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Good blow here, some powerlines down on the next street from here( looks very dodgy) and the odd small tree branch down along my street-photo.

Yup that was around 1610 this arvo, only heard one clap of thunder from it though which was a shame - watched that cell scream across from the west as I was hurriedly unloading my b-train at the port...

My conditions at the mo are:

Current Weather Stopped raining
Current Temperature 11.0°C (51.8°F), Apparent temp 8.9 °C
Maximum Temperature (since 9am) 17.3 °C at: 14:48 PM
Minimum Temperature (since 9am) 10.9 °C at: 17:36 PM
Average windspeed (ten minute) 4.6 kmh (2.5 kts) Wind Direction (ten minute) S (172°)
Windchill Temperature 11.0°C Maximum Gust (last hour) 21.2 kmh (11.5 kts) at: 17:29 PM
Maximum Gust (since 9am) 42.1 kmh (22.7 kts) at: 8:31 AM
Maximum 1 minute average (since 9am) 38.1 kmh (20.6 kts) at: 8:31 AM
Rainfall (last hour) 1.6 mm Rainfall (since 9am) 9.3 mm (0.37 in.) at 17:33 PM
Rainfall This month 34.6 mm (1.36 in.) Rainfall To date this year 37.1 mm (1.46 in.)
Maximum rain per minute (last hour) 0.5 mm/min Maximum rain per hour (last 6 hours) 2.6 mm/hour
Yesterdays rainfall 25.3 mm DewPoint 5.9°C (Wet Bulb :8.6°C )
Humidity 71 %, Humidex 10.6 °C Barometer corrected to msl 990.0 hPa
Pressure change +0.3 hPa (last hour) Trend STEADY
Pressure change (last 12 hours) -5.9 hPa Pressure change (last 6 hours) -1.3 hPa

man it has gotten cold - some interesting looking cloud formations still hanging around too...

thats a decent sized branch there spwill!!

wind slowly abating here now...
looking around at various personal weather stations on land, most people got gusts to around 45 knots...

exposed coastal locations, 70 kts gusts or more...



i just love a good SW gale

Power has gone out here, winds have eased though.

just saw on 3 news the sky tower was evacuated due to it swaying in the wind!!

and to top it all off, we just had a car come flying through our farm fence an hour ago (driver had a diabetic low)

Have been told our power is off until about 8.30pm due to the weather

some good footage on the news of the damage in auckland!
the WSW wind is the worse wind for the city area....funnels through the manukau heads here

I notice the airport metar had a gust of 51knots.

at 4pm it was:

from the WSW (240 degrees) at 47 MPH (41 KT) gusting to 63 MPH (55 KT)

at the aiport

the airport is obviously very exposed to the WSW wind, sticking out into the manukau harbour as it does

I can remember in 1971 seeing a car flying along that main road near the church in Turakina on the lefthand side facing Wanganui and it flipped on its top

dija wrote:just saw on 3 news the sky tower was evacuated due to it swaying in the wind!!

and to top it all off, we just had a car come flying through our farm fence an hour ago (driver had a diabetic low)

The greater Auckland region fire service are flat out still attending storm damages with still hundreds of more calls backed up waiting for them...

There are branches and things everywhere. There was a fire engine just up the road doing something too. In weather like this we seem to get a southerly as the wind whips around the manukau heads so when you look up the lower level clouds were coming in from the south and the higher ones coming in from the west-southwest. It ends up being a funny mix, and very damaging down our south west facing street, that is lined with large London Plane Trees

i would say that there would have been exposed locations in your area that were getting gusts of 55 knots, a bit higher than I was here, due to the funneling effect of the waitakeres....

(its called the WSW squirt)

Ours was Westerly or a little north of it ie about 280 much of the day,then to the usual SW about 3.30pm then the big stuff was more SSW,now its the usual 230-240 SW

Wow those winds are insane!!

Reed switch seemed to have fixed itself Brian.. don't want that to happen again in an active squall line.

Just gusts to 30 knots about Hamilton today.

Very nippy tonight.

tich wrote:I've just been to the Trademe Forum, and a poster has just reported there's been a big hailstorm at Mt Maunganui, leaving a snow-like blanketing.

I have photo's on my work camera which I will bring home & post over the weekend.

Warming up quickly in Chch after the cold snap - shot up from about 0C to 15C in the 3 hours from 6am, and now it's 17C.

Yesterday's 6pm weather map showed very tight isobars around the low to the east of the North Island - I imagine central and eastern NI areas getting gales as well. And I was half expecting the Desert Road to be closed last night by snow and ice, with Waiouru obs only just above freezing. Snow levels I guess would've been unseasonably low in the central plateau.

Big rise in temps here today, under blue skies and warm NW winds.
0.0° - 26.4°

this week looks good too for some interesting weather patterns.....with humid and strong NW winds and active (hopefully still active when they get this far east) fronts/lows in the tasman

A photo of the manukau harbour during the WSW gales!
(from clarks beach (southern end),looking towards the city that someone emailed me)

beaut day here, brezzy NW wind though. warm with a temperature around 23C good beach weather might go after dinner.
Looking at the latest models Friday 17th is looking a little rough espeacailly
the west coast of the south island. interesting maybe?'

Bit more than a breeze out this way some gusts just sitting on gale force at times enough to rattle the house Also quite exposed next door with new houses in so funnels through quite nicly despite the dust .
Certainly is something there for Friday the 17th most likly looking at breif rain and NW gales at this stage heavy falls in the alps with thunderstorms perhaps. Overnight could be interesting though .
Cheers
Jason.

Still some very cold air in the subantarctic. Here's the Macquarie Island Webcam (accessed via weatherzone forums):

http://www.aad.gov.au/asset/webcams/macca/default.asp

Re Macquarie Island weather

Thickness down there today is 5119!
I can't recall a thickness that low down there this year.

The southerly front arriving here on Friday... A small amount of snow on the Tararuas arrived...