Friday - Thunder

Angel · Unread post by **Angel** » Fri 16/06/2006 16:19

I'm in West Auckland (blockhouse bay) at the moment, and its all thundery and lovely and I'm going out to be a weather geek soon with my friends camera and tripod hahahaha If anyone in west auckland would like to join me, i'll be down at Blockhouse Bay Beach hahaha

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Fri 16/06/2006 16:25

Amazing isn't it? We had two strikes a min or 8 or so minutes

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Fri 16/06/2006 16:53

Brief heavy downpour here a while ago with some small hail.. ~3mm

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Fri 16/06/2006 17:52

I was stuck at work waiting for the heavy rain and hail to stop, I made it out to the car about 15-20 minutes after the hail, it was easily 10mm with some up to 15mm

The lightning was pretty good as well, I saw an interesting 'thing' about a second before the flash, there was like a strobe going off quite low down somewhere between Freemans Bay and Mt Eden. Wonder if it was some powerlines arcing as the atmospheric potential increased before the lightning?

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Fri 16/06/2006 17:58

some of thoses hailstones are alright size

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Fri 16/06/2006 18:56

There were some very strong squalls so probably some power lines blowing together somewhere... there were some big power glitches here..
wow that was much larger hail than here, but we were kindof on the edge of that

Angel · Unread post by **Angel** » Fri 16/06/2006 19:05

It was real neat down at the beach, got some interesting photos, but it was too light for a long exposure on the camera, so they were all coming out white.. but I got some neat arty shots that i'll upload soon so you can all see

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Fri 16/06/2006 19:51

second line approaching the coast and intensifying now

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 16/06/2006 19:55

Boring - this is Auckland, as per usual

I wont go on...

JohnGaul
NZTS

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 16/06/2006 20:03

Have seen several Lightning flashes out to the NW past 5 mins, perhaps another storm on the way if the Cell holds up.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 16/06/2006 20:24

hi
drove through intense hail/rain north of waiuku at 3:30pm today, visibility was poor, it was white out conditions basicly, had to slow to 50kmh....and lightning every minute

some were right over head with great purple flashes

.... saw 3 lots of great CG's only 1 km or so from the car as driving along at other times when out of the hail
excellent squall line, most impressive,best seen or a long time

foggys lightning tracker shows lots of activity around and to the south of pukekohe
http://www.hamiltonweather.co.nz/lightn ... rmVue.html
at the moment

rickys shows this as well

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 16/06/2006 20:27

Moderate rain showers in Waitakere/ Swanson at home right now, a couple of small thunderclaps but nothing too dramatic

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Fri 16/06/2006 20:31

Looking pretty damp in Auckland on Trackside at the moment

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 16/06/2006 20:34

Heavy shower here now.

Brian, interesting to get your report from Waiuku way.

By the look of the lightning tracker, western Waikato got hammered as well. The storm over AK city was out over the NW suburbs.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Fri 16/06/2006 20:35

We have just had a very good squall come through - I was trying to photograph the lightning out of a ranch-slider - ended up mopping up heaps of water instead!

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Fri 16/06/2006 21:28

try and get some pics if you can guys

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/06/2006 06:36

just occured to me that some of that hail is clear hail graeme

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sat 17/06/2006 08:36

Thunder every few seconds here at the moment (Waitakere's), something big comes!!

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Sat 17/06/2006 08:39

We just had another brief squall come through with a couple of belts of thunder and some 'rough' looking hail.

What does the clear hail mean? Would it have formed in one 'go' rather than be held in an updraught?

edit googled a bit

An opaque ice layer forms when the hailstone collects small, supercooled liquid water drops that freeze rapidly on impact, thereby trapping air bubbles within the ice and giving it a "milky" texture. When larger supercooled water drops impact on a hailstone, the freezing is slower, allowing the air bubbles to escape, and thus forming clear ice.

Cheers,

G

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/06/2006 08:46

lots of thunder here at the moment too

cold too, for here, 8oC with rain

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 17/06/2006 08:48

Razor wrote:Thunder every few seconds here at the moment (Waitakere's), something big comes!!

Picking up a few of those strokes from here, just enroaching onto us now is one super upper cold pool, -34C @ 500mb... freezing level about 1200m

How about starting a Sat thread?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 17/06/2006 08:55

Not much showing on Greylynn Tracker.
Have heard the odd thunderclap through the West , getting dark here now.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sat 17/06/2006 09:02

Bright Lightning flash overhead,Loud Thunder.
Storm passing near by, mod rain here.

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Sat 17/06/2006 11:45

I just learnt something new about hail cheers for that

Manukau heads obs · Sat 17/06/2006 13:35

heavy rain band going through here now.,...