Where are the gales?

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 25/05/2004 16:16

The spherics will be from the cb activity out to east of Coromandal.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 25/05/2004 17:54

I'm told there was a very active thunderstorm here around 10.30am. Enough to make my cats howl, reset the breadmaker and make the lights flicker.

Cheers,

G

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 25/05/2004 18:26

When the hell is the rain going to stop.Its getting harder here now

Manukau heads obs · Tue 25/05/2004 18:33

13 lightning counts here today...

(it has quite a good range)
yes, the rain radar showed very heavy rain over the helensville area about 10:30....it looked black as from here

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Tue 25/05/2004 22:24

Landed at Narita airport today after a long flight through a major storm. I have lost some of my earlier fascination with such things...

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 25/05/2004 22:37

Landed at Narita airport today after a long flight through a major storm. I have lost some of my earlier fascination with such things...

Now I know why you didn't post yesterday, when there could easily have been snow around Omarama. (Apparently there was snow settling about Burkes Pass and Mt Cook Village, but not thickly enough to disrupt road travel)

Manukau heads obs · Tue 25/05/2004 22:39

When the hell is the rain going to stop.Its getting harder here now

yeah, it was like that today....
there was a clearence line just south of pukekohe all day....
and just when you though that was the last shower, another arm of the spinning cartwheel would come around, and we would get another dose of heavy rain....
but it finally cleared at sunset....

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/05/2004 11:23

tich wrote:Now I know why you didn't post yesterday, when there could easily have been snow around Omarama. (Apparently there was snow settling about Burkes Pass and Mt Cook Village, but not thickly enough to disrupt road travel)

I haven't talked to anybody back there yet, but judging by the weather data, I'd say it's likely.

Hey, I'll say one thing: when the senior flight attendant is strapped into the seat facing you, and she's almost weeping while reciting the Lord's prayer as the airplane does aerobatic stunts, and the lightning is so constant that the cabin is lits up like the inside of a neon tube, it's probably a good sign that the weather's a little inclement.

Never again...I'm swimming home next week.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Wed 26/05/2004 18:18

Around midday there was a very narrow band of building cumulus in a line from Leigh to Great Barrier Island. I'm very curious as to the physics around this very narrow line of cloud... any ideas as to what could trigger such a narrow band of convection? Some kind of convergence? I can see on the weather map a weak front but surely it would have more of an impact?

Cheers,

G

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 26/05/2004 18:52

I'm in Wanaka tonight. Clear and very cold here with a frost not far way.

Saw some great Cb clouds around Auckland yesterday as I flew out.

Drove from Christchurch to Wanaka today . There's good snow cover around Lake Tekapo down to the Town but very little around Omarama.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 26/05/2004 18:57

The line is almost certainly a product of the wind fields out there. The surface/upper flow over the region today was a weak easterly. The remnants of yesterdays trough have hang around just east of Coromandal today .

Had quite a heavy shower this evening around 5.30pm in Ponsonby.
I photographed the glaciating cumulus against the setting sun about 4.45pm. Actually a cb with cloud top around 20,000ft I reckon.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 26/05/2004 19:03

and i'll just add that it was a fine day in AK with 17C, before the late afternoon showers.