1.2mm in the gauge much better than the nothing we got yesterday, and i also noticed the rain drops too John large but certainly melted hail stones i think.
I had about 5 seconds of very large hail immediately before the showers began - large enough for me to rush out to pick up my sick chook and put her in the undergrowth!
Steven Graham wrote:Pic of the southerly buster approaching Templeton just after 2pm.
Here's my pictures of the same event. One from Hampton's Road in Prebbleton looking SW where I observed one CC of lightning and another of arriving home as the southerly buster moved over.
Notice the high-tec. Storm chase mobility vehicle
JohnGaul
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Gee, John, there's a few crappy old direlict morris minors just sitting on the side of the road out your way! They're even the same colour!
darn....for some reason my windspeed has stopped recording....during a heavy rain event ..along with 45 knot winds....might be water in a connection...maybe...have had a look in the rain with a torch but cant find anything obvious in the dark.....darn it...
There goes the flick from the cold front, delivered another shower of rain here.
Interesting on the news weather tonight showing snow showers falling on the Dunedin Hill suburbs if i am correct, that must be snow to 300-400m was it even forecast?.
You can clearly see the trough just south of Wellington on the 8pm radar, now for the first low system busy times .
Can't believe how warm it is!! Has been 16-16.5°C since dusk, DP about the same. Doesn't seem to be going anywhere so maybe a low over 15 tonight for parts?
activity on the front has all but ceased. should just be a wet and possibly windy day, but, unless some uplift occurs, there wont be much in the way of thunder.
light easterly wind in the auckland area again this morning..just like yesterday morning...i.e the warm front must have moved back north onto us again!
I expected the lightning activity to die away on that front as the instability was modeled to weaken on it as it crossed the Tasman. We will see what happens with it today, hopefully more storms could fire on it this afternoon/evening. It crosses Auckland around 6pm by the looks.
The warm front is shifting south now. NW kicking in here with temp rise. I'm hopeful we get a dry interlude between now and the cold front later, or is that wishful thinking LOL.
Current dewpoint is 13C, higher dp air is just north of Auckland, should spread back down ahead of the Front.
Good temp spread from south to North with this system, at 6am Gore was -2C and Whangarei 17C, at mid day yesterday Gore was 5C and Whangarei 21C, a 16C difference.
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