Afternoon Showers & Thunder, Upper North, 27th-1st.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 30/09/2006 17:07

i heard on the radio reports of flash flooding in west auckland...
some looking cbs up over kaipara somewhere in the last hour

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:18

The family decided to go shopping at WestGate and reported really heavy rain. Just a few spits here approx 20km north.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:19

without looking outside, I'd say that was the end of it for today.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:19

Showers weakened as they came off the Waitaks, just a brief mod shower here, now sunny again.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:23

GraemeWi wrote:The family decided to go shopping at WestGate and reported really heavy rain. Just a few spits here approx 20km north.

Yeah, sure looked it. I was truely expecting some CG's with this one.

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:26

No rain at all here - cloudy and very dull/boring.....

.....SIGH.....

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sat 30/09/2006 17:37

Maybe still life in the Kaipara system

Edit - 30 minutes after the picture it's now filling the northern half of the sky. Very dark bases. Should be onto us within the next 30 minutes. Hopefully it will have some rain left in it for the tanks.

Edit #2 - despite looking very good we got about 30 seconds of rain. Oh well, I did charge up some camera batteries today so it again proves my theory about charged camera batteries and interesting weather!

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Sat 30/09/2006 20:26

Warm one here at Christchurch today! i didnt catch the weather, it was around 18C quite pleasnt.In for some showers i think some time tomorrow.
Hopefully turning out nice again on monday!

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sat 30/09/2006 21:35

GraemeWi wrote: well, I did charge up some camera batteries today so it again proves my theory about charged camera batteries and interesting weather!

Ok, you are no longer allowed to charge your camera batteries. If it can't take AA batteries, you are to buy one that can. You are also to buy a stock of AA Lithium batteries for it.

Hopefully that will stop the jinxing.

I saw a lot of potential early today, but it didn't last. Beautiful day! Got a bit burnt again and decided I need to top up the gas in the car's air conditioning.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 01/10/2006 00:54

Looks like a high risk of thunderstorms over Northland today.

But... boy! Does Monday look impressive!! especially around midnight as the trough heads over.. -26C @ 500mb over Auckland. Very moist warm infeed up from the sub-tropics.. dewpoints could stay as high as 15C that night in Tauranga.
Will we see a lot of night time lightning Mon night?
Looks like the instability of the trough will destabilise further over northern Bay of Plenty sea as lapse rates steepen considerably.
Will have to see..

Manukau heads obs · Sun 01/10/2006 05:41

pre frontal showers are lightning active, being traked nicely by the 3 boltecs, to the NW of auckland
the rain has stopped the electric fence interference, it must have been a dry joint...

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sun 01/10/2006 09:02

Manukau heads observer wrote:pre frontal showers are lightning active, being traked nicely by the 3 boltecs, to the NW of auckland
the rain has stopped the electric fence interference, it must have been a dry joint...

From that description there is a good chance the interference was being caused by a poor connection between two wires in the fence rather than a leakage to earth. It would explain why you couldn't find it too!

Darn it, now I want to drive up with appropriate equipment to go look for it, but it isn't doing it right now... Sigh.

Take some graphite grease with you (It's conductive) and put a bit on any joints you are suspect of, it's quick and very effective.

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Sun 01/10/2006 09:05

Foggy Hamilton wrote:boy! Does Monday look impressive!! especially around midnight as the trough heads over.. -26C @ 500mb over Auckland. Very moist warm infeed up from the sub-tropics.. dewpoints could stay as high as 15C that night in Tauranga.
Will we see a lot of night time lightning Mon night?
Looks like the instability of the trough will destabilise further over northern Bay of Plenty sea as lapse rates steepen considerably.
Will have to see..

Excellent.... Dare I say it... Charging video camera batteries as we speak.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sun 01/10/2006 10:36

I have work inside on Monday afternoon and Monday evening, so my prediction is those are the most likely times for action!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 01/10/2006 10:54

I have work inside on Monday afternoon and Monday evening, so my prediction is those are the most likely times for action!

Decided a week ago that this Monday should be kept free

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sun 01/10/2006 11:44

spwill wrote:
I have work inside on Monday afternoon and Monday evening, so my prediction is those are the most likely times for action!
Decided a week ago that this Monday should be kept free

I like the way you think, get out and about. Non of this wait and see attitude, get out about in it!!

Great chasers think a like!!

Its good to be reading reports again on this forum, its been to long since last spring, but please share them around!!

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sun 01/10/2006 12:27

No storms down here on Banks Peninsula, just cloudy with high cloud and some weak sunshine. Forecast showers haven't arrived yet, but looking at the radar, there appears to be light rain from northern Chch northwards. Southerly (or southeasterly - that's the wind direction reported at Hillmorton, unusual for Chch) has freshened up a bit this morning.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sun 01/10/2006 12:30

Heavy rain has started at my location - along with a drop of about 4Â° brrr!

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 12:48

Looking ominous here. Wind picking up a bit

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 01/10/2006 13:41

Yes Tich there has been a little bit of light rain here this morning not much though just enough to wet the concrete.
Could be a little bit of heavy rain on Wednesday when the wind switches from easterly to southerly otherwise this week here looks dull

although clearing friday

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Must say next wekend onwards could be something to watch for

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Cheers
Jason.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 01/10/2006 13:45

Raining steadily here. Is this a warm front?

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 01/10/2006 13:52

NZstorm wrote:Raining steadily here. Is this a warm front?

certainly feels like it, steady rain here too

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Sun 01/10/2006 14:34

Periodic heavy showers here.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sun 01/10/2006 14:38

Steady rain with occasional heavy downpours interspersed here in the kauri forests of the Waitakeres. Very very damp indeed

Manukau heads obs · Sun 01/10/2006 14:50

i think its a warm font alright, the rain started slowly....as the cloud thickened slowly...
temperature dropped alot too...
rain radar shows the main bulk of rain will move through in another hour or so , followed by heavy shower lines....
another burst of rain moving down from the north though going by the sat image....will hit the far north this evening...then tomorrow we could have an active cold front on our doorstep