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A perfect morning weather wise. Been out walking and snapping pics again

rain coming in for auckland tonight.

Very little rain at Thornbury. Only 2.5mm over the two days .The low risk of thunderstorms yesterday was just overcast skies and the odd spit of rain= 0.2mm

This system has had surprisingly little lightning with it.

Another sparkling day with Grey Lynn already on 22C. Might head for beach!

cloud building up in auckland

the cloud build ups are looking quite dark as well and tall

The front west of Waikato heading for Waitomo has some lightning on it.

i see that on blitz

Taranaki Airport reporting heavy rain/thunderstorm.

i see on blitz a good storm. when is it aucklands turn for thunderstorm. i thought i heard thunder last night but it was a local fireworks display at waikaraka park speedway

New Plymouth showing 44.2mm in the two hrs up to 2pm MS

metservice is forecasting rain possibly heavy and small hail too. for auckland tommorrow and tuesday too

this front wasnt lightning active at sea but now its heading north it has became lightning active.

Misery around Geraldine after not being too bad up to Timaru, yuck.

tornado wrote: ↑Sun 21/04/2019 15:15 this front wasnt lightning active qt sea but now its heading north it has niw becwme lightning active.

Yes, there seemed to be some lightning activity on the front as it moved across the North Island.
As the surface pressure readings are rather high for a significant event to happen, I didn't expect much although we did get a reasonable amount of rain, here, overnight and this morning as what was compared to that had fallen at the MS Timaru weather site at RPA at Levels.

i really want to hear thunder. the last good storm was 14 december last year lasted a whole night.

tornado wrote: ↑Sun 21/04/2019 18:05 i really want to hear thunder.

I had some recordings of thunder which I recorded in the 1980's on the old cassette tape with a microphone held out the window. When I heard a sferic on the radio, I would release the pause button and record the thunder. Some of the claps or rolls of thunder, I used to play on my old strereo system, out loud, and confuse the neighbours, escpecially on a blue-dome sunny day.
Sadly I've lost those tapes, or probably put them in the rubbish, accidentally of course.

tornado wrote: ↑Sun 21/04/2019 18:05 i really want to hear thunder. the last good sstorm was14 december last year lasted a whole night.

Tomorrow evening as the colder upper airmoves in.


I see Inglewood in Taranaki recorded 92mm today with 24mm in the hour 1pm. (Environment Taranaki)

Cyclone Tracy wrote: ↑Sun 14/04/2019 20:42 The Easter special synoptics are coming together nicely Upper tropospheric cyclonic vortex on EC 00Z run today continues the trend. Cuts off cleanly from the westerly belt at 500 hPa on Easter Sunday morning. Tropical depression remnants to then add an atmospheric river above a developing surface low around Easter Monday from the North. These set ups can escalate quite quickly with the supporting interacting jets. SST’s to add some spice to the mix.

Don't know what you are talking about, but with today's weather, here, it does make sense

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Sun 21/04/2019 18:27 I had some recordings of thunder which I recorded in the 1980's on the old cassette tape with a microphone held out the window. When I heard a sferic on the radio, I would release the pause button and record the thunder. Some of the claps or rolls of thunder, I used to play on my old strereo system, out loud, and confuse the neighbours, escpecially on a blue-dome sunny day.
Sadly I've lost those tapes, or probably put them in the rubbish, accidentally of course.

You may wish to consider downloading a free program called scanner recorder. You can use a microphone on a laptop or PC to record noise. The program has a threshold which is adjustable. It buffers a few moments sounds. If it exceeds the set threshold it starts from a moment before it exceeds the threshold. It also creates log showing real time of the recording versus the time on the recorded track. Using an external Vogad (Voice Operated Gain Adjustment Device) microphone would on it would give great results during a thunderstorm.

rain and high winds in auckqnd. what a storm

Rainfall for Taranaki yesterday. 108mm at New Plymouth is significant. Bay of Plenty now in line for a drenching later today.

Chart for northern Taranaki

Lucky buggers getting a decent fall


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Only 3mm here so far. Seems to have mostly stayed at sea

Had a nice 20.5mm here this morning, clearing now…