High Pressure to dominate mid November

[Willoughby]

Thunderstorm has developed within the last hour right on around Kuratau, Lake Taupo.

Nice view of it here, but very cold looking in nature.

Edit: Some fresh towers pulling up through that Cb so not bad at all!

[jamie]

yea i could see one doing that when i finished milking and was washing the yard down a few minutes ago. Must be pretty pretty darn big if that is the one im seeing from all the way up here in Taupiri and its down near Taupo.

[jamie]

Just been up on a hill looking south and there is the massive anvil cloud that take up a huge perportion of the sky with new Cu's blowing everywhere within in it, which i suspect is the one down by toupo and then there is a new Cb developing what looks to be more out the Rotorua ways.
So its a good looking southern sky from where i was looking.

[NZstorm]

Yes, can see distant thunderheads to far SSE.

[NZstorm]

There's a lightning active storm in the Bay of Plenty currently. The stuff further west in southern Waikato looks to have weakened out.

[David]

Wow Bay of Plenty getting some action, 13mm in the last hour at Tauranga, 16mm in an intense burst at Tokoroa, now that it's holidays for 9 weeks, where's our action Garden all drying up again after 1.8mm in the last 6 days, I wonder if the climate outlook on TV1 weather tonight is wrong, but I wouldn't mind seeing some summer heavy rains.
Anyway, where's this action stuff going?

[kaimaikid]

Ha Ha - got front row seats as each cell passes over my house - mainly ctc with the odd ctg but virtually all forked not sheet, no hail yet though....

while I remember - the correlated stormvue is the most accurate...
http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/SVcorrelated.html

only 14mm in last hour...

[NZstorm]

I see one rain gauge at Tauranga recording 28mm in under an hour. Reports of hail too.
I guess BOP had the sunnier warmer weather today which provided the convective energy as well as a converging onshore wind.

[spwill]

Did consider a drive south today, perhaps I should have gone.
GFS suggests thundery weather for the north later next week if that can be believed.

[tgsnoopy]

Storm is finally letting up here. Lots of Cells, mainly CC not many CG. Small (5mm diameter) hail at times. Good stuff. Next time lets hope I know in advance and can get out and enjoy it. This one lasted about 3 hours and caused lots of surface flooding.

[ricky]

while I remember - the correlated stormvue is the most accurate...
http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/SVcorrelated.html

Remember I have the local correlated one here too for just Akl and Ham.. http://www.greylynnweather.net/Correlated.html

[jamie]

i heard on the radio this morning that the Mt and Tauranga got hit by a good one with large amounts of hail and a street being flooded.
We could also see all the lightning in the distant from that storm which was neat to see at night.

[jamie]

Clouds building a few kms to the west with a dark bottom already. But MS dont have any thunderstorm potential anywhere today. May not be a thunderstorm but its a convective shower which is nice.. keep things cool and wet.

[Manukau heads obs]

i was surprised to see we got rain overnight (which was welcome)