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looks like the northern half of the NI are in for some thunderstoms 2morow and maby tuedsday aswell could get some good falls what do you all reckon on this event :?:
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the wind here has gone back to the west and is fading away and the barometer has stopped rising
so something is happening, and it had a troughy look to the sky late afternooon, with some kelvin wave clouds even
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Unread post by spwill »

Looks like a lot of cloud to come across over the next 12 to 24hours.
Would be good to get some afternoon sunshine tomorrow to get some good lift happening.
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Its a big ask in Auckland :?
spwill wrote:Would be good to get some afternoon sunshine tomorrow to get some good lift happening.
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what are kelvin wave clouds :?: :?: and i reckon all we need is some good heating and things will fire up alot of cloud coming across now on the sat pic hopefully it will cross during the night and be going offshore as the sun is coming up ;)
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Looks good up north again for Thunderstorms :roll: ohh well hope you guys get some good pics especailly Spwill you get some great ones see if you can get some lightning too ;) .
Actually to recall its not really that bad in thunder terms here because last year we didnt get our first thunder day until 15th November and that was an electrical storm that one with not much rain and no hail. Although having saying that we have had Thunder earlier like in September 2003 as Aaron will recall and i Believe its on NZTS site quite a good one too.
I was reading the MS calendar today and on the 23rd of November 1992 a big thunderstorm hit Roxborugh in Otago with a record rainfall of 80mm in under an hour :shock: :D .
But hey the more thunder in NZ the better but the more here the even Merrier aye JOHN? 8) .
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Your weather is the mirror to ours in the N Atlantic. It poured and poured all night with no let up to the spell in sight yet.

I gather Japan or someplace copped a fair bit too, recently.
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Weatherlawyer wrote:Your weather is the mirror to ours in the N Atlantic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/pressure.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/aust ... sure.shtml
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alot of instability around this morning, NZ steel smoke producing lots of cloud over waiuku
but its overcast, so no local ground heating
but the trough/front/low out the west has been intensifying overnight and will move onto us here today...
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dang this stupid cloud evetything else is set up perfectly unless we get a break in this cloud grr :evil:
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Overcaste :( Some towering Cu about.
May get some sunshine this afternoon, hope so.
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Overcaste Some towering Cu about.
May get some sunshine this afternoon, hope so.
looks like we are in for an overcast day with the odd shower around. there is plenty of low level instability there. I'm not expecting any thunderstorm activity today, upper air doesn't look cold enough to me and surface dewpoints of 12C don't favour deep convection unless there is particularly cold air aloft, which there isn't.
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there is rain on the coastal hills here now.....
and good convection is occuring...due to the uplift of the coastal hills....
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heavy now too in places
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Yes, looking quite showery in the west. I guess some convergence there.
Fairly soild overcast here at the moment.

Looks to be isolated thunderstorms offshore (west central NZ) according to satellite/ricky's tracker.
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rain radar shows some quite heavy bits all the way up through the eastern kaipara area

heavy looking rain over the waiteres now, and on the hills here
building all the time
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Brian said
heavy looking rain over the waiteres now, and on the hills here
building all the time
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cloud cleared at 1 30 allowing convection to really get going a line of convergance form my NW to my SE all anvil toped not sure what it is going to do and it is building all the time 8)
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A cool overcaste day in Auckland. :( 15C, light rain and a few showers about.
Any Towering Cu look to be hitting a stablelayer.

A few heavy showers over Northland with the sunshine up there.
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Midday sounding indicates cu tops to 3500m, maybe a bit higher. Big enough clouds to produce localised heavy showers.
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We got a very useful 11.5mm during the late afternoon, hopefully the rainwater tanks will keep topped up as we go into summer.

Anyone seen the Darwin tracker tonight? http://www.northauschasers.com/Stormvue/StormVue.html

Currently it is showing 121 strikes per minute :shock: I'll really have to organise a trip there next year.

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rain has moved in now so nice to hear it on the roof :)
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8/8 here all day, with periods of rain, I got up to 15.7c

The metservice are dreaming if we're going to make 24c tmorrow.. it aint January yet!

However.. afternoon convectional showers on the way tomorrow :D
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Also, becoming hot for all of New Zealand on Thurs/Fri and Saturday in the north before the cooler change
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I like that word Foggy ;) cooler change possibly means something for us cantabrians :P not that iam gona say what it is just yet only hinting at this stage ;) .
Yes id say max of 27C for Thursday and 29+ for Friday for here but thats my temp bet what others think :? 8) .
Ohh don't forget everyone TV one tomorrow night 9:40pm the weather series is on :D be interesting to see what its like and it will be better to watch this instead of all this americanised weather jargon :evil: ;)
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