Canterbury thunderstorm possiblities, Sat, Mon, Wed
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Thanks guys for your reports and photo's from yesterday.
Hopefully more Storms down your way today.
Paul said,
Hopefully more Storms down your way today.
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Yes, the weather around Thunderstorms tends to be very local especially with hail.Even though you only observed very small hail in a couple of cases, ofcourse it doesn't mean that larger hail didn't occur somewhere
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very unstable air over the south Island. Hopefully the surface conditions can come togeather to allow some convection to fire. Ideally you want that colder southerly change to hold off as much as possible to allow some surface heating the development of a NE.
That unstable air will be over the NI tomorrow.
Had what looked to be a weak front go through here about an hour ago with a 5mins of quite heavy rain from low topped cbs.
That unstable air will be over the NI tomorrow.
Had what looked to be a weak front go through here about an hour ago with a 5mins of quite heavy rain from low topped cbs.
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Thanks Gary.Gary Roberts wrote:I'd say the biggest I saw fall here in Omarama was only around 10mm maximum, and most was half that size.Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:...we couldn't possibly cover everywhere so it's very possible some bigger hail did fall in areas...
Southerly has just gone through Timaru (at 11am and only 9kts) and pressure is rising. There is a convergence line of east to west oriented showers on the radar not really moving much at the moment just south of them. Expect to see it surge northward I would think.
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Paul what do right chances of thunder on the plains now then? as front has stalled some what over mid-Cnaterbury
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It looks like the slow moving convergence line on the radar isn't a big player. The radar shows somes storms developing inland with the biggest one over the Rangitata River inland. Have detected hail and have a lightning strike on this one. There is another cell northwest of Christchurch.03 Stormchaser wrote:Paul what do right chances of thunder on the plains now then? as front has stalled some what over mid-Cnaterbury
So it looks like they are going to fire quite nicely inland with the sotuhsoutheast onshore flow this afternoon.
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Anybody else have problems with forum pics not loading? I thought it was an Opera browser issue at first but it happens in Firefox also, and in Internet Exploder on my wife's Windows PC.Jasestrm wrote:Yes some moisture indications out there alright especailly to my NW.
I hope the southerly gets kicking in soon .
Here's my pics from yesterday i thought id post these now and post todays later on.
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Just wondering.
And after an otherwise glorious morning, it's gone quite dark here in Omarama, with more rain and hail falling.
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Set my camera up and taped for about 8 mins dont know if i got anything i didnt see any flashes but will have to see.
After that had 2 showers of rain come through most recent one 10 minutes ago with large drops of rain and moderate close to being heavy.
Still NE here at the moment beginning to wonder if the southerly is coming some nice fine breaks appearing further inland and a few Cells visable there still more to come lets see.
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After that had 2 showers of rain come through most recent one 10 minutes ago with large drops of rain and moderate close to being heavy.
Still NE here at the moment beginning to wonder if the southerly is coming some nice fine breaks appearing further inland and a few Cells visable there still more to come lets see.
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Just come back in from Homebush, behind Darfield.
Sadly nothing to report. Sky filled in and came onto rain.
...and that's it.
However going down Blenheim Road, the sky looked more spectacular as a bit of a convergence formed.
Got home and found 6.6mm in rain-gauge from a possible heavy downpour just previous to this.
Anyway, no lightning/thunder seen or observed or sferics heard on radio
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Sadly nothing to report. Sky filled in and came onto rain.
...and that's it.
However going down Blenheim Road, the sky looked more spectacular as a bit of a convergence formed.
Got home and found 6.6mm in rain-gauge from a possible heavy downpour just previous to this.
Anyway, no lightning/thunder seen or observed or sferics heard on radio
JohnGaul
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