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Probably better to start a new thread...Heard theres forked lightning in Hamilton...Hot here with 25c currently fresh N

Raining heavily in Waitakere now with thunder

Rain just arriving in grey LYnn now.. thunder heard

Headed south of the Bombays with Nzstorm.
Watched a great storm move through central Waikato. Torrential rain around Huntly with overhead CG's.
Currently thundery skies around AK.

One really good downpour here, 4.5mm recorded, some lightning ic near overhead, a few cgs to the NW and SW.. patches of clear sky now, front pretty much through

Distant but bright Cg's from this cloud as we drove south through Waikato this afternoon(photo), this cloud is about Hamilton. Drove into the storm line at Huntly. Had thundery weather on the drive back to Ak.
Have heard there was a Tornado in the Rotorua area ?.

Not ruddy Auckland etc. again
All we get here is a cruddy clap yesterday and thats it
Steady but needed light rain here at the moment after the "Ne Change" come through from 1:30pm

JohnGaul
NZTS

Quite a superstorm indeed... rivalling 16th September 2005, and 26 November 2003 of recent years. The greatest asset today was the impressiveness of how thick the forked lightning was, and the decibel readings were very extreme.
Was oh so close to recording it on camera

Flash flooding in parts of Auckland this afternoon

Foggy Hamilton wrote: The greatest asset today was the impressiveness of how thick the forked lightning was,

Dont quite get what u mean?? Lightning is only a couple of cm thick??

Did anyone see One News Weather? showed damage from a tornado in Rotorua I think it was.

edit: It was Rotorua,not wellington.

03 Stormchaser wrote:

Foggy Hamilton wrote: The greatest asset today was the impressiveness of how thick the forked lightning was,

Dont quite get what u mean?? Lightning is only a couple of cm thick??

Yes.. but it was highly concentrated with voltage. Which makes it look bigger

Here's an example of what I saw today, but closer and during the day.
http://www.stormstock.com/SSCGLI%7e2.ASF

Skies starting to 'activate' again, isolated heavish showers still lingering in the southwest.

Cheers

Great to see some action

Do you mean the duration of the bolt Foggy?like it dances 2 or three times instead of one quick strike.
Rain here and still raining good for gardens indeed stock up for rest of summer 10.2mm so farr and with more rain at the end of the week
It should hopefully be our turn sometime within next month to get a beast like the NI storm today but time can only tell.
Cheers
Jason.

It should hopefully be our turn sometime within next month to get a beast like the NI storm today but time can only tell.
Cheers

More 'freak' thunderstorms on the way for NZ this week into next week.
There looks to be a good chance for Canterbury again about Thurs.

Jasestrm wrote: Rain here and still raining good for gardens indeed stock up for rest of summer 10.2mm so farr and with more rain at the end of the week
Cheers
Jason.

Only 3.4mm here and its stopped now. Be watering the gardens again in a couple of days.

NZstorm wrote:

It should hopefully be our turn sometime within next month to get a beast like the NI storm today but time can only tell.
Cheers

More 'freak' thunderstorms on the way for NZ this week into next week.
There looks to be a good chance for Canterbury again about Thurs.

also saturday?

Heavy rain showers has kicked in here, 16c, dewpoint 15c, wind has even turned southerly here!

Some thundery falls about Whakatane-Gisborne this morning.

Thunderstorms likely everyday now until Saturday morning for the upper North Island

Cb out to our East earlier this afternoon.
I see there's afternoon TS East Cape area.

i love that photo spwill !

We had a massive thunderstorm yesterday morning but I couldnt stay here for it... Had to go to Palmerston Nth Hospital as my wife was in there...

What chance another one tomorrow... Nice wee front heading this way...

ps she is home now so heres hoping...