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Spwill, there is no funnel cloud in that photo!
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:D :D :D Just got back from the chase with tgsnoopy.. got LOTS of pics to share! :P :P

Brian we were trying to get hold of you all day.. lol oh well.. the hamradio operaters that kept us up to date (kaimaikid was one of 4) headed us in the wrong direction at times.. anyway we got HUGE as hail in Temple View!! (West of Hamilton) Just .4mm from the storm in Hamilton East
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maybe it was a indraught cloud?

new cb line going up just east of the city now :)

20mm at brynderwyn they got, with lots of thunder :)
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can u point out exactly where the funnel is if there is one in there i coudl not find one mate on another note storms are going nuts over the BOP and Gisbone area according to the tracker
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sounds like a good chase in the waikato!
shame I had to milk cows...
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Spwill, there is no funnel cloud in that photo!
Looks like I'm the only one who thinks it's was a Funnel

Here's one more pic
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spwill wrote:
Spwill, there is no funnel cloud in that photo!
Looks like I'm the only one who thinks it's was a Funnel

Here's one more pic
Im with you on this one!!

Cant understand why not more of you have video cameras?? :roll:
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The tracker is really going off around the Te Kaha area on the East Cape.

Just had another look to the south - the large cb shows up beautifully in the evening light.
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Good thunderstorm to the SW of Whangamata now - lots of visible lightning - strong inflow winds from the NE blowing now - impressive towers going up at a rate of knots
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Don't understand why the lightning to the west of us isn't showing up on the tracker - lots of IC, and some CGs visible, but nothing on the tracker? Is there a delay inherent in the processing?

http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html
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Thanks for the report Peter,

Boltech tracker is picking up 60 strikes/min from that BOP direction currently.

As if we need to see more cb photos here is a pic of a developing cb/ts over east AK this afternoon.
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Peter Wharton wrote:Don't understand why the lightning to the west of us isn't showing up on the tracker - lots of IC, and some CGs visible, but nothing on the tracker? Is there a delay inherent in the processing?

http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html
Boltech tracker is picking up 60 strikes/min from that BOP direction currently.
RR has it right under thames.. same thunderstorm which ripped through Pirongia/Hamilton

Ricky';s tracker needs restarting.. didnt help us much today
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Don't understand why the lightning to the west of us isn't showing up on the tracker - lots of IC, and some CGs visible, but nothing on the tracker? Is there a delay inherent in the processing?
The tracker can't accurately place the lightning. All those strikes over eastern BOP on the tracker are infact over the Coromandal.
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Two distinct cells - can see the one towards Thames, another one south of that - with lightning arcing between the two cells
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Mammatus clouds? View from my house in South Auckland. Fingers crossed for a bit of wx coming our way.
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Those cb's over the Coromandal are clearly visable here in Grey Lynn!! Lots of congestus.
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NZstorm wrote: The tracker can't accurately place the lightning. All those strikes over eastern BOP on the tracker are infact over the Coromandal.
Makes the tool a little less than useful, eh? Is a reset required, or is this a permanent problem? <new to using this tracker in NZ>

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cb over souther coromandel putting on lightning snow now!!
can see it from here, you aucklanders will too!
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Peopled_Diagram wrote:Mammatus clouds? View from my house in South Auckland. Fingers crossed for a bit of wx coming our way.
Yip! Sure is.

The cb's to the east and south-east just look awesome in the sunset - I'm running out of superlatives :D
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Peopled_Diagram wrote:Mammatus clouds? View from my house in South Auckland. Fingers crossed for a bit of wx coming our way.
Storms moving along the west side of the Coromandel peninsula - strong inflow winds here with towers still going up behind the storms - lots of lightning, and the first one doesn't seem to dissipating yet, although the trailing cell seems to be running out of puff.

Let me know if it arrives in Auckland :)

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Yes, can see the lightning from here now. :)

Storm will be moving northward I think.
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all the storms that have been up this way today have been moving NNW so i would expect the coromandel storms to do the same
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Bah I knew we should've headed towards Thames! :D :D
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NNW looks like the direction the storm is moving from here as well
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Out to the east I have been watching two adjacent towering CB's with like a hole in the middle of them. Fabulous array of horizontal (forked)lightning. Its stunning to see.

Next question will be what is the diff between horiz and vertical lightning ;)
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