Severe Storms/Active Trough, Upper NI, 1st-4th

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:27

Yes, the odd Lightning flash to our north this evening.

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:28

Wonders if we might get a wee tad of action down here tomorrow... It is on the cards I think...

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:39

ricky wrote:
Cameo1 wrote:whats wrong with the Auk lightning tracker?
The Web host has gone down... typical just when theres some action!...

Oh, Thanks Ricky. I hate how these storms have a mind of their own, they are north east of us moving south south-east in a NE wind....strange eh? They should be coming towards us

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:39

Just steady moderate rain here. Have heard a few distant rumbles in the last half hour. NW to NE direction.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:42

Photo, Heavy shower/storm moving across Auckland area early afternoon.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:53

All back and working now

yes I was driving back from the North Shore and saw some great C-Cs across the harbour! Some may yet make it across the city... time to go outside for a spa

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:58

ricky wrote:All back and working now yes I was driving back from the North Shore and saw some great C-Cs across the harbour! Some may yet make it across the city... time to go outside for a spa

Yeah saw a couple of anvil crawlers. Mostly hidden. Don't know their general direction though, they keep forming and reforming. I was at the park getting a view (in the middle of a field!) And I was worried that a thunderhead would open up above me. So I came home lol. This event has to be some sort of thunderstorm record for Auk, surely?

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 02/10/2006 21:59

spwill wrote:Photo, Heavy shower/storm moving across Auckland area early afternoon.

wonderful pics spwill. Make those south islanders jealous.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 02/10/2006 22:06

Cameo1 wrote: I was at the park getting a view (in the middle of a field!) And I was worried that a thunderhead would open up above me. So I came home lol.

Thats the best reason I could ever have read to stay!!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 02/10/2006 22:20

Looking toward central Auckland from the Airport about 2pm today, rumbles of thunder from this cloud.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 02/10/2006 23:45

I bet spwill you're sick of everyone telling how great your photos are?

Had a good thunderstorm this evening at around 7.20pm, strike rate up to 33 per minute, and rain rate to 144mm/hr.

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Tue 03/10/2006 00:00

03Stormchaser wrote:
Cameo1 wrote: I was at the park getting a view (in the middle of a field!) And I was worried that a thunderhead would open up above me. So I came home lol.
Thats the best reason I could ever have read to stay!!

Yep, 03, totally agree! All those storms are screaming to be CHASED!

Poor things! They'll be feeling unappreciated....

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 03/10/2006 00:30

This upper trough sure is meeting a heck of a lot of moisture just northeast of Gisborne.

Rain returning here, BoP thunderstorms have eased as they hit the Kaimai/Coromandel Ranges.

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Tue 03/10/2006 07:09

We got a bit of action around 1.30am, but aside from a short heavy shower and the occasional CC and much rarer CG it wasn't as spectacular as I'd hoped. All over in about 15 minutes.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 03/10/2006 07:20

Morning cb over Auckland - looks to be clearing up today

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 03/10/2006 08:21

stunning CB's over the waitaks this morning...looks like a nuclear bomb went off!

Expecting more action here today

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Tue 03/10/2006 11:10

Andrew Massie wrote:
03Stormchaser wrote: Thats the best reason I could ever have read to stay!!
Yep, 03, totally agree! All those storms are screaming to be CHASED! Poor things! They'll be feeling unappreciated....

You guys are crazy!!!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 03/10/2006 14:31

Thunderstorms clearing here, but what an awesome sky out there today!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 03/10/2006 15:34

Drying out here.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Tue 03/10/2006 18:06

yeah nice looking pics spwill! cloudy and raining here.
was just light stuff this morning but in the last couple of hours it has seemed to fire up and become quite heavy.
temp at around 12C

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Wed 04/10/2006 17:20

Today was quite nice - it started with some attractive cbs around over Auckland in the morning and a great looking chain of cbs in the afternoon

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 04/10/2006 18:40

Some nice convection after 3.30pm out to our east as the sky cleared.

Graeme's bottom two photo's show it well,

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NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 04/10/2006 19:09

You have a good vantage point for cloud photography from your position at Northcote Graeme.

Should perhaps have been thunder today.

Add in another picture here of a high topped cuform glaciating around Auckland this afternoon. This cloud did not reach the thunderstorm stage.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 07/10/2006 14:14

hi
have been away, school holidays, took the kids on holiday
was up at coromandel township, visiting the driving creek railway (great !) and i noticed this finger funnel cloud developing....but it did not develop any more, from a CB just north of waiheke island area....the rain free base area had all this rapidly changing hanging down cloud area (wall lcloud),and the finder funnel (start of a tornado) developed there...you can just make it out in the zoomed in a bit photo
this was on wedensday

sorry not a better photo (only 4.1m pixels)