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Unstable start to week
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 06:45
by NZstorm
Might just start a new thread for todays weather.
Cold unstable air crossing the North Island today almost certainly means thunderstorms/hail developing inland as the day heats up.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 07:15
by GraemeWi
There were a few low topped cb's off to the west and north-west as I drove into work today - quite nice looking as the rising sun caught the tops.
Cheers,
G
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 07:15
by Manukau heads obs
we had a half decent shower here at 1am that gave 1 mm
i can see glaciated cb tops out the west now
for the last hour movie, see
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... rvideo.htm
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 09:33
by spwill
Sat pic shows nice looking Cb west of the NI this morn, suggests high risk of Thunder across central NI as that lot moves across the warmed land this afternoon.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 09:59
by ricky
Some lightning showing up a bit south of Hamilton somewhere now..
Foggy!? you out there?
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 11:29
by spike_01
Very dark here with some thunder... Coming from the South...
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 11:59
by spike_01
Shiiiiittteeeeeeeeee We just had a power cut, and 10 seconds later BOOM, the loudest thunder crack I have heard in years....
Dunno what the decibel reading would be, but it was loud !!!!
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 12:43
by squid
yay the storms have retuened to the NI again had a few downpours early this morning giving 6mm
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 13:25
by Willoughby
spike_01 wrote:Shiiiiittteeeeeeeeee We just had a power cut, and 10 seconds later BOOM, the loudest thunder crack I have heard in years....
Dunno what the decibel reading would be, but it was loud !!!!
Great to hear!!
Was asleep so I missed the thunderstorm activity this morning
Thunderstorms apparent at the moment Nelson Lowlands, North-inland Napier, Coromandel Town, Whakatane, Te Urewera Ranges, Levin.
Moderate westerly here, 16.2c, dewpoint 11c, baro steady, 8.4mm today.. heaviest just before 12pm.
SPECI 132100Z 27008KT 12KM VCSH FEW024CB SCT032TCU BKN045 14/10 Q1009 RMK LIGHTNING OBS E SPECI CEASES
Fog observed also this morning
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 13:30
by spwill
I see strikes on the Tracker to our South.
Cb around Ak city are mostly small, do not get good surface heating around the city in these cloudy Westerly situations.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 13:38
by Willoughby
90.8mm in the 2 hours to 12pm at Ngawi
Dry nearby. (Wellington, Masterton, Brothers Island)
24.8mm in the 3 hours to 1pm at Levin!
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 13:48
by spwill
90.8mm in the 2 hours to 12pm at Ngawi
Wow.
Heres the 1pm sat pic.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 13:52
by Willoughby
A spectacular! Cb to our Southeast!
Best ive seen in a while!
Too bad ive only got my pxt phone not digital camera
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 14:10
by Willoughby
A hail report out of Whakatane from a severe electrical storm
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 15:56
by Manukau heads obs
typicaly the best and biggest of the showers went just to the south of us here...
waiuku got a good one late morning
amazing how much the trough sharpened up, but the models did show that
you can see a good squall in the BOP at this web site
http://www.zanadu.info/weather/woodward.html
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 16:11
by C-Nimbus
Tornado just reported in whakatane, no one hurt but some mean destruction by the sounds of it.....woohoo!!!
better watch Te News tonite....also on a different topic, apparently the airbus A380 landed in Oz yesterday.....wonder how that could handle a T/S !!
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 16:28
by Manukau heads obs
wow!
and i had remarked to someone this morning,when a good squall line went over here (which had a very marked line too it), that the conditions looked ripe for a tornado somewhere (so it looks like their was enough instability further down the country to get one!)
thats the 2nd time this year i said to someone conditions are ripe and then someone gets one!
just tried to phone me sister near whakatane...but no one home, to see if i could get a first hand news, LOL
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 17:02
by spike_01
C-Nimbus wrote:Tornado just reported in whakatane, no one hurt but some mean destruction by the sounds of it.....woohoo!!!
Yup I heard about that... Some trees and a shed are history...
Huge clouds to the North of here now... Prolly about Wanganui area... Too far for my cr@p camera...
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 17:30
by Manukau heads obs
henderson, west auckland, about to get globered by the biggest cb/heaviest shower of the day so far!
could be hail in it...looks very black!
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 17:58
by Manukau heads obs
just had a good well defined squall line go through
took a picture, but the kids are on the pc, LOL, so i cant get it uploaded from the camera....
there was a little bit of hail at the start of the rain...
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 18:30
by NZstorm
Just had a heavy shower here with hail.
Todays midday NZWP sounding had an observed lifted index of -3.4 with the 500mb temp at -26.5C. Unseasonably cold.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 19:46
by tgsnoopy
It's still brewing
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 19:50
by Zanman
Heavy rain just passed through Pongakawa BOP. Lightning to the south. The worst of it looks as though it is tracking from the west to the north of us - out over Maketu and the sea.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 19:56
by Storm Struck
Good to see you guys getting some action this time
some quite good storms too.
I seen the pieace on the tornado just before the weather on one showed broken trees and flattend fences etc.
Now we could be sharing some more Thunder reports all of us for the end of this week
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Cheers
JASON.
Posted: Mon 14/11/2005 20:11
by Thunder
Awsome storms guy's! Horay!
Cheers