Next coupla days up this way...

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 08:26

I'm surprised that no one has made mention of the awesome waterspout that was in central auckland at 4.35pm last night.

The footage on TV1 looked like it was by the chelsea sugar factory (how sweet is that?!) and apparently is stopped traffic on the harbour bridge!

sweet!...anyway some good looking Cb's around this morning with the potential for some T/S action till the end of the week. its a bit dejavu (sp?) really from last week.

oops ! my bad, i see there was a mention of the waterspout on another thread. Did anyone here see it?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 10/05/2006 08:40

I'm surprised that no one has made mention of the awesome waterspout that was in central auckland at 4.35pm last night

Saw the TV Footage, spectacular.

Can see the Cb line in our west to come through late morning

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 08:47

those Cb's this morning with the early morning light on them were just fantastic

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 10/05/2006 09:08

i'm not surprised to hear about the waterspout, it was around the time flash flooding was occuring outside my office in Grafton with a tremendous downpour.

Cb"s this morning look impressive but the SW flow is pushing them to the north at this stage

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 10/05/2006 09:13

Having said that...latest rain radar picking up very significant showers out to the west of the upper north. Maybe they will get organised into something exciting

Manukau heads obs · Wed 10/05/2006 09:39

i only saw the last part of the waterapout footage on TV unfortunatley, but it looked realy good!
i was in the city yesterday afternoon, and then in Clarkes beach about the time it occured and could see a big black bse cloud and nice punching white towering cumulus tops!!
it seems that its in the stage just before glaciation of the anvil head, with the maximum updraughts, that waterspouts occur

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 09:44

Manukau heads observer wrote:it seems that its in the stage just before glaciation of the anvil head, with the maximum updraughts, that waterspouts occur

yes i've noticed that too, most landspouts or water spouts and funnels that people see do seem to come from congestus or T/Cu rather than glaciated Cb....just me observation really!

i remember the funnel that we had in aucks last feb that occured over the waitaks one hot afternoon from a convectively active convergence zone came from a T/cu rather than a Cb. I think you may be on the right track with regards to maximum updraughts etc etc.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 10/05/2006 10:14

That CB referred to this morning on the webcam has now produced a nice little squall line that is skirting the CBD and heading out mainly towards the Nth Shore, Albany area. Quite impressive, looks to be more CB's tucked in behind to follow.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 10/05/2006 10:34

All thats happening here is horizontal rain with SW Gales

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 10:39

Michael wrote:All thats happening here is horizontal rain with SW Gales

It must suck living in Turkadurkastan

i hear they get SW gales all the time over there

Manukau heads obs · Wed 10/05/2006 10:42

we did get a brief good squall here, 29kts, and a big temperature drop too

but you get that with these weather conditions and just adds to the power of it all

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 10:54

weak tornadoes 2moro now apparently with the cold air pool etc etc.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Wed 10/05/2006 11:41

yea...I saw the most impressive CB's I've seen all year, while travelling to uni on the bus through Avondale. They looked like separate nuclear bombs going off with a lot of congestus build up around the base. With the sun shining on them showing the shadows and everything, it was great

.....I love not having my camera when I need it!

lol Anyway, there were lots of people on the bus and they were beginning to think I was weird looking around out of the windows all the time,lol

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 11:46

hey cameo how ya goin? yes i know what you mean, they certainly looked awesome.

Heres the 10am NOAA sat pic, shows the big beefy Cb's rather nicely

no lightning tho, is this due to a slightly shallower tropopause??

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 10/05/2006 11:59

What I cant understand,its not thunder or lightning, or not fine as 99.5% of the population likes,What do people like about misted windows,leaves all over the place,dark in peak traffic,cold driving rain and long wet mushy lawns stuck inside shivering seeing grey murk for weeks and weeks on end ?

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 10/05/2006 12:02

Michael wrote:What I cant understand,its not thunder or lightning, or not fine as 99.5% of the population likes,What do people like about misted windows,leaves all over the place,dark in peak traffic,cold driving rain and long wet mushy lawns stuck inside shivering seeing grey murk for weeks and weeks on end ?

If you don't like it you can always move somewhere else. Otherwise get over it and live with it!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 10/05/2006 12:05

C-Nimbus wrote: no lightning tho, is this due to a slightly shallower tropopause??

Lots 'o blobs of lightning off the Waikato coast this morning.
Sadly too cold for significant convection today.. will have to rely on that sea.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 12:30

Razor wrote:
Michael wrote:What I cant understand,its not thunder or lightning, or not fine as 99.5% of the population likes,What do people like about misted windows,leaves all over the place,dark in peak traffic,cold driving rain and long wet mushy lawns stuck inside shivering seeing grey murk for weeks and weeks on end ?
If you don't like it you can always move somewhere else. Otherwise get over it and live with it!

ill second that

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 12:55

Small hail storm out west apparently

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 10/05/2006 13:23

C-Nimbus wrote:Small hail storm out west apparently

Not surprised. Been running up Mt Eden for luch. Huge CB's coming across from Manakau Heads and sliding accross south Auckland. No sign of lightning but wouldn't be surprised....looks to be clearing accross the rest of town though

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Wed 10/05/2006 13:29

yeah i reckon this is fairly classic stuff for this time of year, lots of cold topped lowish Cb's all lined up delivering hail and heavy showers.

we often dont get lightning with this type of stuff IMO

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 10/05/2006 14:16

Thundery Cb's now clearing the western fringes from Taranaki to Kaipara.

From my view they seem to be losing it as they make landfall.. whereas otherdays they would've fired up further.

Thunder risks subsiding tomorrow, but hail chances increasing during the afternoon with those freezing levels dropping to around 1600m.
Westerlies rising tomorrow with gusts to 80km/h

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Wed 10/05/2006 16:52

C-Nimbus wrote:
Razor wrote: If you don't like it you can always move somewhere else. Otherwise get over it and live with it!
ill second that

I think you'll just have to let it roll by - people get their kicks in differing ways

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Thu 11/05/2006 07:19

Wow, what an amazing colour everthing is, greeny, Gold...

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Thu 11/05/2006 08:13

Where are you currently Arrowtown,Wellington?

Its all Grey and browns here

Cameo1 wrote:Wow, what an amazing colour everthing is, greeny, Gold...