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Still another cb making its way over the city, had hail and heavy rain about 3:15pm had to run for cover, good to hear loud earth shaking rumbles for a 2nd day in a row! Canterbury home of Thunderstorms!!

YES! for a change its out turn down here to have our storm instead of you northlanders heavy rain falling now with speradics

Rain quite heavy here with 2 to 4mm hail and a temperature of 10.6C at 6pm, wind almost calm. 0.4mm recorded in the last 10 minutes.

The sky was somewhat ominous a couple of hours before the storm hit in Christchurch

Finally one of those black clouds opened up over me. No thunder though.

I was working at Hillmorton when the storm hit - well it hit other parts of Chch. I heard some thunder and the clouds looked mean, but only experienced a few large raindrops. Coming back home to central Chch, the roads were dry, so the heaviest precipitation must not have hit near where I live. (near the Antigua Boatsheds) A rain shower arrived not long after I got home at about 6pm.

Here's another pic prior to the downpour

Got some late pics before and managed to catch our storm CB out east.
Interesting to hear thunder 2 days in a row for November something I would expect to see more in mid December xmas time.
So does this mean an interesting storm season ahead lets hope so.
Cheers
Jason.

Storms were ok'ish today, but probably because I was working and couldn't really get out there amoungst it . Still, I get the feeling they weren't that great.

Saw a flash of forked lightning but that was it, heard a few booms of thunder to. I think a little further north into the plains than from my position here in Templeton would've been better.

Took a few photo's and will put them up tomorrow.

Missed out on the other ones on Sunday to! Otherwise I wouldn't taken a drive down to Ashburton etc, however Steven Graham mentioned alot of rain and cloudy conditions meant things weren't overly impressive. But the build up and start of the storm there in Ashburton I think could've been good.

Ciao

Well i guess i did abit of storm chasing myself Aaron as it was quite fluky i was driving home from work and ended up going right in the direction of the storm and going directly underneath the storm with my car getting pounded by good pea size hail
I reckon if i hadn't of left (QE2 work) i would have missed it.
Was a wack day today!

Here are a few shots of the storm which passed to the north of
Templeton. I saw a couple of lightning flashes through the fallstreaks and heard half a dozen rumbles of thunder.

The convection was probably enhanced by convergence at the time the coldest upper air arrived, with a light S-SW here but a NE reported at the airport as confirmed by the direction the aircraft is heading.

Great pics! Sure glad I wasn't in the plane....

VERY good pics Steven. It looked a lot angrier than it turned out to be, unfortunately!

Excellent pics!

This time yesterday it was 9 degrees with thundery activity and hail and now I'm nudging 26 on a gloriously warm NW Canterbury day...oh loving the extremes!

Nice stuff Steven, similar view from here looking north. We got a good downpour and hail so I wouldnt completely right that storm off Andrew!!

03Stormchaser wrote:Nice stuff Steven, similar view from here looking north. We got a good downpour and hail so I wouldnt completely right that storm off Andrew!!

Yeah..... but some of us rate good storms on voltage generation!

It wasn't the biggest storm iv experienced obviously but the hail was reasonable and the lightning and thunder.
Well the thunder i don't think i have heard so loud in a while. the more the better i say!

Awesome pics up there...

Looks like the westerlies are on the way out and NW's in tomorrow...

Maybe a fine but cool weekend ahead...

Hmm, my pics aren't that great. And a bit of a reflection on one to as I took one or two from inside.

Great pics there Steven indeed, makes me think I should be getting a new camera one of these days soon.

Cheers

In Marlborough for a short break. Cloudy and mild with some sunny patches, quite warm in Blenheim. A few strong wind gusts on the Blenheim-Picton highway but nothing to scare a Wellingtonian . So far the "big blow" hasn't eventuated at this end of the province - may be different from Grassmere south, can't tell from here.

Beaut day here in Christchurch today, very warm this morning.
According too metservice it got up to 24C today i would have thought it may have been a bit warmer then that anyway was a good day.
Tomorrow looks too be abit colder.
Id say possible storms tomorrow with the wind change?

Looks like a messy low to cross the country in the next 24hrs with rain for most areas. A high chance of thunder on the SI West Coast, just a low chance elsewhere I think. (high chance in Canterbury if the southerly hits after 12pm)

Looks to be a high chance of thunderstorms over the North Island ranges Friday.

Looks to be a high chance of thunderstorms over the North Island ranges Friday.

could be our best chase day chance of the spring so far, before xmas?

could be our best chase day chance of the spring so far, before xmas?

Yes. Hopefully we get some unstable weather in December.

It will be unstable over the Xmas-New Year break

NZstorm wrote:

could be our best chase day chance of the spring so far, before xmas?

Yes. Hopefully we get some unstable weather in December.