Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

[Lawrence]

Dark to the South of here.Few spots of precipitation.Duvet at the ready to throw over the greenhouse if we get reports of large hail.

[darcyplumb]

Dark to the South of here.Few spots of precipitation.Duvet at the ready to throw over the greenhouse if we get reports of large hail.

No hail here however the core appears to be slightly inland from town.

[Lawrence]

Visual on sheets of hail bands to the east and south east.Could be possibly Rolleston, Lincoln area. Just a rumble of thunder and wind slightly picked up here now.

[Razor]

Thunder in Lincoln. No precipitation....yet

[dogmelon]

I can hear distant thunder from honrby. It looks a bit grumpy and high based.

edit : I just saw a cc bolt.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nothing down here except for a hail/graupel shower about an hour ago. Much colder and non-interesting looking cloud.

[JP.]

I can hear distant thunder from honrby. It looks a bit grumpy and high based.

edit : I just saw a cc bolt.

I'm at work in Wigram, sure is getting dark out there. Clouds looking ominous, glad I didn't bike to work today.

Edit: rumbles of thunder and some distant lightning now

[Thunder081]

Looking from Mt Pleasant at 3:33pm

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[moylanr]

10 mins ago from Awatea over bridge looking towards Prebbleton

[Razor]

Plenty of loud rolling thunder and wind for last 30 mins at Lincoln, still no rain

[Lawrence]

Lower-level wind seems to be moving from East to west now, seems more on shore and picked up considerably now, looking weird out towards Banks Peninsular way.

[Razor]

Lower-level wind seems to be moving from East to west now, seems more on shore and picked up considerably now, looking weird out towards Banks Peninsular way.

Sure is a weird shifting wind direction. Sort of thing I'd expect with a much bigger storm?

[Lawrence]

Confirmed lightening detected from 14klm from here.
Edit: Heavy rain started here now, few rumbles of thunder.

[Razor]

Its been strong southerly in at the uni for the last 30 minutes, now clouds are streaming in from the E-NE again. Interesting looking radar now too

[Lawrence]

Lightning seems to be getting closer now, precipitation slightly more turning to hail.

[Nev]

Mod Note: Thought today's Canterbury T-storms could do with its own thread.

[JP.]

Pouring down heavy sheet like rain in Wigram. Winds from the South

[TonyT]

Amberley is about to get dumped upon... Big cell to the west incoming.

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Edit - now steady hail and thunder/lightning overhead.
Edit 2 - a brief period of torrential rain and small hail has eased, and thunder now booming rather than crackling. Looks like Amberley took a direct hit.

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[Richard]

Still blowing a NWer here but the front is charging north

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Good posting there Tony. Go0d that you were on the spot to record it.
Nothing much down here with the southerly Initially looked promising but after the hail/graupel shower on the arrival of the southerly the clagg moved in with a drop in temperature.
Here are some pictures from here prior to the arrival of the front.

[Storm Struck]

The storms seemed to hand off as the front charged north along with the abrupt upper air change, rather than a few storms moving up from Ashburton.
Some brilliant lightning overhead at work and steady rain large drops no hail though.
Managed to get these 3 shots of lightning while standing there for about 10 minutes.
The first one was a big CG that I caught a second fork of.
I did mention on here a few days ago that today might produce storms and I'm glad it pulled off.

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[Richard]

Oh well, missed out again. Maybe some year in the future I might to experience thunder an lightning again without having to travel to them.

[mikestormchaser]

Certainly a good start to the Canterbury season. The last time we had a start like this was in 2013.. where we ended up having one of the best seasons including 3 or 4 supercell severe days in summer.
Interesting to note looking back at the wind flags a keen Easterly ramped up at 3pm when that storm got going over the city today.
I couldn't get out to chase as was working however I did get some shots below. Not the best.

Aaron Wilkinson captured an absolute beauty..one of the best he's got which he sent to a group chat tonight, I'll get him to share on here when he's able

[Thunder]

I'm still chasing if a storm presents itself and it has been a while! Cool chase today, lots of lightning, loud thunder and hail showers. But lightning photography is hard with getting rain drops on the lens in amongst a dozen other issues. But I got one, took this near Ashley, North Canterbury

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