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I notice the wind direction is switching between NE and SW at home right now, might be something about to blow up out east in a convergence zone...

Multiple thunder claps just to the east of here

Some small thunderstorm cells forming over Ak currently. Thunder heard here in Mt Eden.

South Auckland getting a thunderstorm just now

Pea hail and IC lightning here at Pakuranga..

Thunder heard here from that storm.

Photo of a cell over Manakau Heads earlier

East Auckland cell looking from West Auckland

From the radar it looks like we should have had heavy rain and hail at home. Yet just some moderate rain. Must have been right on the edge

chased in south east auckland what a storm thunder,lightning heavy rain. first good storm since december last year. the thunder draught is over

tornado wrote: ↑Tue 23/04/2019 17:49 chased in south east auckland what a storm thunder,lightning heavy rain. first good storm since december last year. the thunder draught is over

Goood on yer tornado. Glad you enjoyed the show.

yeah finally about time i reackon. the thunder draught could be over. saw waterspouts too. a waterspout outbreak lol

Perfect timing. Just as things were about to kick off, I had to work. I was in Papakura, inside, and had no idea what was happening outside.

Herald has a couple of videos of that hail in Akld's eastern suburbs this arvo…

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti ... d=12224678

well the auckland thunderstorm draught is over.

tornado wrote: ↑Tue 23/04/2019 21:01 well the auckland thunderstorm draught is over.

Lucky people. I think there will be more, as the Auckland area usually gets more thunderstorms because of it's position in certain areas of atmosphere movement in the west to east movement of our weather systems.
The area can be a drawcard.

wow today was the first thunder day since december last year. waterspouts,hail,heavy rain. those cbs looked impressive. the storm At pakuranga produced a rope funnel cloud,heavy rain and hail. so. first thunderstorm day. draught ending.

Nev wrote: ↑Tue 23/04/2019 07:56 Hearing plenty of thunder here atm, with Bliz showing a couple of CG's around the SE of Waiheke.
Heavy 4.5mm, 10 minute downpour around 7am this morning.

did you see the waterspouts?

Those waterspouts were on the north side of Waiheke Island and the photos would have been taken from a vantage point on the Island.

A convergent boundary, possibly a front crossing from the west generated the waterspouts. The surface boundary generates the vorticity that is taken up by convection currents. Sea temperatures in the gulf are 20C, so good for convection.

I joined a couple of photos to show the line yesterday morning, seen from Mt Eden.

A council rain gauge near Waitakere train station recorded 36mm in an hour yesterday afternoon http://aklc.hydrotel.co.nz/hydrotel/cgi ... tchment=28