Thunderstorms, 12 July-

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Wed 12/07/2006 23:04

Why and where would it slide to? Last time I checked it was heading straight for us

The forcast was supposed to be for showers turning to rain lol, can't they even get that right?

Manukau heads obs · Wed 12/07/2006 23:48

your boltec is doing a great job foggy picking up the strikes occuring to teh NW of the raglan area

squid · Unread post by **squid** » Thu 13/07/2006 00:35

might be a tornado or two in this front what do ya reckon?

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 13/07/2006 02:40

Awoken by heavy rain, some hail in the mix there too.
Wind has tended WNW now

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 13/07/2006 06:28

Cameo1 wrote:Why and where would it slide to? Last time I checked it was heading straight for us The forcast was supposed to be for showers turning to rain lol, can't they even get that right?

Straight for us? Well it must have missed only 0.4mm of rain here in Swanson overnight. Light showers this morning but rain radar looking like a complete clearance. One big non event here, forecast got us all excited and as usual has left nothing but disappointment for Auckland chasers

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Thu 13/07/2006 07:00

I don't like looking at things like this.
It makes me feel sick

JohnGaul
NZTS[/quote]

What gets me John, is there seems to be this strange lack of cameras in the North Island!

Manukau heads obs · Thu 13/07/2006 07:54

sometimes that just the way the cookie crumbles with fronts approaching...they can get weak zones ("holes"), and that is what passed over the auckland area overnight....pretty hard to predict...it could have happened that the best passed through this area and not so good through waikato....
but as spwill says, from the NW, the city is quite a way inlands....
those cb's last night were weakening alot as they moved inland past raglan, away from the relatively warmer tasman sea..,...
but me being on the coast here,we can get some good cb's from the NW....maybe i should get a boltec too...(been worried about neighbours electric fences shorting out though)

Manukau heads obs · Thu 13/07/2006 09:13

there are lots more good looking CB's heading our way with the next low

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 13/07/2006 09:48

Go on Brian get the Boltek

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Thu 13/07/2006 10:27

All quiet on the Western Front...

Thinks maybe possibility of more Thunder later in the Afternoon...

Manukau heads obs · Thu 13/07/2006 17:31

check this out......shows how the upper level is much stronger than the surface wind at the moment....and next update will capture a nice sunset at the moment

http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb ... rvideo.htm

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 13/07/2006 18:17

Andrew Massie wrote:I don't like looking at things like this.
It makes me feel sick

JohnGaul
NZTS

What gets me John, is there seems to be this strange lack of cameras in the North Island!

[/quote]

I'm glad that nothing happened

I get pist off with Auckland/Hamilton getting the 'lions's share", nearly ALL THE TIME

JohnGaul
NZTS

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Thu 13/07/2006 23:07

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
Andrew Massie wrote:I don't like looking at things like this.
It makes me feel sick

JohnGaul
NZTS
What gets me John, is there seems to be this strange lack of cameras in the North Island!

I'm glad that nothing happened

I get pist off with Auckland/Hamilton getting the 'lions's share", nearly ALL THE TIME

JohnGaul
NZTS[/quote]

p.s GREAT tornado video, mate! And the dog's song... BRILLIANT!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 14/07/2006 02:40

Could see nice mammatus yesterday afternoon to the NE from an isolated Cb around 2.30pm.

Ohhh John, your're wasting the days there in dry 'ol eastern leeward Chch..

Seriously.

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Fri 14/07/2006 07:00

I observed a line in the cloud about 5pm yesterday which had Mama's so I'm assuming there was a down draught there. The things you see when you don't have a camera, it was quite an interesting look.

Shepherds Valley WX · Fri 14/07/2006 08:16

Does anyone else think John Gaul of the NZTS is starting to sound a little like Michael of Auckland?

(joking - of course!!)

Manukau heads obs · Fri 14/07/2006 10:42

surprising just how much the new low rolled up and over the upper NI
missed us here altogether.....
we might get a few showers with the ESE wind...but otherwise its another rain low we have missed here,....just for interest sake..

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 14/07/2006 12:55

I'm glad that nothing happened
I get pist off with Auckland/Hamilton getting the 'lions's share", nearly ALL THE TIME

Bugger all thunder here but being West Coast we do get a lot more than Chch.

Hope to get down to Canterbury Nov/Dec for a chase. There's more of a propensity for larger size hail down there but the trick is picking the right day.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 15/07/2006 08:09

and the rain did arrive here...the front moved back on to us that we got the other day....wrapped back around the new low to the north....as was predicted....a contrast to yesterdays sunny day!

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sat 15/07/2006 09:18

no rain here...must just be a shower localised to your end Brian

A cloudy but dry window all the way from Swanson to the city

Manukau heads obs · Sat 15/07/2006 10:08

rain radar showed more than a shower.....it was a north/south orientated rain band that brought widespread rain to the nth waikato area and coromandel.....but there was a hole in the rain band, and that hole passed over auckland....but a new shower is hitting south auckland now...heading towards west auckland...

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 15/07/2006 10:10

spwill wrote:
Hope to get down to Canterbury Nov/Dec for a chase. There's more of a propensity for larger size hail down there but the trick is picking the right day.

be good to see you!!

Manukau heads obs · Sat 15/07/2006 12:56

interesting that the ESE wind flow did not increase as the models/forecast had it...no big pressure gradient developed ...to the south of the low...the models had the front pushing into the high....but it did not happen....

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 15/07/2006 14:54

Nice warm southeasterlies today coming off that departing low, up to 17.3Â°C

I only got 0.2mm from that this morning.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Sat 15/07/2006 15:42

Not a drop in Swanson...it's actually starting to look like a dry spell at our place