Cool, Wet and Windy Westerlies

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 05/10/2005 01:45

Woken by a Thunder clap.
Heavy squally shower has just shower passed over, Front through.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 05/10/2005 03:39

Oh u cantabs have missed a lot! Where are you??

Just on ZB from Kaikoura: "I have never experienced such heavy rain in my life since living here for over 10 years!" Lightning there too!

Nice RR animations from all dopplars

The Wellington rr shows Kaikoura much better...

Hope you enjoy cantabs, i'm doing this for you, asleep in bed oblivius to it all. I think these Kaikoura thunderstorms were pulled over everyone's eyes well and truly!
Cheers!

(The forum's 20000th post btw

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Manukau heads obs · Wed 05/10/2005 06:55

he he, i mentioned the heavy rain in south canty from what i could see on the rain radar in Johns boring thread at 12:30am...and i say the heavy rain over the top NE corner of the SI, and thought that looked very heavy, for having survived over the ranges there,,..it some how must have snuck through some gaps!

will be good for canty dairy farmers, getting that rain

i would say Mt Hutt must have got alot of snow?!

squally showers here this morning
45knot gust with that front passage at the farm last nite

cool animations there foggy!

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 05/10/2005 08:27

Weather was better 2 months ago than this crap

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 05/10/2005 12:11

Squally showers about, sat pic shows bigger Cb to come.
Just took this photo.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 05/10/2005 12:21

Cool photo spwill! Not much to photograph here..
Though some big Cb's with topping temps of up to -60c on the way very shortly!

Some fresh strikes being picked up inland from Raglan, and also south of Pukekohe.

At the moment, cloudy with shower, gusty westerly, 13c

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 05/10/2005 12:27

Mainly fine here at the moment but a freash westerly and adjacent cb's. Some of them look strong with good anvils on them.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Wed 05/10/2005 12:38

was just driving back from the city.. Cbs everywhere! and lots of blue sky in between love it!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 05/10/2005 12:40

Rainy dark Cu is clearing and blue sky is appearing...

Wholey MOLEY!! They are HUGE!!

What is the height of the tropopause today?

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Wed 05/10/2005 13:00

The midnight sounding showed 11,000m here

, have to wait a bit for todays..

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 05/10/2005 13:30

yes some nice looking cold-top Cb's for sure, the few that I have seen all have fairly well developed mammatus on them too.

should be some hail for sure.

attached is 9:30am NOAA sat pic, its a bit old now but it does show all of those Cb's poised and ready to attack.

nice report on bfm this morning btw ricky!

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Wed 05/10/2005 13:33

has lowered to 7,000 but very cold almost -28 at 500 and unstable even at DP7 and 15C surface as it is here

Manukau heads obs · Wed 05/10/2005 13:57

it looks impressive on the sat image
but those showers are near me here now...and they are much colder,older and "tired" looking anvils...rain radar shows not as heavy rain with them
the ones this morning had alot stronger vertical lift etc

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 05/10/2005 14:13

Yes Brian ,a lot of spent anvil cloud into the West now.

Hail in the last shower here .

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 05/10/2005 14:45

Lightning strikes now mainly in western Bay of Plenty rather than western Waikato and Northern Coromandel.

Showers continue, squally westerly, a miserable 12c

Manukau heads obs · Wed 05/10/2005 16:20

baro dropping all afternoon
wind slowly increasing here...
been gusts to 42 knots (78kmh)

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 05/10/2005 17:07

been some lovely huge cb's fomr 11 am onwards some with overshooting tops have not seen that for a while baro is still on 1000 wind is on the increase some nice heavy showers no thunder or hail yet heard fornt go through about 2am this morning with a very heavy squall nice to listen to would have been nice to watch had it come during the day but nevermind more thunderstoms on the way they reckon hope they are right

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 05/10/2005 17:25

New crop of heavy squally showers moving across Ak late afternoon.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 05/10/2005 17:37

Have just taken this photo, Cb has a Thundery look to it.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 05/10/2005 18:32

nice photos
impressive westerly jet stream that has been pouring into the tasman from tasmania today!
have not seen it like that for a while
usualy results in some big gales to come with it...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 05/10/2005 18:47

Roll on Late February

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 05/10/2005 19:36

Can I suggest all Michaels' gripe posts go on one thread!

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Wed 05/10/2005 20:42

lol hey some really nice pics there... I saw some i dont know how to spell the word lol you know thoses bumps that are under the anvils of Cb yea those this evening as i was finishing the lawns made for a pretty sunset very high tops

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 06/10/2005 15:12

squid wrote:lol hey some really nice pics there... I saw some i dont know how to spell the word lol you know thoses bumps that are under the anvils of Cb yea those this evening as i was finishing the lawns made for a pretty sunset very high tops

Mammatus?
Brian saw them too at Awhitu

There's a chance we maybe rested from these westerlies as warm light northeasterlies develop on Sunday and turn easterly (for the AK northwards) on Monday. But this too is preceded by heavy rain, without the gales! I'm thinking East Coast of Northland, Coromandel-Western BoP, and Wairarapa later on could be in for some localised flooding.

Early days still. Still lots of rain tonight, Friday night and mini-cold outbreaks for the South Island, so the models will continue to change.

Cheers

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Thu 06/10/2005 15:30

Blowing a very solid Westerlie here now... Enough to knock the smaller branches off my rather shabby Willow tree...

Sorry dont have a wind guage thingy, but its bl***y windy anyway...