General April Weather

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Clouding up from the south now with some low cloud coming off the coast. A bit of a SE blowing now from the SE direction. Having trouble trying to lodge on the Rakaia Rain-radar

[03Stormchaser]

Looking like Banks Peninsula the most likely spot for a possible TS today. Problem in Canterbury will be the westerly ahead of the southerly change. Ideally want a NE which is not signaled in any modeling. Dps' will be good off the coast 10C.

Will either take a drive to birdlings flat tonight or watch the lightning from home in rolleston.
Should be some nice looking clouds atleast

Up in Northland for a few days so missing today's chances sadly

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nothing happening here but cooling down now.
Light variable winds, with no westerly component to concern any development except maybe higher up.
Humidity up to 60% which probably produced a few drops of rain from a clear but hazy sky above around 3pm.
Lower cloud moving in now from the East or SE.

[Richard]

Three days of on and off gales should be taking a break once the wind change gets here.

[Chris W]

Dark clouds that looked beautiful in the setting sun coming in, but not sure how substantial they are. MetService site is having trouble so no radar, it’s window-watching time

[Orion]

I drove through a bit of scattered splashy rain between Methven and Ashburton around 4:30pm today.
Could glimpse a big billowing white tower at times through the low-level cloud.
Wondered if I'd just now heard thunder and discovered the radar outage.

[carrot]

Seeing a few lightning flashes to the south

[LinksviewAcres]

Lightning overhead in hornby.

[Chris W]

Lights just flickered, and thunder!

[mattyj46]

Looks horrible watching the Crusaders Sunwolves on TV!

[Chris W]

Oh yeah it’s on now, frequent flashes and torrential rain.

[Karliosis]

Reasonable little storm through Somerfield, brief heavy rain, small hail and decent lightning, some quite close

[Razor]

At the rugby... That was epic!!

[Dean.]

Flashes of lightning to our south...more to come perhaps

[TonyT]

One big clap of thunder over Amberley then a brief but very intense rain shower. Good call from those who saw thunder with this situation, I didnt think it looked likely myself.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

A coastal thunderstorm moved across Rangitata Island about 8:30pm this/yesterdy evening whilst my wife and I were attenting a function at the local areodrome there.
Some noisy rumbles of thunder were heard to make a few people rush outside and appreciate what was going on. I took some movie sh0ts which I'll post up later. A few Cg's were noted.
It was interesting to hear people's comments about the thunder, heard.

[mikestormchaser]

Unfortunately I missed the bloody action! As i went to mt Somers to see Aaron tonight. Knowing there was a chance tonight.
We did see flashes from his house witch was Cool! But getting reports from others was hard when your not there.

[Richard]

Never even thought of looking to the south last night, didn't notice any front passing here last night.

[Razor]

A very close lightning flash during the hail at the rugby last night

[midgrove]

24 hours now with no observations, radar or sat images on metservice website. Not only that there are no New Zealand synop reports in international bulletins for the last 24 hours so what is that going to do to the weather models?

[Razor]

Models starting to look interesting for next weekend. I see Tony picking up on the potential for something significant too over at Blue Skies. Watching brief....

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I see if last night's thunderstorm off the coast of Rangitata Island works.


....sorry , it dosen't

so I'll put this one here for your amusement instead.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

hey, the photoshoots worked, sorry about the 2 traction engines having a potato race, which I thought maybe a shot you, may like to see whitlst trying to work out how to post last night thunderstorm off the coast.

[Cyclone Tracy]

Most models really getting off the leash on the 12z for next weekend. GFS going a fujiwhara effect scenario with a major hit on the NI from the initial superior cold core low and significant polar feed upper trough in the mix. Still needs few more runs before locking in but the sea surface temp is supportive of a major synoptic scale Tasman cyclonic gyre ATM.

[Richard]

Clear calm nights are in winter mode sad to say, still, got the lovely warm days though, but the end of this week is starting to look like a major low pressure developing over northern areas.