15

The southerly has just gone through.
Boring
Good. Now I can go off to bed ..Yawn

Just a bit of light rain so far. Shower band on 9PM radar may have fractured or weakened, but it might not be a quickie like this morning. MetService has predicted a moderate risk of thunder for the whole east coast of the South Island tonight.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:16

Same here steve! Lightning going off just off the coast here and I've heard thunder.

I wounder what else the night will provide!

Cheers

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:41

Just heard more thunder!

Isn't heaps mind you, atleast I got some lightning at this stage! Some rain developing now.

Cheers.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:51

Good strike went off overhead just before, got mycamera working overtime but not all the active

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 29/06/2005 22:54

Just heard more thunder!

Isn't heaps mind you, atleast I got some lightning at this stage! Some rain developing now.

Squall now lashing central Chch with driving rain, maybe some hail, and yes, thunder and lightning. Down to 5C.

The southerly has just gone through.
Boring
Good. Now I can go off to bed ..Yaw

Yeah right.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 29/06/2005 22:57

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:The southerly has just gone through.
Boring
Good. Now I can go off to bed ..Yawn

JohnGaul
NZTS

well ...
i have have just jumped back out of bed to report squall coming thru' at 2237hrs.
One flash of sheet lightning observed to the east.
...only 'dump' thunder heard.
barometer up a couple of hPas but into the average or above average category. The 1030 Scenario rolling back in again.
quite windy

I think I'll go back to bed

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 29/06/2005 23:01

....just heard another "Dump" to the NE of here.

It must of been over your house Aaron?

JohnGaul
NZTS

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 29/06/2005 23:13

Well I thinks that it, if you can call it that got a couple of flashes on my video camera but thats about it nothing on digital camera, Stills its a little bonus its Winter

. Metservice seem to have picked this one up!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 29/06/2005 23:20

03 Stormchaser wrote:Well I thinks that it, if you can call it that got a couple of flashes on my video camera but thats about it nothing on digital camera, Stills its a little bonus its Winter :0

Nothing really photographical compared to the St.Georges Day/Night-time thunderstorm.
similar conditions tho'
good on yoer Aaron for alerting us to this yesterday

johnGaul
NZTS

it's still sfericalling away...

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 29/06/2005 23:38

Yes John very simular to 23rd April

except lightning a little closer this time also got nice dump thunder with heavy rain/hail/and strong winds 60+.
Some flashes on camera but Iam not sure how they came out will investigate in the morning.
Cheers
Here's to storm season coming oct-feb 06.
JASON

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Thu 30/06/2005 10:04

Plenty of thunder and lightning here last night between about 10.40pm and 11.30, flashes about two per minute, mostly out to the east over the sea, but a few closer to being overhead. A brief period of very heavy hail at one point, but only lasted 20 seconds or so before the smaller hail and rain came in, blown in by a pretty strong SW. I was surprised the thunder and lightning went on for so long after the rain and wind arrived, I'm guessing there was more than one storm in the system.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 30/06/2005 10:48

winds not as strong here as forecasted (there was a gale warning in force)....

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Thu 30/06/2005 11:51

Another beautiful day down here in the Mackenzie. Barely a breath of wind, cloudless, and mild. It's like late spring/early summer or late summer/early autumn.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Thu 30/06/2005 12:18

Very lovly nice sunny and warm here today after last night's thunderstorm and all hands together go to Aaron for pointing this out before Met Service even put a risk up

.
Reports of Pine trees being struck at Waikuku beach may have to investigate some time soon

but otherwise I don't think my lighting came out very good on camera last night I think due to the fact by the time i was filming it the strikes were too much inside the cloud for the camera to recognise but otherwise it's best of luck for this storm season coming up.
Cheers
JASON

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 30/06/2005 13:35

What level did the snow fall to ,didn't look that cold last night. I recall Invercargill was on 8C at 9pm.

Gary said,

Another beautiful day down here in the Mackenzie. Barely a breath of wind, cloudless, and mild.

Dose mild mean temps are above 0C.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Thu 30/06/2005 14:11

I think your right Spwill, snow didn't fall to lowish levels (maybe above 500/600m in Cantab?). Apparently it gave some ok snow though at Mt Hutt where 8cm was reported to of fallen, so it was hevier than the last SW change but nothing huge to marvel at either.

Thanks John! Glad the storms last night pulled off. I looked at SST and could see that even if we did get to around 5 or 6 degrees before the change came through on land something was still possible because of the warmer sea temps, and the fact that Chch and Bank's Peninsula sticks out from the coast helped to.

They didn't seem to start though until they were over or just north of the peninsula on the east coast so perhaps that suggests it helped trigger the activity within the arimass Cb's?

Looking foward to this summer to Jason!

Cheers

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Thu 30/06/2005 14:45

spwill wrote:What level did the snow fall to ,didn't look that cold last night. I recall Invercargill was on 8C at 9pm.

I don't know about other areas, but we got none at all here.

Dose mild mean temps are above 0C.

Heh. 10.3Â° in the shade right now, and a sizzeling max of 10.6Â° a few minutes ago. Just a magic day again.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Thu 30/06/2005 20:52

What level did the snow fall to ,didn't look that cold last night. I recall Invercargill was on 8C at 9pm.

None on the Port Hills this morning that I could see. Temp got down to 5C during the storm last night, but the squall was fairly brief. Desert Road was closed this morning and TV1 Weather reported that snow had been down to 900m on the Orongorongos near Wellington (obviously only dusting the tops), but I haven't heard any other reports. I noticed that Mahia was only 6C at Noon, with recent precipitation, so east coast ranges could've got a dusting as well.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Thu 30/06/2005 20:58

tich wrote:
What level did the snow fall to ,didn't look that cold last night. I recall Invercargill was on 8C at 9pm.
None on the Port Hills this morning that I could see. Temp got down to 5C during the storm last night, but the squall was fairly brief. Desert Road was closed this morning and TV1 Weather reported that snow had been down to 900m on the Orongorongos near Wellington (obviously only dusting the tops), but I haven't heard any other reports. I noticed that Mahia was only 6C at Noon, with recent precipitation, so east coast ranges could've got a dusting as well.

High on the hills here this morning, just a light dusting. Missed any thunder or lightning here, only had the winds.

As I always mention the snow on particular hills, here's a guide of the Otago area...

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Thu 30/06/2005 21:20

Fujita Phil wrote:As I always mention the snow on particular hills, here's a guide of the Otago area...

OY!

Why the hell isn't Omarama on that map, huh? We're classified as North Otago, darn it!

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Thu 30/06/2005 21:29

Gary Roberts wrote:
Fujita Phil wrote:As I always mention the snow on particular hills, here's a guide of the Otago area...
OY!

Why the hell isn't Omarama on that map, huh? We're classified as North Otago, darn it!

Sorry Gary... and I have a soft spot for Omarama... bought my first ever dozen of beer (DB) at the bottlestore many years ago

. Used to spend a bit of time at Sailor's Cutting, skiing and of course drinking.

What's the township? 430m?