Rain and Thunderstorms: Upper North Is 30th-3rd

Manukau heads obs · Sun 02/10/2005 12:17

active cb line now arching in a curve over the waitekere ranges
rain radar shows narrow line of heavy rain
it would have looked quite impressive if clear skies out to the east!
the rain should be onto us here in the next 5 minutes

rain at hobsonville now:
http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/kaipara/index.html

update: rain radar shows SE movement....northore is going to get a heavy band or rain about now...

update
hosing with rain here now...surprisingly heavy
was wathcing carefully a low hanging cloud just to my north!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 02/10/2005 12:59

Front looks through here now. Still some light rain after heavy shower.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 02/10/2005 13:13

Brian said

active cb line now arching in a curve over the waitekere ranges

Here's a photo

Rain arrived here with a brief squally Downpour.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 02/10/2005 13:37

look up aucklanders!
great looking mama couds!
photo coming...

Manukau heads obs · Sun 02/10/2005 13:50

mama couds, over mangere area

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sun 02/10/2005 14:12

front seems to have gone through here convection happening on the backside of it giving us heavy showers

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sun 02/10/2005 17:11

did i say the front has gone through i seem to b wrong the rain set back in again quiet steady had 11 mm all up so far

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 02/10/2005 17:50

Yes, the rain has been a bit reluctant to clear here. That front looks to be slow moving at the moment now.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 02/10/2005 19:22

Photo-That squally Front moving over the city around midday, joined 3 photo's

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20mm has fallen, Still raining.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sun 02/10/2005 19:27

Here's a photo

Rain arrived here with a brief squally Downpour.

In the photo, there looks like a transparent tornado. (ie one not sucking anything up off the ground)

Manukau heads obs · Sun 02/10/2005 19:46

we have not had as much rain here ricky, the rain has been in a line right over the city...
rain radar shows a second low has formed on the front, east of northland, which is moving SSE ....

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sun 02/10/2005 20:34

that 2nd low would explain y the wind shift to the south for a time this afternoon here now gone round to the south west more baro sitting on 1002 and still raining light to steady 14mm now

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 02/10/2005 22:11

Periods of rain here, increasing to the evening now.

Great photos Brian!

Yes thunder does look very favourable tomorrow for Northern regions

Time to extend the topic title to the 3rd

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 02/10/2005 22:32

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Periods of rain here, increasing to the evening now.
Yes thunder does look very favourable tomorrow for Northern regions
Time to extend the topic title to the 3rd

JohnGaul
NZTS
Rain = was that ???

I get bored with reading posts about thunderstorms north of a line from Taranaki to Gisborne.
Thinking -

I might change the name of my society to the NZ South Island Thunderstorm Society, with interests in lower North Island thunderstorms as well.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/10/2005 07:55

Great photos Brian!

I just happened to catch those mamatus at their best looking....was sitting having lunch, with some Irish visitors (only 3 days in NZ), and I pointed them out to them...they said they have never seen anything like that before....obviously they dont get very strong thunderstorm/CB development like we can here!

John, why is your signature appearing as the first line on your posts?

hey, auckland storm chasers, the Sunday program (TV1) said to me they want to maybe do an program on storm chasing in NZ...whadya reckon?

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Mon 03/10/2005 08:22

Just boring rain here... Nothing " special " happening...

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/10/2005 08:47

barometer dropping here, wind has backed to the west...adn increasing..
either the low is moving back around on onto us, or its deepening quite quickly at the moment...

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 03/10/2005 09:23

John said-[quoteI get bored with reading posts about thunderstorms north of a line from Taranaki to Gisborne.
][/quote]

Should see some Thunderstorms in Canterbury later this week if you get the day time heating with on shore winds.

Cool and overcast here.
Some sunny weather here this morning would be interesting.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 03/10/2005 12:02

hey, auckland storm chasers, the Sunday program (TV1) said to me they want to maybe do an program on storm chasing in NZ...whadya reckon?

Chasing in USA would make an interesting story. Not sure about NZ.

The development of a surface southwesterly here this morning shifts todays convective risk east into eastern Waikato/BOP, maybe Coromandal too.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/10/2005 12:26

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Foggy Hamilton wrote:Periods of rain here, increasing to the evening now.
Yes thunder does look very favourable tomorrow for Northern regions
Time to extend the topic title to the 3rd
JohnGaul
NZTS
Rain = was that ???

I get bored with reading posts about thunderstorms north of a line from Taranaki to Gisborne.
Thinking -
I might change the name of my society to the NZ South Island Thunderstorm Society, with interests in lower North Island thunderstorms as well.

I'm sure you do! Too bad it's spring now so your going to hear much of the same from now up until about mid-Janurary, then central regions like Central Plateau/Manawatu will get more thunderstorms

Periods of rain showers continuing today, 14c with moderate southwesterlies
Fine break tomorrow, but evening showers, then a very wet showery, windy week ahead

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/10/2005 12:55

there was a nice line of CB's way off to my NW about an hour ago now...south kaipara must have got them...i was going to take a pciy, but had a visitor

also rain radar shows large area of shower activity which is going to roll onto auckland this sarvo...

there must be alot of rain falling in the king country, as the front has stalled there...

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 03/10/2005 13:13

Brian said

there was a nice line of CB's way off to my NW about an hour ago now...south kaipara must have got them...i was going to take a pciy, but had a visitor

Here's a photo of those Cb clouds.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 03/10/2005 13:25

thats the ones!
nice photo
hey spwill, you must nearly live on top of Mt Eden at times, LOL!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/10/2005 13:42

Cool pic, and that 500mb temps looks cool too by that Cb!

and wow you Aucklander's have blue skies there, 8/8 here since Friday night

Wind has turned southerly here and rain has set in, becoming heavy now, 13c

Big Cb's on the way for North Auckland and lower Northland, already has arrived here shown on the 1pm Satellite

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 03/10/2005 14:48

6mm during the last hour, looks brighter from the S to the W. Cold on 12c now