Lightning photo's

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 24/08/2005 21:59

Took some Lightning photo's this Evening from Mt Eden.

Storm was over Waikato.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:07

Ahh ha! there we go. Great Shot Spwill!!! The evening skew-t proves it's worth. Here's the sat, is that where the storm is? Almost Waikato looking.

Edit: woops, you did mention the waikato, great shot once again! Any others?

Edit again: Hopefully Foggy is out there doing thunderstormy stuff!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:14

Well done Aaron on your prediction.

Lots of lightning from this storm, here's another photo.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:16

One AWESOME photo!!!

Your's and that one by AJ share best so far this year!

Yes a fantastic distant lightning show out there over near Hauraki plains, eastern Waikato tonight, lots of sferics popping away.. reminds me a lot of the March thunderstorm over Matamata, distant and pretty!

Please post a high-res version, stick it on my wallpaper

What was the exact time spwill?

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:18

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:
Edit again: Hopefully Foggy is out there doing thunderstormy stuff!

I wish! too young and no car yet! lol
Just got my avanti stormchaser racing down Hillcrest

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:22

A darker photo but shows Cg lightning out to the right.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:24

Well not neccaserily driving a car, just being out there looking at the storm from your house etc. And it looks as if you've done that so well done, I would be doing the same. Yeah, that pic is definately great. Of gargantuan greatness!, there's that word...it must be good.

Thanks Spwill, hopefully there's some more stuff tonight or tomorrow. I got a pic like that (sort of) on the 23rd April, I'll see if I can find it. It's sort of annoying because if you don't know where the lightning is going to strike so you keep it at a wide angle. I did when getting the lightning below, once we had narowed down where the lightning was coming from we had to move on because the gust front caught up with us.

Cheers

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 24/08/2005 22:27

...why does Auckland always get the lion's share

Grrrrrr

JohnGaul
NZTS

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:30

Looks very american which is awesome!

Report from Thames:

the sky just opened up....it is snow white outdoors, hail about 3" thick for as far as I can see...the place is totally white, my brick decks, the driveway & the carsheds are all white...the poor animals

Awesome!

I was actually doing some laser zone when things started to pick up

I was only expecting thunderstorms from middnight atleast.. with showers moving in from the tasman I guess this was very very convective.. Waikato convection at it's best???

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:36

NZ's storm city, you said it Foggy.

More moisture? better convergence? Colder upper atmorphere? something like that. That would be a great storm to chase, yes Foggy, very american indeed.

Cheers

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:39

Lots of lightning visible to the North of Tauranga earlier, but it was very distant.... Why not here!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:43

The rest of my Lightning photo's are a bit dark like my last one so I wont post any more.

Foggy you must have had a better view of this Storm from your place.
Looks like some late day heat convection, noticed some Cu towers and Cb going up near sunset.

Nice photo there Aaron.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:48

spwill wrote: Foggy you must have had a better view of this Storm from your place.
Looks like some late day heat convection, noticed some Cu towers and Cb going up near sunset.

Yes we did... But Hauraki is slightly closer to Auckland than Hamilton, right? Can't take any lightning photos with my camera, need to upgrade sometime. Still doesn't help when the neighbours build a great garage infront of our northerly view

I couldn't have got a photo like that from Hamilton with any camera.. Looks like Aucklanders had the best vantage point for this storm...

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 24/08/2005 22:57

Sorry, report quoted coming from Hauraki, not Thames.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Wed 24/08/2005 23:08

Sweet Spwill Sweet.

Gutted that I'm here but it's great that others get to see it

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 24/08/2005 23:14

Gutted that I'm here but it's great that others get to see it

Storm was heading your way phil.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 24/08/2005 23:16

Metstrikeweb not showing any strikes? sometihng must be down somewhere.

Spwill's photo shows up nicely on my CRT monitor and my LCD. My one shows up better on my LCD, you can see more stuff. On my CRT alot of the detail is just black? Seems the LCD's are better.

Cheers

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 24/08/2005 23:38

Fujita Phil wrote:Sweet Spwill Sweet.

Gutted that I'm here but it's great that others get to see it

I would agree with you on that Phil

WHY ???

etc., etc., etc ......

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 25/08/2005 08:55

Well I missed the lightning show last night. An isolated storm that Met Service didn't predict and I certainly didn't expect. But looking back there was signs of instability yesterday afternoon with a couple of heavy showers/glaciated tops around Auckland.

Another case of a summer-like heat storm over Waikato in the month of August. There was a similar heat storm back in 2003 in August, well documented on this forum.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 25/08/2005 12:36

MetService didnt forecast it, GFS forecasted quite a bit of instability 24 hours out, and MetService didn't even nowcast!

Anyway... today!

Towering cumulus in all directions... GROWING NICELY

Cb has already developed 80km or near SE of Hamilton, got pics here but no USB cable!!

GFS forecasted possible storms over the Waikato, yesterday. MetService dry weather.

Daytime heating is now starting to play a roll in afternoon convection forming over land areas.

Over Northland and perhaps down into the Auckland area, weakly convergent southeast winds together with afternoon temperatures reaching the upper teens,lead to a moderate risk of showers and a few thunderstorms forming along the convergence line. These will dissipate towards evening. Also, thunderstorms may produce rainfall intensities of 5-15mm/hr, due to their relatively slow motion from the southeast.

Over the Waikato and Bay of Plenty, there is a low risk of a few thunderstorms this afternoon, but there may be a lack of wind convergence to trigger them. In Bay of Plenty,this will rely on a weak sea breeze developing near the coast.

Yes NZstorm I remember the August '03 hailstorm, light SE winds brought warm temps (18c+) in the region and then convective hail and lightning

16c, light southerly, partly cloudy with T/Cu

Goodbye winter!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 25/08/2005 13:22

Cumulus turning to large Cb now, northwest especially, north and south too.

Strikes being picked up now...

From my view, Auckland is underneath one too?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 25/08/2005 13:53

Some clouds going up in the same location as last nights storm.[/quote]

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 25/08/2005 14:00

Cb looks very wide from here to the north now and still growing!
Pics tonight.
MetService just updated their forecasts, hail for Auckland.

Cb to the south still growing too, Cb to the east is decreasing in size.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 25/08/2005 14:05

Some bigger stronger looking cb's in the direction of Coromandal ranges.
Closer to Auckland looks to be weaker cb/turkey tower type cloud. The type of sky you would expect to see in summer.

Midday sounding had the 500mb temp at -25C.

Over Northland and down through Auckland to eastern Waikato and western Bay of Plenty, scattered thunderstorms are developing and are expected to last through to late afternoon or early evening. These storms are slow moving and rainfall rates could range from 10 to 20mm/hr and, they are accompanied by hail expected to be in the 10 to 20mm size range.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 25/08/2005 14:13

There is a big cu congestus now, in the direction of Pukekohe.