Check-In from Northland
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Check-In from Northland
Well, what an interesting morning it's been up here.
We had really heavy rain from about 2am in Kerikeri, and as I rolled over and opened my eyes at 6.30am this morning, I managed to catch the most amazing forked lighting i'd ever seen.. All pinks and purples.. The noise shook the whole house, all the dogs barked, my cat put holes in my leg from being so scared.. Then after that there was nothing for another 20 mins, till a nice flash of sheet lightning and a roll of thunder from the south.. I tell you, it's just teasing me. Dont have to go into work till this afternoon and I wanted to have a nice sleep in!!! Typical
We had really heavy rain from about 2am in Kerikeri, and as I rolled over and opened my eyes at 6.30am this morning, I managed to catch the most amazing forked lighting i'd ever seen.. All pinks and purples.. The noise shook the whole house, all the dogs barked, my cat put holes in my leg from being so scared.. Then after that there was nothing for another 20 mins, till a nice flash of sheet lightning and a roll of thunder from the south.. I tell you, it's just teasing me. Dont have to go into work till this afternoon and I wanted to have a nice sleep in!!! Typical
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That sounds like the most exciting weather in the country for a while!Angel wrote:Well, what an interesting morning it's been up here.
We had really heavy rain from about 2am in Kerikeri, and as I rolled over and opened my eyes at 6.30am this morning, I managed to catch the most amazing forked lighting i'd ever seen.. All pinks and purples.. The noise shook the whole house, all the dogs barked, my cat put holes in my leg from being so scared.. Then after that there was nothing for another 20 mins, till a nice flash of sheet lightning and a roll of thunder from the south.. I tell you, it's just teasing me. Dont have to go into work till this afternoon and I wanted to have a nice sleep in!!! Typical
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you can see the heavy rain they had here:
http://www.hansenproducts.co.nz/weather/whangarei.htm
looking very black now to the north of me
and ricky's lightning detector shows strikes in west auckland
http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html
http://www.hansenproducts.co.nz/weather/whangarei.htm
looking very black now to the north of me
and ricky's lightning detector shows strikes in west auckland
http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html
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to watch the CB pass over me, check here:
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/webcamjava.html
and you can do plane spottin too as they land at auckland airport, and fly right over our place (in a NE wind)
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/webcamjava.html
and you can do plane spottin too as they land at auckland airport, and fly right over our place (in a NE wind)
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http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/videolasthour.wmv
ricky's web cam movie shows the CB line moving in nicely (last hour to 12:00 noon)
heard some thunder now, but it looks like it has weakened a bit for lightning, acordings to ricky's boltec tracker...
ricky's web cam movie shows the CB line moving in nicely (last hour to 12:00 noon)
heard some thunder now, but it looks like it has weakened a bit for lightning, acordings to ricky's boltec tracker...
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heres the 11am satellite pass. This shows quite clearly the Cb line that just hit west auckland with thunder and lightning.
as brian says it has weakened a bit now, but there could be some stuff behind it..
great stuff, althought didnee hear any thunder
as brian says it has weakened a bit now, but there could be some stuff behind it..
great stuff, althought didnee hear any thunder
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Thunder in the west just went on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on.. you get the picture!! From 2.30 to 3.15 Very hard to see lightning. Too bad the conditions were 'scungy' rather than the nice clean convection, like on August 25. Not a good day for photography.. here's what I could achive.
Cheers!
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