Strong W flow (thunder, gales, heavy rain) Aug 25 - Sep 3

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Looks as if some heavy shower activity moved through Canterbury just inland of the city this morning and now a little more coastal in North Canterbury outskirts. The NNE breeze here is very fresh and gusty now. Up to 15 degrees. Gusting to 45km/h average speed of 20km/h. The winds are greater than they were on Sunday already

[Storm Struck]

Its not NNE here Mark its westerly and up on gale force at times, the other thread shall continue even though its now september atleast just until this flow is over by the end of this week.

[Andrew Massie]

Some good anvils over the alps this morning...!

[Storm Struck]

Wind has slightly backed off here at the moment, But certainly some good gusts before.
Looks like a thunderstorm about Southland currently and going by the 10am radar, and i see MS have amended a low risk of severe thunderstorms down south too.
Yes Andrew very wispy windswept looking clouds.

[mattyj46]

A few rumbles of thunder in the last few minutes heard.

[Vertigo]

yea i see a lot of strikes all over the south island today, but fairly localized. pretty unstable everywhere in the south really.

[mattyj46]

Issued by MetService at 01:07 pm Tuesday 01 September 2009
Valid until 07:00 am Wednesday 02 September 2009
This watch affects people in the following weather forecast districts:
Clutha
Southland
Fiordland
Stewart Island


A very strong unstable westerly flow covers the southern South Island with squally thunderstorms.

About Southern Fiordland, Stewart Island, coastal Southland and the Catlins area, some of the squalls from these thunderstorms may be damaging with gusts reaching 120km/hr at times today (Tuesday) and overnight.

Wind gusts of this strength can cause some structural damage, including damage to trees and power lines, and may make driving hazardous especially for high-sided vechicles and motorcycles.

The wind gusts should start easing from about 3am Wednesday.

Issued by: John Crouch

This watch will be updated by: 09:00 pm Tuesday 01 September 2009

[Razor]

Certainly is fair howling accross Hagley Park right now. Gusty. Otherwise yet another glorious blue dome day.

[Razor]

All time new wind record for our Davis station today...

Gusts to 90 km/h with a max 10-min average of 70 km/h... unreal!!

You are in Darwin? Seems a bit cold for there?

[Tornado Tim]

All time new wind record for our Davis station today...

Gusts to 90 km/h with a max 10-min average of 70 km/h... unreal!!

You are in Darwin? Seems a bit cold for there?

I am not sure if your joking or not....but anyway
He is referring to His and Jamies weather station in Horsham Downs.

[Razor]

I am not sure if your joking or not....but anyway
He is referring to His and Jamies weather station in Horsham Downs.

Oh, his profile says his location is Darwin... maybe it needs an update

[Tornado Tim]

I am not sure if your joking or not....but anyway
He is referring to His and Jamies weather station in Horsham Downs.

Oh, his profile says his location is Darwin... maybe it needs an update

He is still in Darwin but Jamie is holding his station for him
I think he will be coming back in October for a Holiday....

[mattyj46]

Looking very back towards Bluff just looking out the window.

[mattyj46]

Getting some small hail now.

[Storm Struck]

After a very windy day the windiest in ages its calm, although it will be nice looking west and SW tonight with flashes visable.

[melja]

How come posts i have just read gone now

[melja]

Wish people would stop playing around with subjects on here! its a mess with posts missing topics moved and topic headings all over the place, please just leave it alone.

[TonyT]

The only posts which have been deleted or edited are the ones asking for this thread to be changed! Initially it was suggested the posts about today's weather be put in a September thread, since the old thread referred to the end of August. So I did that. Then Jasestorm asked if they could be put back into this thread as they were part of a specific event, so I did that, and changed the title of the thread to reflect that it is an event thread, not an end of the month thread. OK?

[NZstorm]

Good old fashioned cold air advection over southern NZ tonight on sat pic. We havn't seen much of this this year!

[Storm Struck]

Sorry Tony it wasnt meant to cause any problems, i just thought that because the W-SW was meant to continue for a few days yet that we may as well lump it into this one until Thursday.
Then that way its easier to find for future refference, the general September weather i thought was created for when the weather wasnt so rough ie ( High pressure, fine calm days ).

[Myself]

"Interesting" weather is on the way out over the next few days anyway. Perfect! Get rid of those ridiculous thunderstorms and winds, and give us more sunshine. If the forecast works out well, Wellington should have a decent day tomorrow.

[RWood]

Not that we can complain about lack of sunshine here - a complete turnaround from July, with the area of greatest deficiency in July (Kapiti-Wellington-Wairarapa) being part of the one with the greatest surplus in August. On the other hand it looks as if Central Otago has had its 4th straight month of deficient sunshine.

[Michael]

Thats something good we can say about this winter is generally not many anticyclonic windy SW days which without makes quite a good climate.

[spwill]

I see snow has fallen down to about 400-450m level around Queenstown, the last decent low level snowfall of the year I'm guessing.

Impressive pool of Cb over SW NZ for the last 24hrs.

[southernthrash]

Great morning in Invercargill. Had a wicked bout of thunder around 4 am, intermittently continuing since then. Heavy hail showers, with some sleet mixed in. Had a good flurry around 8am with large heavy flakes coming down pretty consistently for about 10 minutes.

Would probably be quite interesting to head 10 - 15 minutes inland, may do that later on.