That rain was very brief; sunny off and on since 4pm; great line of significant-looking clouds heading north now and drifting in from east; would expect another southerly wind soon after 6pm.
Nice photo Joe, wind is a very light W-SW here at the moment with scatterd CU visable mixed in with virga and a few spots of rain.
Westerly up top and SW around mid level, rather interesting to watch.
Yes, despite the cloud forms not much of a southerly change, but then if we did get a good thunderstorm, I think a lot of people would be upset from the thunder, thinking it's another strong aftershock.
We may be not as good as Auckland for thunder but we can beat them now with earthquakes!
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Yes, despite the cloud forms not much of a southerly change, but then if we did get a good thunderstorm, I think a lot of people would be upset from the thunder, thinking it's another strong aftershock.
We may be not as good as Auckland for thunder but we can beat them now with earthquakes!
JohnGaul
NZThS
just after I typed and posted the above, a southerly squall arrived with cold winds and rain.
A farmer lost a cowshed roof and another farmer's hayshed was blown to bits when a tornado swept across farmland at Oaonui, in south Taranaki, this afternoon.
Haydn Langton was milking at the time the twister wrought its havoc, about 4.15pm, spooking both his herd and himself.
He said he was relieved that twister narrowly avoided his house.
The Opunake volunteer fire brigade was quickly on scene to secure the roof and help clean up.
Down on Hitona Rd, Snoz Hamilton was counting his lucky stars after the tornado ripped up trees and smashed his hayshed.
The tornado threat for Taranaki was in the gfs a couple of days prior but there was a question mark on the instability. There is a similar set up over the upper North Island tomorrow (Auckland,BOP), very good low level shear along the front but NZ style instability(weak).
A green NW wind change came through at 2.00 pm while i was in the garden but has died down a bit as it got dark,MetS have Kaikoura at 12C tomorrow with a NW wind .....wrong,i think it should be at least 18C if the wind does get there like they say it will.
Yes hope some decent sunshine will come soon for a reasonable period,blossoms are about a month later than last year,no inspiration really to weed the gardens or cut the lawns yet....
Well that was the most insane rainfall ive been through yet, borderline corepunching a sout east queensland storm!
Ironically i was driving back from pukke when it unloaded, rivers of water down the gutters, across SH22.. never had to use full speed wipers on the car until now & even then I was struggling to do 40km/h due atrocious road conditions.. guessing that was the tail end of one of the fronts.
Narrows bridge is now closed due to flooding...... they had problems with that bridge unrelated to flooding (mainly ppl crashing into it) before but now instead of being reduced to 1 lane now nothing, LOL
This is a bridge that is commonly used to get into Hamilton Airport via Tamahere from SH1.
The only other way to get there now is to go via Ohapo.
Tornado Tim wrote:Narrows bridge is now closed due to flooding...... they had problems with that bridge unrelated to flooding (mainly ppl crashing into it) before but now instead of being reduced to 1 lane now nothing, LOL
This is a bridge that is commonly used to get into Hamilton Airport via Tamahere from SH1.
The only other way to get there now is to go via Ohapo.
The reason for one lane was because of bank erosion on one side. they reduced the traffic flow to help engineers asses the bridge. I assume now with the high river levels the engineers have decided erosion has made the bridge unsafe.