Another bout of rain for the north

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Thu 05/08/2004 12:28

Highest dewpoint we've had for a while in Chch today, 9 degrees, air temp around 11 degrees. As at chch airport: 1200 (noon).

A temp around 15 plus a southerly and we would have a thunderstorm!:D

Be sure to yell out Brian if something hits!

Manukau heads obs · Thu 05/08/2004 14:36

the rain radar can be misleading....we are in the clouds here now...
there was rain, but only another 2mm...so it weakened somewhat (as I hinted it might)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 05/08/2004 16:42

This rain has been quite showery . I was in the city early afternoon and they had quite a good downpour, however not too much rain fell around here. I live near the Mt Eden , Epsom border about 4 km from downtown.

Stoped raining now but the weather Radar shows more showery rain out to our west.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 05/08/2004 18:22

getting lightning counts here now....might be able to see it now that its dark

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 05/08/2004 20:33

I see Epsom, close to me has had nearly 40mm but that has fallen over a 30hr period .Still raining here.

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Thu 05/08/2004 21:51

21:30Hrs, very distant lightning to my S. Probably Brynderwyns area. Infreq. SFX on the radio at about 1 per 3min - weak.

Had some good wind up here today Max recorded was 48km/Hr @ 10:45, with a sustained 30-odd km for most of the day, calming down now with clear skies.

Gotta go - want to get the 'scope out before the moon comes up

Manukau heads obs · Thu 05/08/2004 22:14

http://latinum.co.nz/weather/Epsom.htm

your right,,,,2 x what grey lyn has had
only 15mm here

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 05/08/2004 23:14

...nothing here

JohnGaul
NZTS

...but I'm in Christchurch where there the weather is boring

365 day of the

year

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 05/08/2004 23:37

Actually its just started to rain here in CHCH!

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Thu 05/08/2004 23:44

Same here Burrows! Look at new thread!

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Fri 06/08/2004 00:18

Att. North Islanders, hopefully some storms to wake you guys up in the early hours of the morning!

Steven W. The other day you wrote this:

The sounding is less useful in this instance, satellite imagery will tell the story.

Are you meaning that it was blatantly obvious that it was going to be unstabel and all one needed to do was to look at the sat pic as to know where storms were going to be? If so, cool

Manukau heads obs · Fri 06/08/2004 05:53

can see a nice CB line out to my west now, in the moon light (its 5:50am)
top all leaning over from the north and all
ps, i see te puke, BOP, ended up with about 30mm as well...they will be sighing a sigh of relief in the BOP it was not as bad as forecasted

Manukau heads obs · Fri 06/08/2004 07:59

a cb to the south of me this morning
this thing is huge!

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Fri 06/08/2004 08:18

Nice pic MHO

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 06/08/2004 17:48

A day of sunshine and showers for Auckland with a few cb's about
(tops 8000m).

Isolated thunderstorms/hail possible overnight/tomorrow.

CbFan · Unread post by **CbFan** » Fri 06/08/2004 18:58

Quiet day up here too - lots of towers trying, but blowing out into weak, feathery anvils. This one was the last gasp of the day. 1700Hrs, just S of Kerikeri.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 06/08/2004 19:18

the best of them are going into the waikato
there was more great looking ones to the south at sunset....but i didnt have the camera

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 06/08/2004 19:25

Yes, a few solid looking cb's around today, particularly out to S/SE.
I didn't have my digital camera with me. Reminds me of some of the clouds we used to get in past winters. This year has been relatively stable.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Fri 06/08/2004 19:39

Came back from Wellington last night, was kind of hoping to get to see some of the front, but mostly a couple of flatish layers with some lumpy cu here and there. I suspect the other people on the flight - mostly grey / black suits - thought I was strange looking out the window the whole flight.

Cheers,

G

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Fri 06/08/2004 20:20

Go for it Steven W! and Pete, and other upper North Island people!

There looked to be a bit of thunder sometime during the past 24 hours on the Coromandle Peninsula, also a bit in Hamilton during midday or there abouts, and to the West of Hamilton on the coast (during last night or there abouts). I thought there might be a bit more action about but it doesn't looked to of been so.

But yeah, hopefully some lightning for you guys during the next couple of days! It will be good as its the weekend, people can get out and about

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Fri 06/08/2004 20:31

We may not had the lightening or the hail this year but the winter is too long and ugly and still 3 months yet to go

Remember the lousy February,The cool March The gales that went for over a month from late May till late June

NZstorm wrote:Yes, a few solid looking cb's around today, particularly out to S/SE.
I didn't have my digital camera with me. Reminds me of some of the clouds we used to get in past winters. This year has been relatively stable.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 06/08/2004 23:34

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Go for it Steven W! and Pete, and other upper North Island people!

There looked to be a bit of thunder sometime during the past 24 hours on the Coromandle Peninsula, also a bit in Hamilton during midday or there abouts, and to the West of Hamilton on the coast (during last night or there abouts). I thought there might be a bit more action about but it doesn't looked to of been so.

But yeah, hopefully some lightning for you guys during the next couple of days! It will be good as its the weekend, people can get out and about

Nope, no thunder today, just showery westerlies...

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Sat 07/08/2004 01:35

Hmm, oh well. I looked at the data on the Metstrikeweb map and saw strikes close to Hamilton (it looks like it anyway).

See below, strikes in black boxed area near Hamilton occured yesterday during the morning sometime.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 07/08/2004 07:45

Thanks for the upto date lightning info Aaron.

That storm looked to have been north of Hamilton. I think you need to be within about 10km of a thunderstorm to be aware of it.

That particular storm is interesting as it is likely to have been triggered by solar heating of land, in August!. I saw that cb building up, about 12.15pm, out to the SE of Auckland.

Air is still unstable looking today, so slight chance of thunder still.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 07/08/2004 11:11

Flew down to Queenstown yesterday morning and could see some thundery Cbs from the aircraft just out of Auckland.
Arrived to rain here and despite it being 3c in town the fresh snow level was up over 1500m. My flight was about the last able to land for the day due to low cloud.
Still overcaste here with some clearing light rain.