Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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From metservice:
"In some exposed areas on the east coast from the eastern hills of Wellington to about Tokomaru Bay also parts of Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula, winds are likely to reach gale with gusts to around 130 km/h for a time." :shock:

Yay bring it on, I'm on study break now so will be home to see what unfolds. If its just a gale then I'd say gusts up to 100km/h but if there are squally showers as well, isolated incidents of 130km/h could happen. (Hopefully here)
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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We dont need SW Gales Theyll blow the windows in and pine trees down :twisted:
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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slowly getting stronger here, baro dropping steadily
could be a doozy....will have to wait and see
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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The wind is already picking up, I see it is gusting 61km/h already at your station Brian. I did expect some showers this evening, but sadly, there has been nothing here. Maybe more showery tomorrow, gales looking imminent but still don't know about severe gusts over Auckland. Will have to just wait...

Strange how the weather warning states possible gusts to 120km/h yet the marine warning has only 50knots. Would have thought it would have been stronger over the sea than over the land. :-k
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Evil here :cry:
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Maybe MS were joking? SW only gusting 40kmh here which is weaker than it was 5 hrs ago. And I don;t know whats up with these showers, it rains for 3 seconds then stopped and then poured for another 3 seconds, etc. Only 3mm so far which is not really much use to the ground :?
Obviously the gale is going to arrive with a vengeance (like the one last Nov)?
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Some beefy showers overnight, 8mm
and gusts to 43 kts (80kmh)
wind still W to WSW, and baro bottomed out now/////wind not as bad as forecasted
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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just had a brief hail shower go through
I see the breakfast news was talking about the 130kmh gusts that could cause damage in the Auckland area today....I think met service should get cancellations out earlier of warnings like that...but it is squally in the showers, but nothing out of the ordinary
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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some wintry looking Cbs around today, especially out in the western skies. Still gales could come in but looking unlikely now. Sunny here atm.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Not much wind here, mostly in the mod to fresh range.
Cool, 11C with a few brief heavy showers.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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some big CB showers are lining up now to my SW...the low is still deepening off the NI east coast....so its not over yet...
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Yes, the satellite pic looks interesting.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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The deepest instability will just make Auckland by the looks so could be a rumble or two out there this morning. Certainly some heavy showers.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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I went and watched a very dark cloud approach here, and it absolutely poured for 4 minutes with small wintry type hail for about a minute or so, and some slightly squally winds too :mrgreen:
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Very heavy showers at the moment at our Albany depot.
We have gone on storm alert at work for the Vector electricity network.

Temperature has dropoped a lot too. see what happens today
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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We have gone on storm alert at work for the Vector electricity network.
but there is no storm
just a typical strong SWer,only gale force in the showers
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Manukau heads observer wrote:
We have gone on storm alert at work for the Vector electricity network.
but there is no storm
just a typical strong SWer,only gale force in the showers
Bit of thunder here in the last 10 minutes.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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i took storm alert to mean storm force winds, not thunderstorms ;)
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Had a thunderstorm come through from the south at about 10. Looked black as, as it came up. Was the first shower of the day to come from the south and the temp plumeted with it. Had hail mixed with heavey rain being wind driven for over an hour and probably had a solid 15-20mm out of it judging by how much the swimming pool came up. Had some strong wind with it too. So im happy :)
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Heavy hail storm just at the moment in CHCH CDB. :shock:
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Heavy hail storm just at the moment in CHCH CDB.
Missed that - working at Boys High. Had plenty of squally rain showers though, but looks like easing now. (ie no showers in last 1/2 hour) Wintry & Stormy in parts of NI according to news - snow on Desert Road & Waiouru and Cooks Strait ferries disrupted by big seas.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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wind has eased here last hour and we have clearing skies
its all over, up this way, before it even started, LOL
Nice looking CB way to the NE of auckland city at the moment
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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A day of two halfs here.
Showery morning, sunny afternoon and 17C.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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The SW are actually increasing since the suns been out here.
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Re: Strong southwest flow, 14 Nov

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Long range weather is looking quite good, early start to summer ?
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