Labour Weekend Low, 20th-24th

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:21

extremely heavy rain here

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:27

Good lightning showing up on that line to the north too

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 15:29

yes, the CB's in the kaipara area are getting real lightning active...and they should move down this way!

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:35

Silly metservice has changed their forcast for Auckland to showers

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 15:37

the main front has gone through, and now we have shower lines in behind it
but maybe periods of rain might be a better to use than showers....
or even just changeable with rain and showers...

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:44

We had a nice gust front cross the area in the last half hour followed by showery rain.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:44

these cb's are developing really well over northland now. Quite a strong line has just gone onto land in the last hour, just north of kaipara.

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:45

Yeah, It's raining here at the moment. It seems that when ever metservice forcasts a high risk for ts's we get nothing and when a low risk is forcast we get everything

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:46

I wouldn't call that gust front very spectacular. No more than 40km/h winds here. And rained heavily only 10 mins

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:47

The Lightning is up over Northland where they have had some heating.
No sun here at all today.

Here's a pic of the shower line moving onto the city but the heavy rain was very brief here, now just mod rain.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:52

Manukau heads observer wrote:the main front has gone through, and now we have shower lines in behind it
but maybe periods of rain might be a better to use than showers....
or even just changeable with rain and showers...

I always thought the term 'Rain' was only used if associated with stratiform cloud, and 'showers' with cumuliform cloud.

Edit, (in a forecast)

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Mon 23/10/2006 15:53

Heavy rain here at the moment.

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 15:54

yeah, i was thinking more along the lines of the publics take on it

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Mon 23/10/2006 17:00

Starting to look quite interesting to the north, Tcu going up, some distant anvil, and an hour or two of sunlight left!

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 17:18

north auckland (east coast bays and north of there or so) has has some strikes in the last little bit

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Mon 23/10/2006 17:32

Thunderstorm development has moved in a SE direction from mid Northland down into Warkworth area along that line this afternoon.

The MetService convective outlook has been very good today but no Thunder over AK.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Mon 23/10/2006 18:43

Dull with drizzly showers at times on Banks Peninsula today. (+ 1 briefly heavier shower about 3.30pm) Hasn't been showing up on Canterbury radar - maybe cloud's too low.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 23/10/2006 18:46

Quite a distinct line of t/cu and cb visible from here through the west/northwest.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Mon 23/10/2006 18:54

oooh its getting dark to the NW now.....

prolly just heavy rain i'd say

Cameo1 · Unread post by **Cameo1** » Mon 23/10/2006 18:55

NZstorm wrote:Quite a distinct line of t/cu and cb visible from here through the west/northwest.

Yes I noticed that too Nzstorm. Looked quite picturesque for a moment didn't it?

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Mon 23/10/2006 19:45

Had half hour of very intense rain here in Swanson mid afternoon. Rest of day mainly moderate rain with a few sunny spells.

Got very humid before the downpour, was a mini version of the deluge a couple of weeks back, if it lasted another 2 hours it might have matched it.

Standing by for more action

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 19:48

mama clouds from that CB line, 5:30pmish

uretiti · Unread post by **uretiti** » Mon 23/10/2006 21:25

Hi all havn't posted for a bit, but can tell u from the winterless city of Waipu, has been pretty good all day, then....around 4 it started raining, thundering along with lightning, then i thought someone had chucked a handfull of golf balls on the roof...bbut no......hail...... and temp dropped to 9deg here..............., hailed for maybe a minute then just the occasional hail stone being chucked down for about half an hr......wierd, now at nearly 9.30 is quite calm outside.......maybe the calm before the storm.......

Manukau heads obs · Mon 23/10/2006 21:50

you can see that calm period here:
http://ps.gen.nz/~richkids/brynderwyn.htm

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 23/10/2006 22:45

Had a good downpour come thru around 5.40.. rain rate got up to 3.4mm/minute

and it was gusty then too.

Wind still north northeasterly here, baro dropping below 1000mb shortly.