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Friday, weekend Canterbury Thunderstorm risk 08-
Looks like it may well be our first decent thunder storm day. As long as the change doesnt come thru early. Upper air is very cold, good bit of moisture in the air, NE before the change and fingers crossed! 

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Re: Friday, weekend Thunderstorm risk 08-
niiiiice03Stormchaser wrote:Looks like it may well be our first decent thunder storm day. As long as the change doesnt come thru early. Upper air is very cold, good bit of moisture in the air, NE before the change and fingers crossed!


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Would have to agree, thunderstorms looking good for this Friday afternoon and or evening. Ideally would be good if some bubbled up before the change so they don't go anywhere too fast, and that looks like happening. But there should be some with the change of course to and I'm sure they'll be good to watch.
Hopefully the models stay consistent as they have the past few days.
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Hopefully the models stay consistent as they have the past few days.

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Thought about chasing them!Foggy Hamilton wrote:Sure are some strong thunderstorms 700km WSW of Invercargill this evening.

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That band of thunderstorms was travelling at a fair notch, and remained very thundery at it touched the SW of Fiordland at around 5am.Thought about chasing them!
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MS is going for a low risk tomorrow
but as long as we get some good sunshine before hand I would be looking at a high risk.
Great day today started off cool but warmed up quick when the sun appeared around lunchtime.
Light NE for most of the morning turned fresh gusty NW by afternoon then a very breif SW windchange now back to very light NE winds.
By the way where is John these days
we need perhaps another thunder scale number for tomorrow
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Great day today started off cool but warmed up quick when the sun appeared around lunchtime.
Light NE for most of the morning turned fresh gusty NW by afternoon then a very breif SW windchange now back to very light NE winds.
By the way where is John these days


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It looks quite promising to me. It looks to be one of those days which will either go off majorly or not at all, depending largely on the meso-scale airflow and whether or not some moisture gets in off the sea. I'm picking it will, which should set things up nicely. I'd be looking for most action around early afternoon from convection, with perhaps somewhat less chance with the wind change during the evening.
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TonyT wrote:It looks quite promising to me. It looks to be one of those days which will either go off majorly or not at all, depending largely on the meso-scale airflow and whether or not some moisture gets in off the sea. I'm picking it will, which should set things up nicely. I'd be looking for most action around early afternoon from convection, with perhaps somewhat less chance with the wind change during the evening.
Looks like metservice have written off Tstorms for Canterbury. I still think there is a chance something will happen. Could earlier see some good Cu out off the coast.
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