Icy flick 8-10th October

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 10/10/2006 12:21

I have a report of a massive hailstorm in ellerslie from my better half....anyone out there?

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:01

Had a belt on thunder on the shore - nothing for the past 20 minutes or so. Heavy cold showers moving through here.

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:04

Another round of thunder here.

Just skyped my other half who is working in Newmarket, who had a bit of hail but not much.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:07

Sunny in Chch but cumulus now looks to be darkening to the southwest.

Well those clouds delivered a few spits, plus I thought I saw a tiny bit of small hail or sleet. Sunny again now.

Reports of snow to low levels around Greymouth and Westport - that sounds unusual for October.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:25

Saw that north shore storm on my run up mt eden just now. Very very windy...where is michael today???

So thunder is definitely appearing further north than the metservice predicted.

Desert Road is closed and heavy snow reported at Ohakune and National Park townships. This is packing some punch...like I said yesterday its a bit more significant than a 'flick'!

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:32

EDIT...I see Metservice altered their warning at 1pm

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:37

Hail stones upto 15mm observed in Mt Wellington just after middday.

Paul Mallinson · Unread post by **Paul Mallinson** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:47

Interesting report of 15mm hail. Good observation to have. Radar hail algorithim indicated 10-12mm hail.

The convective depth has gone just a bit deeper than anticipated - assisted by higher dew points up over Auckland Northland way than further south.

Paul

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:48

Desert Road is closed and heavy snow reported at Ohakune and National Park townships. This is packing some punch...like I said yesterday its a bit more significant than a 'flick'!

Looks like it has melted at Ohakune, but interestingly, Taupo was only 4C at 1pm, with 1.2mm of precip in previous hour.

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:52

Photo from a firend of some of that Mt Wellington hail... not quite 15mm there but lots of it!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 10/10/2006 13:55

Squally Thunderstorm passed over my location near the Airport at about 11.45 am with a burst of small hail stones (around 5mm size).
On the drive back to Mt Eden I noticed larger stones lying on the side of the Motorway, perhaps up to about 1cm size.

Photo- looking west mid morn, this Cb was part of the line that crossed Ak area around lunch time

Paul Mallinson · Unread post by **Paul Mallinson** » Tue 10/10/2006 14:17

spwill wrote:Squally Thunderstorm passed over my location near the Airport at about 11.45 am with a burst of small hail stones (around 5mm size).
On the drive back to Mt Eden I noticed larger stones lying on the side of the Motorway, perhaps up to about 1cm size.

Great. Thanks.

paul

Manukau heads obs · Tue 10/10/2006 16:02

near Papakura this arvo, big clap of thunder in one of those squally Cb's, rick's boltec showed it in karaka area...good!

borris89 · Unread post by **borris89** » Tue 10/10/2006 16:03

smal 5 min showers of very soft hail here in hastings close to 3pm. some big Cb's around tho could get more which isnt good for the orchards

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 10/10/2006 16:05

More hail here now but very small ( 2-4mm size).

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Tue 10/10/2006 16:17

We got that too, ripped through the central city with much noise and bluster, but passed thru quickly. Enough to turn the world white briefly

What an interesting couple of weeks we are having

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Tue 10/10/2006 16:28

Just blowing a gale here... Can someone turn it off... My Tomatoe plants are devestated...

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Tue 10/10/2006 16:55

Strange weather today some nice towering CU came through at about midday and what could be falling from this CU but Sleet very close to flaking

. To add to that it wasn't even cold but shows you how glaciated and cold the atmosphere must be.
Maybe a few more icy showers overnight as there is some icy looking showers on the horizons now.
Cheers
Jason.

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Tue 10/10/2006 17:33

Report of snow in Wellington http://www.vorb.org.nz/ftopict-48212.html

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Tue 10/10/2006 17:34

Snow in Lower and Upper Hutt...

Here is the view to the South of here...

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 10/10/2006 18:43

Snow in Lower and Upper Hutt...

Trademe Forum reports of the white stuff in Masterton, Wainuiomata and Wellington hill suburbs too - funnily, news item had just said that Wellington had escaped the stormy weather that was plaguing other parts of North Island.
Only 7C at Awhitu at 4pm - were you getting hail Brian?

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

Interesting report of 15mm hail. Good observation to have. Radar hail algorithim indicated 10-12mm hail.

Most of the hail was 10-12mm, just the odd bigger stone. Picture here of stone measured at 15mm.

Midday sounding indicates cb tops to around 6000m.

Manukau heads obs · Tue 10/10/2006 19:13

another good hail shower gone through here, parts of auckland should be getting that now

just mill of the run size for here

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Tue 10/10/2006 19:40

Just put on a jersey and sox....OMG....its only 10Â° here

Brrrrrrrrr

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Tue 10/10/2006 19:56

Haha...you must live in Auckland!

We're happy when we can take them off down here!