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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 :P
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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 :P
That sounds like the most exciting weather in the country for a while!
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lucky northalnders eh!

heres the 6am (ish) sat image which clearly shows the line of active Cb cloud over the top of the NI.
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Pleased to hear the Thunder and lightning has finally arrived.
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Excellent stuff! They can miss out a lot during summer but certainly not spring! :P
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Just heard that Massy ( West Auckland ) is getting Thunder now...
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spike_01 wrote:Just heard that Massy ( West Auckland ) is getting Thunder now...
Very heavy showers at North Shore now.

Good to see the MetService updating their urban forecasts, with thunder being mentioned :)
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spike_01 wrote:More proof will be here... 8)

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/mess ... id=5797081
and here!
http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/boltek600.png
Suggesting it was also slightly severe :)
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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
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Well from Levin, If I look NW there is a build up of CN clouds... Looking interesting... 8)
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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)
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Still sunny here... :? But hoping...

Might go and catch some whitebait before it arrives... :P
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Built up in 10 minutes... Is it OK to put pics in here?... Dont know how to do the thumbnail bit...


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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) 8)

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 :x
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the worst of it went out into the tasman just off the coast here...
i can see blue skies to the north now...

a fizzer here
but best exciting weather since july!!
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The auckland tracker is picking up fresh strikes over central NI now, averaging around 6 per minute....

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BIG loud thunder in Central Hamilton within the last 5 minutes! \:D/ =D>

1.45 R/R shows rain band weakening but pretty hefty Cb's.convection developing over Northern Waikato.. so it's making up for that!
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Tracker is showing a lot of Lightning South of AK.
Front is through here but we still have some nice looking build ups around.

Photo shows Frontal Showers.
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Photo-Frontal shower South of Auckland early afternoon.
Its a shame that Front came through so early, better chance of Storms if they come through about 4 or 5 pm.
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Yes, timing is everything with thunderstorms. Front came in to early.
Just didn't get the prefrontal surface heating.

The last two summers have been duds for convection around Auckland. Hopefully this coming summer delivers.
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We got some heavy showers in Tauranga round 5.30pm, but no hint of thunder & lightning that I observed.
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We got some heavy showers in Tauranga round 5.30pm, but no hint of thunder & lightning that I observed.
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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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