Who are you guys?

[DT-NZ]

Hi - been lurking for a while and decided to get involved. I have a passion for weather - particularly bad weather

Moorf

Welcome Moorf,

Look forward to hearing your weather report's from your region/area, take care.

[MoorfNZ]

Hi !

[Andrew Massie]

Thanks tgsnoopy - it does remind me of home, particularly since home was rural central Scotland (Perthshire!).

Hang on... you're not a pom if you're scottish!

From: http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Offensi ... ality.html

"Pom or whinging pom, Used mainly in Australia and usually against the English, it it is possibly a reference to the pomegranite -like features of florid face"

[MoorfNZ]

Ohhh, and I sooo wanted it to be "Prisoner of Mother England" (POME)!

Anyway, whilst I lived in Scotland I was born in England but have lived around the world since then so if I had to class myself as anything it would be British (or tech-nomad but they didn't have a tick-box for that on the immigration forms )

[Andrew Massie]

Ohhh, and I sooo wanted it to be "Prisoner of Mother England" (POME)!

Anyway, whilst I lived in Scotland I was born in England but have lived around the world since then so if I had to class myself as anything it would be British (or tech-nomad but they didn't have a tick-box for that on the immigration forms )

Fair enough, you can be a Pom then!

[MoorfNZ]

[burgla]

Hi guys - Bob from CHCH - ever since I was a kid on a farm in Northland, I have been interested in the weather - looking at getting a weather station to hook up to my pc soon.

Edit :
now have a Weather Station up & running & have shifted to Blenheim away from the Canterbury Earthquakes !

http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/blenheimweather/

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstat ... =IMARLBOR3

[degreed]

Hi All - David from Cambridge. I mostly lurk on this forum, although have burst in to print on a couple of occasions...

Been interested in the weather most of my life, but being born and bred in the Waikato, have been sheltered from most extreme events. Do remember as a kid waking up to snow when living at Hinuera (extremely rare), but vividly remember the frosts that we used to get there... The frosts from a couple of weeks ago were a sharp reminder, although fortunately did not have to worry about frozen waterpipes like we did then... Used to love watching the summer lightning at night when later living at in the hills of Maungatautari (just out of Cambridge).

Have had my weather station running for about two years, but did have a rain gauge before that which was OK, until the neighbours kids filled it with sand...

I enjoy the erudite comments on this forum, as well as the banter. It also helps with a small weekend, weather dependent business that my mate and I run on the weekends. Having said that today's weather was extremely frustrating - looked like rain, so called the job off - then looked settled enough, so back on again, only for the rain to start one hour after the job started - Like my dad's hay mower and my wife's laundry - instant rainmaker...

Also interested in classic english cars (I drive a Triumph Stag) and walking

[Dale]

Spose I should really put a few words in here, have been posting long enough

Hi from Dale in Paerata.. kiwi born, Aussie raised for 30 or so years before doing a reverse dive & coming back home on xmas day 07, as a present for the lovely lady im now married to and known for many years via the internet. Born in Christchurch with roots in Sumner, Scarborough, Beckenham, New Brighton, Woolston & Heathcote, the next 3 decades spent in South Australia, NT (Alice Springs), a stint in Melbourne then finally onto Queensland (Jimboomba, midway between Brisbane & the Gold Coast) where my passion for weather really took a turn for the better. Enter the monster 40 000 + ft supercells which frequent the area. Am a registered spotter and field observer with the BoM over there & have been for many years. Some of the most memorable moments from the top f my head include being bombarded with cricket ball sized hail whilst out on a chase one day, tree branch damage to car(s), very close lightning strikes including a couple that have taken me off my feet.. probably explains my silly posts at times

Interests are obviously stormchasing, weather in general, atmospheric modeling and forecasting, trains (the bigger the better) and aviation (again, big is good) im a boilermaker by trade & have worked on numerous high rise projects during my time in aussie so on the self climbing tower cranes you get some good views of your surrounds which puts me onto another passion, photography in general.

The biggest interests are however my 3 boys & the wifey.. and the dozen indian ringneck parrots we have on the avairys here..

Heaps more to tell but I can see you yawning already so will leave it at this

[tgsnoopy]

Good stuff Dale, I have a mate who moved to Jimboomba (John or sometimes Lesle Macdonald). He gave up his long term career of panelbeating/spraypainting cause he got sick of repairing the hail damage. Impressive photo's I'm told. Tried to catch up with him last time I was over on the Gold Coast but ran out of time. Still known to yarn via Skype frequently. Man the thuderstorms & hail sound impressive. This year we both have webcams and man I'm looking forward to the impending season.

[Dale]

Why does it sound like the kiwis that bought the acerage 2 doors over from me just before I came back home.. does Nash Road ring a bell to them?

If so. bloody small world lol.

[tgsnoopy]

Na, I think he lives in Cedar Grove from memory.

It woulda been hard case but.

[Dale]

Ah Cedar Grove.. barely 10 mins from where I lived. Also place of one of the close encounters of a lightning kind.
Cool as, still a small world

[Richard]

Hi Richard from Medbury 100 kms north of Christchurch in the Amuri basin ,my interest in every thing weather started from very young,like every one else here it seems i love storms,unfortunately where i live we only see 2-3 per year.
I dont have a state of the art weather station at this stage but would like one day to have an officially recognised set up, but in the mean time i have my temperature/rain gauge set up so as to record as near to accurate as possible.Where myself and my family of five live is at 175 m above sea level, 70 km inland and with three lines of rangers between here and the sea,this gives us a climate of hard frosts in winter and a average summer max of 30c.I grew up as a kid in Rangiora north of CHCH, there storms would develop between the west and south only and move through quickly but the Amuri area storms can develop from the north east right around to the south.Most storms that do develop in this area so often dont move in any direction and can die over the same spot where it developed.

I grow heirloom vegetable seed which i sell ,i'm also a company director involved redesigning hand shears soon to be on the market

[Tahii]

1) Whats your real name:- Mike

2) How old are you:- 25

3) Which city are you from:- Invercargill

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Yes

5) What do you do for a crust:- I'm an Upper Air Observer for 45S Weather Services. I do daily climate obs for NIWA, and release and track weather balloons for the Metservice, out of the Weather Observatory at Invercargill Airport.

6) Hobbies:- Photography, music, computers, astronomy, staring at the clouds...

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Since Cyclone Bola hit.

8} What got you interested:- as above, but also when I worked in Winton, I used to help out doing the NIWA daily obs there, and that got me looking up a bit more. Also, my astronomy got me into weather a bit more.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Anything and everything, although I especially like sitting and watching something roll in on the weather radar, then being able to go outside and see it happen in real life.

[DT-NZ]

1) Whats your real name:- Mike

2) How old are you:- 25

3) Which city are you from:- Invercargill

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Yes

5) What do you do for a crust:- I'm an Upper Air Observer for 45S Weather Services. I do daily climate obs for NIWA, and release and track weather balloons for the Metservice, out of the Weather Observatory at Invercargill Airport.

6) Hobbies:- Photography, music, computers, astronomy, staring at the clouds...

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Since Cyclone Bola hit.

8} What got you interested:- as above, but also when I worked in Winton, I used to help out doing the NIWA daily obs there, and that got me looking up a bit more. Also, my astronomy got me into weather a bit more.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Anything and everything, although I especially like sitting and watching something roll in on the weather radar, then being able to go outside and see it happen in real life.

Hi Mike

Welcome to NZWF - looking forward to hearing reports from your part of the country... take care.

[Richard]

hello Mike,
Sounds like you are a yet another real weather nut........................on ya

[metmum]

1) Whats your real name:- I'll keep that for PM's if you don't mind

2) How old are you:- 32

3) Which city are you from:- Born in Oxford, UK but have moved around UK a bit....also Wales, Auckland and now Kirwee, Canterbury.

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- PR (yes I'm another pom)

5) What do you do for a crust:- I'm a busy Super-mum to 3 little monkeys....shame I don't get paid or I'd be rich

6) Hobbies:- Being an eternal student, reading, baking bread, tramping, knitting, gardening when I have a garden, getting more interested in weather and astronomy these days.

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Many years.

8} What got you interested:- I studied Geography at Uni.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Unusual weather patterns, storms.....because it's so different everywhere I've lived.

[DT-NZ]

Hi metmum,

Welcome to NZWF it was great to read your reports from your area - really appreciated reading them - take care.

[MoorfNZ]

Ohhhh, didn't realise there was a formality behind intro's... here goes...

1) Whats your real name:- Helen

2) How old are you:- *cough* 41 *cough*

3) Which city are you from:- All over! Currently living in Waddington, nr Sheffield, Canterbury, NZ but originally from UK.

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Permanent resident, from the UK, been here 5 yrs

5) What do you do for a crust:- Freelance writer (e-business/e-marketing) background in marketing

6) Hobbies:- Writing, gardening, travel, history, WEATHER

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- Since I was a kid.. always loved thunderstorms.

8. What got you interested:- Just watching the weather in various places around the world... lived in Malaysia for a while and the TS there blew my mind.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Mostly bad weather, cloud formations and, of course, thunder storms. Would love to experience storm chasing in the States stalking tornadoes etc.

10) What is it that you like about this forum:- Love that I can talk about the weather without feeling like a weirdo, love learning from others who are far more knowledgeable than I and the reports from folks all across the country.

[arthurhh]

Well I am not a newbie.

Nor Am I Nice (or so it seems)

Age Over 50

Known to a few people on here (you can run but you cant hide) Member and founder of the Tokoroa Weather group along With TokWW

IT is my function in life at the moment.

Weather is not my be all and end all, but data presentation is!

Now what else to say except see me here tokoroa.dyndns.org

Who owns this forum, and since i havnt heard Foggy around for a while who are the admins?

Cheers

Arthur hH

[Willoughby]

I'm here. I lurk around this time of night and always keep my eye on what's happening back home!

[arthurhh]

1) Whats your real name:- Arthur H Hiscock

2) How old are you:- If I tell you I have to Kill You

3) Which city are you from:- Tokoroa

4) Are you a resident in NZ:- Yes

5) What do you do for a crust:- It Engineer/Manager for a large manufacturing company

6) Hobbies:- Photography, Computers, Weather data presentation

7) How long have you been interested in the weather:- As a farmers son always

8} What got you interested:- See above

9) What aspect of the weather interests you:- Not the weather systems as such but the technology of gathering the data and presenting it.

http://tokoroaweatherlive.net

[burgla]

1) Whats your real name: Bob

2) How old are you: 56

3) Which city are you from: Blenheim , Marlborough

4) Are you a resident in NZ: Yes, born in Motueka, left at 4 for Waikato,( 3yrs) then Kaiwaka(Northland) for 8 years, followed by Waiuku for 4 years, & had lived in Christchurch for 38 years - now relocated to Blenheim Marlborough, to get away from the Canterbury Earthquakes !

5) What do you do for a crust: Have been in transport all my life, as driver , Owner driver , Inter-Island Despatcher for Halls Refrigerated , & currently manage a coolstore

6) Hobbies: Weather, GPS , Good food & wine , rugby, & car racing ( have driven transporter for Kayne Scott)

7) How long have you been interested in the weather: From days on the farm in Kaiwaka, & as a Surfie & paid Surf Lifesaver

What got you interested: Same as above.

9) What aspect of the weather interests you: - all facets especially accurate recording

10) What is it that you like about this forum: Most things, especially following weather events, like we had in Canterbury last week !! ( & now Blenheim weather characteristics)

[Richard]

Hello Bob