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it seems like the hook echo has lost its strength as it nears the coast.

More activity out to the west but I am sure it wont match what we saw here earlier this evening.
Photo, Lightning over eastern parts of Auckland

Thats a good shot spwill. Thats the cb tops at the top of the pic. Cool.

Another lot of lightning active Cbs moving in West of Northland now..
What a great grandstand view of the earlier thunderstorms from here on the roof in Grey Lynn, in a warm light breeze under clearing sky while almost continuous lightning ran from horizon to horizon only a few km to the east!

Great photo's guys , looks like the classic thunderstorms for up north instead of the more common embedded ones.
Its times like these i think another tornado has touched down somewhere, definatly as waterspouts offshore i would imagine looking at those radars.

21 amazing pics here everone: http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/y ... r-auckland

Thanks to those on the forum who sent them in...btw, managed to promote the forum in a press release today

weak storm to my north west at the moment. seeing the odd flash and low frequency distant rumble.

scrap that thought. Just saw a doozy anvil crawler streak across the sky. so not weak by any means

evening or should i say almost morning again *overtired yawn* - well, the wind woke me... it was nice and quiet when i went to sleep this evening... now... there's been some low distant rumbles out over the pacific... and ic flashes... wind is coming in from the NW...

weird is all i can say... good morning... going to rest - hopefully *weary yawn*

sorry, i dont mean to over post on the forum... but, its just really, strange weather, odd...

Large concentration of strikes over the last two hours around the Eastern Bay of Plenty from about Whakatane to Hawai and into the ranges.

great shot that last one you posted spwill!
we had a great display of Cloud to ground lightning over the coastal hills here around 11pm ish
5:20am here and woken by a gale Nwer

I never heard any thunder at all last night. Lots of distant spherics heard on AM radio, but otherwise it was a bust for me.

I'm pleased others had a great night and hope it wasn't a case of me being so bone tired I slept through something great.

We'll have to see what happens today regards convection but the central North Island looks the high risk region for some diurnally driven afternoon thunderstorms/small hail.

some nice CB's around here this morning and beefy showers

Yes, the Cbs are more photogenic today than the previous couple of days.

I call it the Mt Albert look when it looked like that in that suburb all the time in the early 1990s,its in an unstable westerly flow.

The downpour yesterday afternoon followed by that evening storm gave a daily total of 20mm here

yet another juicy thunderstorm oulook by metservice thismorning for today. Will it be 3 thunder days in a row? Had torrential rain two days ago, awesome lightning and updafts yesterday. Hopefully today we can get some good sized hail maybe?

report from Bigbay here at the top of the peninsular of a water spout that came across from Cornwallis at 6:30pm yesterday

whats wrong with the tracker?

A bit cool for thunder today over much of the NI so far with cloud cover, showers, westerlies. Storm on the east side of the Ranges over southern HB currently.

it seems like the Cb's dont have the height that they could have, too. sounding seems to confirm this.

A scattering of low CAPE cb's today producing squally showers for Auckland. Weather too cool across the North Island today to allow thunderstorms to develop. Also a lack of a boundary to push the air up.

Hi all, this thread was an interesting read, as this weather relates very much to what I experienced first hand, in the form of a mini tornado!!! I had to take cover as glass showered an area over 100m x 75m, and smashed house windows, destroyed a solar hot water system and damaged a crop of 5500 hydroponic tomato plants beyond recovery (luckily all was insured!). No one was hurt luckily.

Glass shards also pierced the roof's of 2 utility sheds (made of coloursteel) and the roof of a house. I thought I'd post an album of photos showing some of the damage done. This was in the Drury area. It occurred around 10.30am Monday morning:



About 2 kms down the road is Davies rd, and a property there with modern glasshouses suffered even worse damage:


Insane weather!!!