Northwesterly storm 10-12/08/07

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 11/08/2007 23:38

Amazing warmth today... up to 18C! Wet and windy night ahead with the leftovers of the front...

Oh, and it's always a nice sign spring is on it's way too...

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Sat 11/08/2007 23:46

I was at the beach earlier on tonight and was walking along when i saw a few flashes of lightning from the good old alps, has been a rather mild evening up til now and its SW and abit of rain coming in.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sun 12/08/2007 01:49

This is rather strange i just went outside and it was breifly sleeting with large drops slapping on the tin roof next door, it's about 5C i would say cold but hmm

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Those radars between 10pm-12am tonight looked interesting with some rather heavy rain in the mix there, would have been a thunderstorm if we were in October or November.
Cheers
Jason.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 12/08/2007 09:34

just had a couple of booms of thunder

sharp rain edge line moving on to the coast here now!

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 12/08/2007 09:36

Horizontal heavy rain is through... that was madness!!

Manukau heads obs · Sun 12/08/2007 09:53

close lightning, thunder shaking the whole house, hail, heavy rain driven by 35 knot winds
a great squall line!

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Sun 12/08/2007 09:55

Eagerly awaiting the front here now! looks great on radar

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 12/08/2007 10:05

Matamus here now with almost a pure SW 15Â°

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 12/08/2007 10:10

2 Second thunder!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 12/08/2007 10:12

Heavy rain arrived here now.
distant thunder clap to the SW.

C-Nimbus · Unread post by **C-Nimbus** » Sun 12/08/2007 10:13

Just bucketed down here in West Akl with one clap of thunder

all came thru very quick and its pretty much over now as I type.

Lawrence · Unread post by **Lawrence** » Sun 12/08/2007 11:38

Not a cloud in the sky here now after a good downpour over night,baro 997mb and rising,temp 7.8c,dew point 8.0c,RH 96% and falling,wind light North Easterly.

We await the next front

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Sun 12/08/2007 15:10

Possible heavy showers coming through later, with hail and strong cold SW if it happens lol
Been quite a nice day here really the wind has picked up a little though and is fresh

southernthrash · Unread post by **southernthrash** » Sun 12/08/2007 15:51

Gary Roberts wrote:Yep, a bit of lightning over the divide last night. We got some rain and much of the snow that was evident before it is now gone. I'd say Lake Ohau's season is almost done for. Good to hear the more southern fields got some. They've had absolutely bugger-all this season. People were saying Ohau had the best conditions and even they were scratching to keep it going, so I'd hate to think how crappy the fields were down Central way. Oh well, at least a bunch of skiers were unhappy, that's the main thing.

how ignorant and pessimistic. The snow season has only just begun... how long have you lived in omarama?

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Sun 12/08/2007 16:24

southernthrash wrote:how ignorant and pessimistic. The snow season has only just begun... how long have you lived in omarama?

Settle back with the chips and ale folks, this could be quite entertaining...

gllitz · Unread post by **gllitz** » Sun 12/08/2007 16:42

I've got my bleacher seats!!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 12/08/2007 16:51

I think I'll go back to my morris dancing

JohnGaul
NZTS

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Sun 12/08/2007 17:06

TonyT wrote:how ignorant and pessimistic. The snow season has only just begun... how long have you lived in omarama?

Settle back with the chips and ale folks, this could be quite entertaining...

Damned right!

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 12/08/2007 17:21

southernthrash wrote:how ignorant and pessimistic. The snow season has only just begun... how long have you lived in omarama?

Hi! Welcome to the forum! It's lovely to meet you too.

"Pessimistic"? I take it that getting snow is important to you?

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Sun 12/08/2007 17:28

<Grabbing my bucket, towel, drink bottle, little stool and settling in Gary's corner> "Use the JAB, Gary!"

Lawrence · Unread post by **Lawrence** » Sun 12/08/2007 17:39

Looking a bit stormy over to the south west,so to speak.....no honestly, it is

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 12/08/2007 17:50

Andrew Massie wrote:<Grabbing my bucket, towel, drink bottle, little stool and settling in Gary's corner> "Use the JAB, Gary!"

Nah mate, I'm guessing it's somebody from Ohau skifield and I have nothing against them. It's their customers I'm not fond of!

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 12/08/2007 18:50

KarshvardidgÃ¢h wrote:Looking a bit stormy over to the south west,so to speak.....no honestly, it is

Yes. i have been watching the development with interest.
JohnGaul
NZTS

Lawrence · Unread post by **Lawrence** » Sun 12/08/2007 20:18

Just started heavy rain here,wind has picked up from South Westerly 13kph,Baro 1002 and rising,temp 6.5c, dew 4.0c,RH 91% and rising

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sun 12/08/2007 21:00

Got a bit of a SW change wind squally type of thing, here, around 8:15pm
I took some photos of the developing cloud right through to dusk, but the battery needed recharging on the camera, hense the reason for not putting them up here.
It just shows you how boring the weather is here when one gets excited about this event

Sort of calmed off now.

JohnGaul
NZTS

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