Good double rainbow with the spillover, thensnowstormwatcher wrote: ↑Fri 08/11/2019 14:54Strong NW here also, Arrived around 6.30/7am along with some brief spillover rain, Fine and warm now with 27c.NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Fri 08/11/2019 12:11 Woken up to very strong gale force NW around 6am this morning. Things flying around everywhere. Not seen winds this strong in Geraldine.
Seems it was a local event ?
Went for a drive up the Downs, noticed a lot of leaves and twigs around the place.
...was expecting more due to the severity of the wind, especially the initial gusts which were very strong, especially here.
No newspaper this morning as it probably blew away and one of the panels of the glasshouse came off.
The umbrella over our outside furniture came off and landed next door.
I don't know if any trampolines were hurled away by the wind gusts.
Definitely the strongest gusts that I've experienced here, nearly as strong as the big wind we experienced in 2013 at West Melton where we lost 7 50 year pine trees from the NW.