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Another report of apparent tornado damage on Saturday evening just north of Kaitaia at about 5:45pm…

'Tornado lifts roof from home' - Northern Advocate

Heaps of snow on the central NI. It is falling very fast. At 8.15 there was no snow on any webcams (hail at desert road summit) and by 8.30 everything was white on all cameras.

I cant see how its 17C on the north shore...how do you have the temperature sensor mounted?

Nev wrote:Another report of apparent tornado damage on Saturday evening just north of Kaitaia at about 5:45pm…

'Tornado lifts roof from home' - Northern Advocate

I suggest that event was straight line winds (squall) with the frontal passage.

Cold 11 degrees in Howick and fairly windy, with gusts 50-60 km/h.

Bean Rock in Auckland's Waitemata gusting to 120 km/h - a little more than at Manukau Heads.

Update: Bean Rock dropped down a little, Manukau Heads now up to 122 km/h, Tiritiri up to 130 km/h.

NZstorm wrote:

Nev wrote:Another report of apparent tornado damage on Saturday evening just north of Kaitaia at about 5:45pm…

'Tornado lifts roof from home' - Northern Advocate

I suggest that event was straight line winds (squall) with the frontal passage.

Yes, I was thinking the same thing.

Interestingly, at about the same time I was watching what resembled a horizontal funnel-cloud between here and the North Shore. It started to drop down, but its tail then to broke up, as did the rest of it shortly after.

Even for September its been appalling,1 sunny day on the 7th two or three partly cloudy days ie 1/2 sunny and rest wet and windy.

Is it snowing in chch? I see it's only 3 degrees with 1.4mm in the last 10 mins going by metservice

matttbs wrote:Is it snowing in chch? I see it's only 3 degrees with 1.4mm in the last 10 mins going by metservice

Not in St Albans - have had hail on & off this morning. Can't see anything on Port Hills (well not on Surgarloaf eastwards anyway), Mt Herbert presumably coated, but obscured by cloud.

matttbs wrote:Is it snowing in chch? I see it's only 3 degrees with 1.4mm in the last 10 mins going by metservice

Nowhere near it. Must be an earlier recording. 8 degrees in town. Its windy and showery, but certainly no snow below 500m

Brief but squally showers with small hail on the western side of Chch are bringing the temps down. Was 4.3C here a short time ago.

Stronger sun this time of year means more variation in temps, ie even in a cold outbreak it gets warmer when the sun comes out than in winter, though temperature drops a lot when a shower passes over.

So where is the station that gives the readings for chch on metservice?

all over here for the wind, eased alot now
105kmh gusts here

At home I see I have had a max avg of 71km/hr and max gust of 84km/hr.

Manukau heads obs wrote:all over here for the wind, eased alot now
105kmh gusts here

Yes, that eased very quickly after that last line of showers went through.
I recorded a max gust of 71 km/h just before midday.

there is a big sea running here on the coast
looks like might be over 5m swell

Missed any storms etc in Canterbury on Saturday. I was with friends over in Murchison too go rafting. W did drive through heavy snow showers on Friday night in the lewis.

matttbs wrote:So where is the station that gives the readings for chch on metservice?

Airport.

And this shows Botanic Gardens temperature and Harewood solar radiation:

Got down to a chilly 2.6C here at 5am

20 degrees in Oamaru already at 9:30am, after yesterdays cold blast? Cripes it must be spring

Yeah tables have turned for sure.. spanker of a day here yesterday, even managed to get a wee bit sunburnt out on the beach with the chainsaw while you lot were skiing to work.. gloomy & overcast now with the threat of that dreaded torrential drizzle.. love the dynamics of kiwi wx

This time in Chch yesterday - 7C. Now 22C.

Huge drop in temp tho with it going from 22-13 in the last two hours.