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Weekend weather report from Arthurs Pass;
Arrived Fri night to see some great purple flashes in the clouds, about one every 10 minutes. Unpacked quickly, and no more thunder! (About 1900)
Early Sat Morning 0530 about 3 rumbles of thunder heard, and that was it!
Saturday 1700 heard 1!
Nothing on bloody Sunday!
Continuous rain all weekend, Jase's amazing Waimak (with the "good north") will be running high and muddy.
However left Sunday 1300 to see the Westpac Rescue chopper feeling its way around under about a 200ft cloud ceiling in heavy rain for a car accident near the Otira Viaduct.. That chopper's worth it's weight in gold!
Overall VERY dissappointing... The thunder I DID hear was great and echoed for at least 30 seconds around the mountains.
Andrew
Arrived Fri night to see some great purple flashes in the clouds, about one every 10 minutes. Unpacked quickly, and no more thunder! (About 1900)
Early Sat Morning 0530 about 3 rumbles of thunder heard, and that was it!
Saturday 1700 heard 1!
Nothing on bloody Sunday!
Continuous rain all weekend, Jase's amazing Waimak (with the "good north") will be running high and muddy.
However left Sunday 1300 to see the Westpac Rescue chopper feeling its way around under about a 200ft cloud ceiling in heavy rain for a car accident near the Otira Viaduct.. That chopper's worth it's weight in gold!
Overall VERY dissappointing... The thunder I DID hear was great and echoed for at least 30 seconds around the mountains.
Andrew
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i would think you would want to keep going west, as the thunderstorms would have weakened alot by the time they got to arthurs pass
but thats just my thoughts
here is a weather web site for the area
http://www.softrock.co.nz/mg/apmc.php?page=6
note they have not adjusted the baro to sea level
but thats just my thoughts
here is a weather web site for the area
http://www.softrock.co.nz/mg/apmc.php?page=6
note they have not adjusted the baro to sea level
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Yeah, I would have... But the roaring fire and no radio or tv but lots of alcomahol dealt to any idea of westward travel! Emma prob wouldn't have appreciated me chasing storms on our romantic getaway!Manukau heads observer wrote:i would think you would want to keep going west, as the thunderstorms would have weakened alot by the time they got to arthurs pass
but thats just my thoughts
here is a weather web site for the area
http://www.softrock.co.nz/mg/apmc.php?page=6
note they have not adjusted the baro to sea level
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Aaron and I saw flashes when we crossed the Bealey Bridge and then when we arrived at AP Village at 18:15 that night.Andrew Massie wrote:Weekend weather report from Arthurs Pass;
Arrived Fri night to see some great purple flashes in the clouds, about one every 10 minutes. Unpacked quickly, and no more thunder! (About 1900)
The last flash we saw before we got to the Coast was when we were stopped at the temporary lights (where that accident occured) at about 18:30. It was incredibly bright and we heard the thunder only a couple of seconds later even over the sound of the rain on the car roof.However left Sunday 1300 to see the Westpac Rescue chopper feeling its way around under about a 200ft cloud ceiling in heavy rain for a car accident near the Otira Viaduct.. That chopper's worth it's weight in gold!
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So how far towards Otira were those traffic lights?Steven Graham wrote:Aaron and I saw flashes when we crossed the Bealey Bridge and then when we arrived at AP Village at 18:15 that night.Andrew Massie wrote:Weekend weather report from Arthurs Pass;
Arrived Fri night to see some great purple flashes in the clouds, about one every 10 minutes. Unpacked quickly, and no more thunder! (About 1900)The last flash we saw before we got to the Coast was when we were stopped at the temporary lights (where that accident occured) at about 18:30. It was incredibly bright and we heard the thunder only a couple of seconds later even over the sound of the rain on the car roof.However left Sunday 1300 to see the Westpac Rescue chopper feeling its way around under about a 200ft cloud ceiling in heavy rain for a car accident near the Otira Viaduct.. That chopper's worth it's weight in gold!
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Few strikes raning on tracker alon east coast just latly and i see on CHCH forecast it says for tomorrow showers possible morning storm interesting.
Should be some good heavy possibly thundery showers coming trough overnight a nice cool NE kicked in this arvo certainly some nice mares tails and cirrus forms this afternoon a sign of whats to come perhaps .
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Should be some good heavy possibly thundery showers coming trough overnight a nice cool NE kicked in this arvo certainly some nice mares tails and cirrus forms this afternoon a sign of whats to come perhaps .
Cheers
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All that i could manage tonight, storms to far away for camera to do them justice. Still I enjoyed watching the show from Birdlings Flat.
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Thanks Steve for supplying pictures of a rather disapointing show.
I think you have to be exposed to the west to enjoy a good lightning show these days
There was a good footage of lightning in the clouds this morning in Wellington on the weather on TV One news tonight.
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I think you have to be exposed to the west to enjoy a good lightning show these days
There was a good footage of lightning in the clouds this morning in Wellington on the weather on TV One news tonight.
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Yeh well still nice to observe some lighting anyway i tried getting flashes on camera no sucess worth a try tough.
Maybe a boom and flash when the wind change comes through early hours not staying up for though.
Like this sattelite of the CB a classic indeed.
Cheers
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Maybe a boom and flash when the wind change comes through early hours not staying up for though.
Like this sattelite of the CB a classic indeed.
Cheers
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Aaron and I drove out to the coast near Taumutu and watched the storm for an hour or so from just after 9pm. The best lightning we saw was on the way there and as we were setting up This included a flash with three separate CG return strokes !
These are crops from DSLR photos - trying to zoom in usually meant I missed the lightning completely
I haven't checked the video footage which was pointing at a different part of the storm but it probably won't be very good with the distance involved.
These are crops from DSLR photos - trying to zoom in usually meant I missed the lightning completely
I haven't checked the video footage which was pointing at a different part of the storm but it probably won't be very good with the distance involved.
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Heavy squally showers continue here.. with a gusty cool westerly
Incoming high looks rather cloudy (here atleast).. and the next two lows gearing up could get interesting
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Incoming high looks rather cloudy (here atleast).. and the next two lows gearing up could get interesting
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