The Meteologix site had a strike on Favona Road in Mangere Bridge around 5am. I think that will be reasonably accurate. These lightning detection systems do not catch all the lightning, particularly IC.
Had some small hail here in the last hour, almost looked like snow pellets.
Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Brief pea hail during the night and this morning but did not hear any of the thunder locally as the strikes were too far south. 22mm so far for the thread.
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This was useful last night for picking up a thunderstorm about 100km SE of Wellington. Where Blitzortung was picking up nothing, GOES-17 was picking up about 1 strike per minute, which was about what I observed. A+ will use againWilloughby wrote: ↑Sat 03/08/2019 21:22 The GLM sensor aboard the new GOES-17 picking up a bit of lightning tonight over Westland with the cold front:
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Plenty of snow pics on Facebook coming out of south Waikato and king country. Very low snow for lots of places in south Waikato
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Dusting of snow on some higher hills on Banks Peninsula this morning, but only above about 600-700m. Plus some hail on ground at Hilltop.
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I woke to an almighty crack and then heard a long rumble. Then a flash and rumble. Gave me a helluva fright. I’m in South Auckland.
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Nice and sunny day here but with a strong SW blowing.
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Blowing more of a WNW here, cold too.NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 05/08/2019 14:08 Nice and sunny day here but with a strong SW blowing.