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Yes I also heard about the hail on one news weather just think how times that hail would have been dragged up and down within the storm clouds to get the hail eventually that big.
Here's a story on Stuff about it.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3492541a11,00.html
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could see those thunderclouds to my south ans south east this morning during the event the tops were really high aswell crispy must have hailed for some time to get drifts like that :shock:
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Good on you guys for going up there
I know my brother in law said to my sister, you gota come and see this!
(they live in Brynderwrn, and he was travelling through kaiwaka area...they got 50mm total at brynderwyn and only a bit of smail hail)
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Looked to be only a narrow strip that got the very large fall of hail, maybe 2km wide.
The Hail Storm crossed highway 1 around kaiwaka and moved out to sea between Waipu Cove and Langs Beach, Hail stones where larger on the coast.

$2 coin and hail stone
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spwill wrote:$2 coin and hail stone
Whoa! Amazing stuff. :shock:
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Saw this Cb cloud to the NE of Auckland around midday.
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Warkworth to Bream Bay/Waipu told ya so! ;) But not the hail.. that was amazing!!!!! :shock: :shock:

Rain lightening now.. but boy.. that was the most wintery day we've had this year.
11.7c Max :shock: I was thinking 14c was low! :oops: :D

As for thunderstorms tomorrow, they look on but should only be very isolated

Brrrrr it's cold!! I notice Waiouru is on 3c at 10pm with recent precip.

Does look very cold in the UK, an early winter there.
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Excellent weather in Dunedin and up the east coast of the South Island to Oamaru today, and perfect in the Mackenzie (as always ;) )...but the usual nastiness around Kurow in the Waitaki Valley.
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it must have been cold and windy for the cycle tour around lake taupo over the weekend!
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Foggy said yesterday
As for thunderstorms tomorrow, they look on but should only be very isolated
Yes, cold dry air over us.
Currently sunny, mod southerly, 13C , dewpoint 6C .
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Frosts in the SI again today!

Yes spwill, dp's around 6C mean the chance of deep convection today is pretty much nil. Weather should stay clear.
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Regular showers (uncommon for us) in the last 24hrs or so and much colder than for weeks, but now mainly sunny. Cannot complain as month was very dry up to last Thursday and sunshine is well up for month and for the year. If MetService is right Gisborne is getting a return dose of earlier medicine.

Talked to a MetService guy who is collating info. on NZ's major past floods. The worst two were both 19th century - 1897 (Manawatu) and from memory 1867 (mostly eastern S Island). An extreme rainfall was 510mm in 10 hours at Rissington in the Esk Valley (Anzac floods of 1938?)
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NZstorm wrote:Frosts in the SI again today!
Omarama's overnight low was 0.2° at 06:24.
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Continuing pattern of cloudy periods and sunny intervals in Chch today, but staying rather chilly in the onshore flow. Any SI showers probably now confined to the Kaikoura Coast now.
Brrrrr it's cold!! I notice Waiouru is on 3c at 10pm with recent precip.
Latest mountain forescast has snow down to about 1100m on the Tararuas and Ruahines.
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Omarama's overnight low was 0.2° at 06:24.
Do you take grass readings. I would suggest 0.2C in the air would be about -3C on the grass. A moderate frost. :shock:
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fine day here with a S wind that is decreasing some cloud starting to build up to my east but that is about it
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There is some convection happening locally, and out to the east of here you can see a few large anvils that would be remaining from the just departed system
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Its happening all around us again settled weather here but rough stuff in other places across the world.
Australia spectacular storms Europe cold snap pacific islands unsettled with showers and storms I guess there's gotta be a prolounged period of bad weather coming up maybe January will be an unsettled month unstead of the sunny month it usually is hmm who knows.
Interesting about the cold snap in Europe sounds much like our snap of snow we had in September.
http://xtramsn.co.nz/technology/0,,1344 ... 86,00.html
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Yes, some nice t/cu out to the NW. Current temp 18C, dp7C.
What a pity the air is so dry. 500mb temperature on the midday NZWP sounding is -28C!!!.
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big towering CB's over auckland city now...
things have suddenly changed
i can see rain falling from it now
its gone from blue skies to CB's in 2 hours!
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big towering CB's over auckland city now...
Shower at my place.
Only moderate but a mix of large rain drops and small hail.
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Very beefy shower now in Grey Lynn... just in time for the santa parade in town!
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Clatter of hail stones here at the moment. Stones size 8mm. :)

I'm off for a drive. Quite widespread t/cu now.
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Quite localised.. was melted hail here.. big fat drops... but not surprised given how cold that sounding was!
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Clatter of hail stones here at the moment. Stones size 8mm.

Here's a pic of that shower.
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