Just finished going through the rest of my pictures from Saturday. I found a better one of Oaia island and one of the squall not too far off.
The island is 1.4km off the beach to give it some scale of distance. The white dots on top are gannetts.
Cheers,
G
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Don't worry, 100% of the Dargaville/Kaipara population wouldn't know this fact.squid wrote:home of the squall line eh umm care to explain lol sorry having a blonde moment here
From Weatherzone:
Squall Line:
A solid or nearly solid band of active thunderstorms. Generally, the distance between individual storms is less than the diameter of the individual storms. Accompanied by strong, squally winds. Generally occur in situations of little directional wind shear but strong speed shear.
Another good link: http://www.theweatherprediction.com/habyhints/150/
Kaipara has the most squall line occurances in Aotearoa, closely followed by the Kawhia-Hamilton-Raglan triangle, which often weaken as they reach Auckland in an unstable W to SW flow.
If I were you, i'd change my username to Squally Squid!