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Closest action with my boltek yet! Not sure if it's ranging properly though against ricky's one..
But rain radar is suggesting otherwise.. to the N!
Weird.. i knew something was calling for me to wake up so early!

Yes!.. trying to work out where it all is exactly here too, really fired up from evening...

Those nice cells i'm picking up look to be heading between Port Waikato and Raglan. Southwest Westland looks to be copping it at the moment too. 9.4mm overnight.. that was suprising.

It's very close!

heading back home today,.....my station must have lost connection to the internet...router needs resetting....
some heavy rain here overnight in Turangi....
lots of snow still on the road side/out in the fields, around the desert road (in drifts)
lots of snow up in ruapehu too,,,,but it was drizzling up there yesterday, so not very pleasent....kids just played in the snow beside the carpark....
will be good to go home to some action cb's over the next few days?
(also, finally got the usa storm chase video dubbed off (our video camera packed up when i went to play it when i got home (and too old, no spare parts they told us)....so will need to have a auckland weather meet to show the video...some good footage (some bad footage too, LOL)

Some good looking CB's rolling over from the waitaks to the CBD as I wandered in from the train at Mt Eden just now.

Looks like some action today!

Getting very black here now, tracker has eased off the activity here.

yes some fairly low topped Cb's out west this morning with plenty more in the wings. Looks pretty unstable thats for sure!,

Has turned out to be a fizzer here. Back to the same old boring occasional light showers

Ok change that, thunderstorm over head and the tracker's going wacko
http://www.sphere.net.au/strikestarau/

Thunderstorm moving over Hamilton airport now.... visbility down to 2500m in rain.

From what I an see from here just a few Towering Cu showers around Auckland, but some distant Cb to our SW.
Looks like plenty of Action in the Tasman

Here's a photo looking into Waikato, you need a good eye to see the Cb top.

rain radar shows a nice compact intense CB heading towards the waitaks...

Tstorm clearing off now.. observed some nice IC and CG to the east before.

Edit, yup, Auckland's turn next

Manukau heads observer wrote:rain radar shows a nice compact intense CB heading towards the waitaks...

yes yes there is a huuuuge Cb about 40 clicks offshore from the rradar!!

and the tracker has got it!!!

Shower just through, up to 2.6mm/min

our Cb up here just fizzed i think according to tracker.

cant see much too, theres too much mid deck stuff which should hopefully clear as the day progresses.

Whats happened to nz storm these days?

Whats happened to nz storm these days?

I think he has been working on this http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz

Raining here now, very dark sky.

Whats happened to nz storm these days?

Waiting for the next thunderstorm! But it doesn't look like it will be today. Maybe tomorrow. That front in the Tasman Sea looks active!

NZstorm wrote:

Whats happened to nz storm these days?

Waiting for the next thunderstorm! But it doesn't look like it will be today. Maybe tomorrow. That front in the Tasman Sea looks active!

Hey steven good to have ya back! i was wondering what was happening with your website as it i visit it quite often.

The Tasman Sea looks to be a real pit of vipers today

heres the landsat 11am image.....

coooor some beefies on there, and it shows quite nicely the cell that affected northern waikato/hauraki this morning.

So 2moro then aye??

oh man, looks like Hamilton's getting it AGAIN! I hate Aucklands weather! It might just be me, but when I look at all sat pics, lightning trackers and radar pics, storms seem to switch off to the South west of Auckland out to sea before making land fall. Why does this constantly happen? It can't be land topography because it often happens 50km off shore. Is there a cold surface water current out there or something? It can't be put down to chance because it happens so frequently. It is very frustrating

Yes, there's another Thunderstorm over Waikato at the moment.

Dewpoints are around 13C this afternoon, good for winter Tstorms.