Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Chris W
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Hail over Herbert and Bradley
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Darkening overhead. Cold wind now as well.

Edit - hail here now
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Nice photo from above. Some photos from here.
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Chris W
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Suddenly a lot of white on the radar, heading for the city. Severe storm getting organised?
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dogmelon
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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It looks threatening overhead in Avonhead.
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einzack
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Constant thunder and lightning approaching Rolleston.

Edit: followed by heavy rain and hail. Kids loving it.
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Chris W
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Thunder booming again, from that incoming storm. This is turning out to be a heck of a drought-breaker of a day!
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Karliosis
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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One close strike here in Somerfield, otherwise a fairly quiet storm here. No hail, heavy-ish rain. Good for the garden :)
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mikechamble
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Same in Parklands. Saw some flashes in the distance but all it was here was rain and hail.
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tich
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Just a spell of heavy rain, with a bit of hail in St Albans, along with gusty winds and a few flashes of lightning.
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Powermad
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Chased today in touch with Mike and Aaron, here's the best I got.. and here's a timelapse of thunderstorm corner creating storm #1 of 2 today: https://youtu.be/whE3slI7ywA
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Nice one there, Andrew. It was probably the only rumble of thunder I heard today which came from that direction?
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mikestormchaser
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Very successful chase day, been out since 1 30pm. Caught these beauty photos from the first initial storms from Geraldine/ timar area..then travelled back north and inland from ashburton where more storms developed off mt peel.. chased it all the way north into Christchurch. Some good CGs along the way! The hail would of been 10mm so quite small for a day like today. Celebration drink tonight for good successful day.

Last two photos are just nice cumulus forms after a great days chasing!
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Powermad
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Sat 05/12/2020 19:52 Nice one there, Andrew. It was probably the only rumble of thunder I heard today which came from that direction?
Oh no, mate, it went off!!!
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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Another picture from today
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einzack
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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A few pics nabbed from FB of yesterdays storm. I thought there'd be more pics floating around to be honest cause it was quite impressive out here.
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Dean.
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Re: Thunderstorms Eastern SI 5/12/20

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The Canterbury high country stayed fine throughout the event just as models and Metservice predicted....Some nice CBs observed from Lake Heron towards the plains
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