Severe Weather - N/Island - Early July

[Peter]

See Metservice has a severe t-storm watch out for the N/Island, and is forecasting high risk for t-storms for today & tomorrow - thought this might need a separate thread. Lightning trackers showing an increase in activity in the Tasman throughout this morning. Correlated now showing 304 strikes in the last hour.

[Willoughby]

Yes - big N/S line of thunderstorms from Westport to west of Kaipara at present. New Plymouth will should see the line at around 1pm i'd imagine.

Cloudy with showers here now and 13C, dewpoint's great at 12C.

[spwill]

A good looking line of thunderstorms with that front.
Locations south of Ak along the west coast look more in the firing esp Taranaki.
Mild 16C dewpoint 12C here, may see some development over the land with the Front ?

[David]

Wow gusting 69km/h at Grahams Beach, just a breeze here, high gust for the day 31km/h.
I see the harbours have a squall warning, gusts to 60knots.

[Area51]

Hokitika had thunderstorm activity at midday and Palmerston North at 1300.

[Vertigo]

nice suprise, this front

edit: rain just arrived here in a big way! looks like a lot of hail in those Cbs

[Manukau heads obs]

was working on a fence on an exposed hill side on the coastal side... in the last hour...difficult to stand up!...gusting to 50 kts...
a good looking cb went down the coastline...big mama clouds and all as it approached...
yes, raglan to taranaki getting the best cb's!
gusts to 57 knots at the manukua heads, from the nowcasting

[Willoughby]

Lightning activity sure has flat lined over the last 30 minutes...

[spwill]

Line weakened as it moved in,some TStorms along the west coast from about Wiatomo south. Also a thundery Cb out to sea just to our W currently, looks to be some heavy showers yet to come through here.
Edit. I see strikes also along the Ak/ North Wikato coastline

[Vertigo]

foggy, looks like the majority of the severe thunderstorms are moving inland from taranaki to south of taupo

[Manukau heads obs]

lightning close....just to the SW of me....nice CB passing just to my SW...very black

[spwill]

Looks to have been recent storms from Manakau Heads down the coast through west Waikato.

[Manukau heads obs]

reports of tornado like damage in waiuku from the 3:30pm front...trees blown down, etc...certainly was heavy rain there at the time (5mm in a about 3 minutes or so by the looks!)
also the local paper reported that a house near pukekohe (buckland) last tuesday had its windows blown in when a lightning hit the tree next to the house...also some bamboo was caught alight in Akaaka too last week ...

[TokWW]

Photo on the TV1 news tonight of a lightning bolt on the edge of town at Greymouth - in the 6:25 slot but likely to show again at 6:50 Just heavy rain showers here in Tokoroa this afternoon - got a lift home in a car..., the bike stayed at work!! Still 10.7/9.9 ... winds have been medium this afternoon - max gust 30kts, max 1 min ave 23kts.

Graeme

[NZstorm]

Working in Manurewa today and saw one flash of lightning to the SW about 4pm then got a very heavy shower for about 5mins.

[tgsnoopy]

Sigh, still no lightning observed in Tauranga. Got a cold dark front come through about 5pm but that was all.

[Manukau heads obs]

getting a nice clustering of lightning strikes in that cb out to my west on the front, again!

[NZstorm]

Looks to be a narrow broken line of cb's out there this morning coming in fast. If the environment could warm up a bit here ahead of the front we would have a better chance of thunder over Auckland. Instability looks marginal with dewpoints forecast to rise to 14C and upper air only marginally cold.


Looking ahead to Saturday looks like a real wintry thundery cold pool to cross Auckland.

[Lawrence]

Looks very stormy over the divide from here

[ricky]

The front sure has become very sharp and squally looking on the radar.. picking up some lightning activity but nothing huge..
Nice temps here with the Northerly Flow.. 17.3 C with 13.8 C dewpoint now

[Manukau heads obs]

I could see a great looking CB start point on the line at one stage out to the far west
warming up all the time here, 17oC here now...wow...nice for winter

[spwill]

Sunny, 18C with dewpoint 13C. lovely conditions today, shame it wont last
Yes, that Front moving in is looking squally. Current thunderstorm activity is on track for southern Waikato south.

[Vertigo]

very, very heavy rain in that band, should be a good dampening. hopefully the land does warm a bit more, but the cloud cover is setting in...

[ricky]

It really did feel like summer walking back home through the park! 18.6 C now and the DP is climbing

[gllitz]

wow...the 1pm radar has the line stretching practically the length of the NI
And I see quite a few bits of red, too!

Should be fun...we want pics!!!