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Some very big gusts of wind through here over the past 10 mins.
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That was a good one! :D I think one of those around Albany hit powerlines or near, I was eating at a North Shore Garden centre and the power flicked off for a sec with the flash! Quite a few Branches down on the drive back to the city, very strong Gusty winds.. reports of roof damage, odd powerlines down etc

Hey Foggy I'll help ya out with the Weatherstation if you want, would be great to have something good in Hamilton like you say! Thinking of a VP myself too :)
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photo of that CB as it went past me (the one that got auckland bad) :)
if you ask me, thats tornado looking weather :shock:
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Manukau heads observer wrote: hamilton airport gusting to 75kmh
Thanks for that info Brian.. it's a 2/365 event for the city home to light winds ;)
Thanks Ricky, help is appreciated

How can the MetService only put out wind land warnings for Auckland when we have trees down here?!?!!? :x

Heavy shower now, wind HOWLING loudly through the house and WHSITLING! :D
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Gusting to 74kph in chch
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yes foggy that was the right word i was looking for sorry been off for 2 days enjoying this wild wether beenn having wind gusts to 90kph here and squally showers we seem to be missing out on the thunderstorms grr but a very windy day baro went down to 988 now back up two 996 and rising it hasent rained here for sometimes now just sunny and windy gone form and NW to a W now and thanks for th elightning tracker sites I have added them to my favs any other gd tracking sites you know of???
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Possible Tornado been talked about here... Also lots of other threads in General re the Weather... 8)

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/mess ... id=6147768

Although this lot does go off topic very often... 8)
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Foggy Hamilton wrote:Yes i'm seriously looking into buying the Davis Vantage Pro wireless...
Hi Foggy, we are switching all our stations (including the Davis) over to PLCs and retiring the complicated logger/console/computer setups we've been using up to now. Let me know if you want any info on those.
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Fudge :shock: you guys got it going up there just heard Auckland Superdome's whole roof has been blown of and away completly the Black Eyed Peas concert was meant to be there but has been moved to St James Theatre and they have had to split tickets up with 2 different halfs to the concert to fit everyone in.
Next door neighbour disturbed our phoneline with his digger so its been out until 4pm.
Heavy rain at times this morning with small excitment before it eased with a Clap of thunder 8) with a heavy downpour and some large hailstones size of peas winds reached 70kmh at that point too. :) Too short lived to get anything bugger.
Cheers hope you North islanders stay safe.
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I am sure with this weather anyone would get Black eyes with peas flying at high velocity :lol:
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Michael wrote:I am sure with this weather anyone would get Black eyes with peas flying at high velocity :lol:
hahah... :P

Hey can someone tell me how to make thumbnail size pics for posting in here...

I only know how to put in the bigger ones...
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Hi Foggy, we are switching all our stations (including the Davis) over to PLCs and retiring the complicated logger/console/computer setups we've been using up to now. Let me know if you want any info on those.
maybe for remote stations gary, but for a home station i cant see the point, you will miss out on the great stuff you can see and analysis and graph etc with the data on a PC
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51 kts recorded at the brynderwyn station
strongest they have had!
again the wind was strongest in the south kaipara/south northland area...hence that why tiri tiri getting 70 kt gusts!
i.e waiuku was not getting winds as strong, when other times they would beat
them easily
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Manukau heads observer wrote:
Hi Foggy, we are switching all our stations (including the Davis) over to PLCs and retiring the complicated logger/console/computer setups we've been using up to now. Let me know if you want any info on those.
maybe for remote stations gary, but for a home station i cant see the point, you will miss out on the great stuff you can see and analysis and graph etc with the data on a PC
We still collect and graph (live) data.
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What's Omarama been like today Gary? I know it's been snowing earlier on the passes further north. No more rain in central Chch since about noon; the sun has now come out. But it's still chilly, though the wind has eased.
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tich wrote:What's Omarama been like today Gary? I know it's been snowing earlier on the passes further north. No more rain in central Chch since about noon; the sun has now come out. But it's still chilly, though the wind has eased.
It's been cool with some drizzle, but nothing exciting. There's a fresh dusting of snow on the higher peaks, but it's been washed and/or blown from the lower levels already.

I'm off to Twizel now to get the Meridian Energy controlroom weather station online, so hopefully you'll be able to see what's happening at that end of the Benmore range soon! :D
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spike_01 wrote:
Michael wrote:I am sure with this weather anyone would get Black eyes with peas flying at high velocity :lol:
hahah... :P

Hey can someone tell me how to make thumbnail size pics for posting in here...

I only know how to put in the bigger ones...
Guess not... :?
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spike_01 wrote:
Hey can someone tell me how to make thumbnail size pics for posting in here...

I only know how to put in the bigger ones...
Guess not... :?
I haven't figured that one out either spike.
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There looks to be some moist air in the North Tasman Sea, so we should get a good soaking off the next front. Should be a classic warm front given the cold air over NZ today.

Weather looks more settled from mid week.
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spike_01 wrote:Hey can someone tell me how to make thumbnail size pics for posting in here...
Click the Add an Attachment option when posting a reply.

A new panel will appear, use Browse to find the picture on your machine and type in a comment if you want. Then click Add Attachment which will upload the image and automatically make a thumbnail for it.

You can attach up to 5 images per post.
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baro has gone up 2 1002 now and the wind has back off a bit now yes looks like we r gonna get a soaking 2morow fomr this nxt system coming across
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Thanks... Just a test here, but was taken a day or 2 ago...

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And I have done this wrong... No new box for attachments arrived... :?
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Showers continie thiis morning with friesh winds, not suire not surfe of the directioon meh, sorry if this text is waywaard as i am a lil U KNOW :D

Eastewrly change tonight
Must be sbnnowioj heavuily gin the desert road, 2c and some rain/snow
Dont know what ur getting at spike,.?????

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If you click on Add an Attachment, you will see the box for adding Attachments.

Is it really that hard/... ;)
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spike_01 wrote:And I have done this wrong... No new box for attachments arrived... :?
:-k ... the panel appears below the Add an Attachment button on the same page so you might not see any difference in a smaller browser window. Maybe you were expecting a popup ?
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Ok trying again... This was near Wanganui... 8)
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