Easterlies

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Tue 06/02/2007 21:45

Not much happening here. Light rain, couple of thunderclaps and that was about it.

Maybe it'll fire up later on?

Manukau heads obs · Tue 06/02/2007 21:58

things are a happening alright....cloud bands converging onto the auckland area...rain is coming

you could see the cb tops out to the east just on dark

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Tue 06/02/2007 22:00

could you see any of the lightning from over barrier way that the detectors were picking up as quite strong?

Manukau heads obs · Tue 06/02/2007 22:09

the strikes to my NW are plotting to close on my boltec

hey, my last hour video shows up the CB to the north of auckland suddenly appearing as the clouds cleared at dusk:
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... rvideo.htm

you will have to be quick, otherwise it will get updated

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 06/02/2007 22:46

Showery through Waikato now. The current Met Service forecast for Waikato is wrong.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 06/02/2007 22:49

Yes spwill! I got hammered on the walk home by heavy rain!! Great stuff!

Man that stuff sure has convected well over the Waikato with that moist BoP infeed.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 06/02/2007 22:57

Some lightning strikes in the Waikato as well.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 06/02/2007 23:10

Central Northland's getting hammered by the looks!... up to 28 lightning strikes a minute from that area!

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 07/02/2007 00:07

How far south will this humid air travel? looks to be about 3 lows lined up to the north at the moment a chasers dream for you guys

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Inland areas of the SI could see isolated afternoon showers tomorrow possibly more likly the odd one or two thundery around Richmond ranges, Marlborough.
Cheers
Jason.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 07/02/2007 00:33

Ooo lightning over hamilton!! Am doing my best to capture some!

26.2mm so far today since 9am!

Edit: It put on a good show tonight.. just way too few between.. the lightning always struck when I was just checking the nexstorm. Murphy's law I guess!

On the subject of bolteks.. have any of you Cantabs checked out the new boltek from Burwood?
http://www.zl3gp.co.nz/lightningwx.php

Too bad it's not on the West Coast somewhere.. where there are actually storms. =/ Ahh well.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 06:44

yes, amazing how quickly the rain moved into the waikato...just to the south of auckland
but we got a lick of very heavy rain here just after midnight...16mm, max 8m/minute (that makes it the heaviest rain I have recorded)

looks showers in the hauraki gulf to move through now
and a new frontal line is bearing down from the north too....

alot of rain out to sea off northland and here overnight....

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 07/02/2007 06:52

Looks like Raglan, Pirongia and Kawhia got drowned. Police issued and advisory at 5am for people to stay away. 4WD only access due to slips and flooding.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 07/02/2007 07:29

The observed lifted index at Whenuapai last night was -3.5, CAPE 912.
Thats good instability.

We only got 1.6mm here though.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 07:56

photo of CB top to my SW...showing a nice hook on the rain radar at the moment

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 07/02/2007 08:46

Just a few breif showers here overnight.

Can see that Cb line to the NW, runs through southern Northland and out to sea, photo below shows part of it.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 07/02/2007 09:10

i see there are strikes from this too at the moment.

the 7am radar shows a very distinct band, but it is slow moving, and with the weakening of the trough thats feeding all this it reduces any risk of T/S

i see after the weekend we should get back to sw patterns again

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 09:38

reports of dargaville getting over 75mm last night

who says its going to weaken?
alot of moisture still to feed in from the east
a shallow low can still fire up big CB lines

but once that southerly front moves up it will shunt things off to the east i guess....and it roll over the top of us

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 07/02/2007 10:27

i heard it from Ricky this morning on the radio, he reckons that the trough will weaken throughout the day

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 11:30

have a CB tower just gone up off the coast here
towering cumulus line around

still unstable, and more rain heading our way, just coming into the rain radar now, north of coromandel

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 07/02/2007 11:47

but we got a lick of very heavy rain here just after midnight...16mm, max 8m/minute (that makes it the heaviest rain I have recorded)

Crikey!!

Might be a hot one tomorrow with a dry east southeast change on the back of the clearing low.

Roll on some further convection today.. central-lower areas should get a beating.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 07/02/2007 11:55

jeez auckland has been lame with t/s over the last few months. I see we may miss out again!

maybe this is punishment for taking too much of NZer's tax to build our roadways!!

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 12:05

heavy showers developing explosively just to the SW of me....on a wind direction convergence line...

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 12:41

CB going up over Piha area now....these things are going up real fast once they get going!

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 07/02/2007 12:43

you wouldn't know it here in the CBD.....muggy as and warm, no sign of showers from here yet

Manukau heads obs · Wed 07/02/2007 12:57

a picy to show ya...one turret has glaciated now
sort of clouds you would see in the tropics i guess