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Dark clouds off Wellington's South Coast & Cook Strait and thunder has been reported there and what it looks like from Levin

Nice tornado footage on 1 news. Very dusty funnel. Watch it on 1+1 at 7PM.

In the central and western part of the city the sun has been out most of the day despite some large cloud masses, but now looking ominous to the east and south.

Another brief wintry shower has just moved through, no thunder sound though.
Some foaters

A very blustery southerly here(Thornbury) all day .Winds averaging 25 knots .Temps around 8 C with frequent showers , some with small hail .Section starting to look bedraggled with twigs and leaves strewn everywhere .One tree by my kitchen has taken a lean and will have to removed tomorrow as the branches are hitting my kitchen windows . A day to sit inside and watch DVD's

Main rain band tonight looks to be moving ashore between Timaru and Ashburton. Will be interesting to see how far north it gets. Models have been chopping and changing all day regarding who gets the rain. Something tells me its a Christchurch south event but who knows. waiting game now!

snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Mon 19/11/2018 20:29 Main rain band tonight looks to be moving ashore between Timaru and Ashburton. Will be interesting to see how far north it gets. Models have been chopping and changing all day regarding who gets the rain. Something tells me its a Christchurch south event but who knows. waiting game now!

Yes looking like a very wet night here radar looking impressive

Dean. wrote: ↑Mon 19/11/2018 20:32

snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Mon 19/11/2018 20:29 Main rain band tonight looks to be moving ashore between Timaru and Ashburton. Will be interesting to see how far north it gets. Models have been chopping and changing all day regarding who gets the rain. Something tells me its a Christchurch south event but who knows. waiting game now!

Yes looking like a very wet night here radar looking impressive

100mm not out of the question over the next 24 hours for you Dean.

GFS not predicting much rain at all for Christchurch tonight and tomorrow, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get a substantial amount, looking at the way that band is moving currently.

That snow around Queenstown this morning was convective snow (cb's). Very unusual for November.
I guess we can call this El Nino weather?

snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Mon 19/11/2018 20:43 GFS not predicting much rain at all for Christchurch tonight and tomorrow, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get a substantial amount, looking at the way that band is moving currently.

Based on the system so far I'm not expecting anything out of the ordinary up here in the CHCH, and neither is metservice

Starry clear night here in Rangiora, no wind or rain.

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Sunny cold morning in Auckland but weak cb about. Fingers crossed for something local to develop today.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a waterspout or two reported tomorrow from upper NI, flow will be more northerly.

Looks like a heck of s snowfall at Castle Hill overnight!

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Amazing for this time of year, but not unheard of. In 87 when i left school i worked on a farm on the inland road to Kaikoura, they had 20cm on Christmas eve a year or two earlier

Out to sea west of Levin currently

Hate to bag on metservice all the time, but surely they could muster the resources to send a team out to do a survey of that tornadoes path... Instead they ask on Facebook if any of there followers could do it instead there have been a good number of tornadoes in the last couple of years and you would think they'd be trying to learn as much as possible

Interesting looking rain band coming ashore

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Thunder

Yes, first rumble of the day.

Rogue wrote: ↑Tue 20/11/2018 10:02 Hate to bag on metservice all the time, but surely they could muster the resources to send a team out to do a survey of that tornadoes path... Instead they ask on Facebook if any of there followers could do it instead there have been a good number of tornadoes in the last couple of years and you would think they'd be trying to learn as much as possible

MS are not asking the public to go out and survey the tornado's path. What they are asking for is footage or photos of damage, with drone footage being particularly useful, so that they can assess the tornado's strength. The problem is that most of the damage, like downed trees, etc, usually gets cleaned up pretty quickly.

RODALCO wrote: ↑Mon 19/11/2018 18:15 Nice tornado footage on 1 news. Very dusty funnel. Watch it on 1+1 at 7PM.

For those that missed it:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zea ... -machinery
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zea ... canterbury


SunLive referring to it as a 'micro-tornado/dust devil'…
https://sunlive.co.nz/news/193619-micro ... -hard.html

Some hail here, up to 7mm size.

Heard some thunder out in the gulf just now. From the radar looks like South Auckland and North Waikato would be the spot to see something interesting next few hours

Decent moisture plumes over the Tasman, West and NW of Auckland on the 11am water vapour image. Radar might look quite busy in a couple of hours.