General August weather

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 04/08/2014 14:30

David wrote:Thunder here! Wasn't expecting that. Sunny in Howick but dark clouds to the west

Hail here earlier also, photo of that Cb cloud.
Auckland webcam http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... d-city.asp

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 04/08/2014 17:23

Had a heavy shower with pea hail in central Auckland 2.30pm.

When I drove through Mt Wellington there was evidence of a decent hail storm there with hail lying about the place. Photo.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 04/08/2014 17:31

Awesome sun set lit mama in that cell to my SSE over Cambridge way.

matttbs · Unread post by **matttbs** » Mon 04/08/2014 17:59

NZstorm wrote:Had a heavy shower with pea hail in central Auckland 2.30pm.

When I drove through Mt Wellington there was evidence of a decent hail storm there with hail lying about the place. Photo.

How much do you think that storm dropped? Looks like a few cm on the ground?

David · Unread post by **David** » Mon 04/08/2014 18:15

Wow at the hail photo. I don't recall ever seeing as much hail as that in Howick!
Today we just had scattered hailstones falling for a couple minutes, then it turned to rain.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 04/08/2014 18:23

Hail Pics here from the NZHerald.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11303724

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Mon 04/08/2014 18:27

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 04/08/2014 19:17

A good fall of hail there, we had pea size hail here for 5 mins this afternoon but nothing like that.

Some nice Cb clouds south of Auckland later this afternoon, I drove south for a photo.

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Mon 04/08/2014 20:07

Gosh, that hail would have fairly roared down!

Manukau heads obs · Mon 04/08/2014 21:47

that sure is alot of hail alright in those photos
there was some hail not far from here I have discovered at around 1pm, was probably the same cell that moved up and onto the city

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 04/08/2014 22:02

I'm seeing posts on Facebook already of snow to 100m in Canterbury and flurries for chch for Thursday night/Friday

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Tue 05/08/2014 05:01

Some impressive rainfall totals from the Gisborne area yesterday.
Metservice says Gisborne Airport had 122mm and Tolaga Bay had 177mm.
Not surprised Civil Defence have become concerned:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/1034758 ... n-Gisborne

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 05/08/2014 06:51

Manukau heads obs wrote:that sure is alot of hail alright in those photos
there was some hail not far from here I have discovered at around 1pm, was probably the same cell that moved up and onto the city

There was some convergence around Ellerslie that made the convection a bit more aggressive there.

This set up was in the model with a pronounced polar vortex at 500mb. But the question mark was whether there would be a trigger given the time of year.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 05/08/2014 07:45

yes, you could see showers were rotating around a center, the ones over Northland...that center being Auckland/Waikato,,with a SE change over the central NI and rain into eastern NI
yes we had a bit of wind covergence here that got it developing...northerly on one side and southerly on the other side (both weak though)

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 05/08/2014 09:32

From what I could see much of the Auckland region stayed dry with most of the showers forming along a weak afternoon convergence line which developed from the Waitakeres to central/east Auckland.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 07/08/2014 06:39

Looking like a fine weekend coming up for Auckland

but cold a maximum on Saturday of about 11C.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 07/08/2014 07:52

Yesterday I got caught in a wild shower. It had winds gusting about 80km I would estimate. I wasn't far from Tims but his station didn't get it.

David · Unread post by **David** » Thu 07/08/2014 11:04

NZstorm wrote:Looking like a fine weekend coming up for Auckland but cold a maximum on Saturday of about 11C.

And maybe a frost on Sunday morning too

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 07/08/2014 13:33

Getting a heavy shower from the west at the moment

einzack · Unread post by **einzack** » Thu 07/08/2014 18:59

Metservice has an overnight low of -6°C for Reefton on Saturday morning. Can't recall seeing anything that low forecast before.
And then there's 4 days of snow next week.
Could be an interesting 7 days.

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Thu 07/08/2014 19:37

Was hail on the forecast today but none of that.. had a few good cracks of thunder (which wasn't in the FC) just before lunchtime.. sleety showers tomorrow?
Have to wait & see on that one..

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Fri 08/08/2014 07:20

Dale wrote:Was hail on the forecast today but none of that.. had a few good cracks of thunder (which wasn't in the FC) just before lunchtime.. sleety showers tomorrow?
Have to wait & see on that one..

MS did have a low risk of T-storms for Buller for Thurs morn and a moderate risk with hail for Westland, so not too far off.

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Fri 08/08/2014 07:31

True that Nev.. beggars can't be choosers I suppose

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 08/08/2014 14:17

Showers here today have been very isolated, cloud/sunshine mix, 8 -15C, mod to fresh SW.

More cold trough activity next week for NZ but at this stage the troughing looks less cold but the precipitation more widespread

Dale · Unread post by **Dale** » Fri 08/08/2014 15:43

More sun than anything today which is nice.. also a lick of snow up on Mt. Davy here so I spose we didn't escape fully

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