Lots of lightning

[Manukau heads obs]

reports in that at 4:30am this morning the waiuku area was hit hard with thunder and lightning right overhead (shook houses !) and heavy rain
damage to phones (phone jacks blackened, anything connected to the phone lines also damaged and blackened), roadside phone junction boxes blown open even!)
on one street
pretty bad by the sounds of it

[kiwidad]

Have got some serious window rattling thunder going on here in the Horowhenua at the moment.And from the looks of the skies out there, it looks like it could intensify as the night goes on.

[GreggWard]

Have got some serious window rattling thunder going on here in the Horowhenua at the moment.And from the looks of the skies out there, it looks like it could intensify as the night goes on.

Kiwidad, I can see the lightning far off in the distance, to the W-SW of here. It looks like a reasonably lightning active storm, with lightning flashes every 20 - 30 seconds, at one stage.

[RODALCO]

Edsel street towards Millbrook rd, Henderson was white with hail this morning after the brief very active squal at 09.15 - 09.20 . The sky was nearly black prior to the stormsqual.

Murphy's law was that I forgot my camera today to take evidence, although it was mentioned on the 10 O'clock news on 1ZB.

[NZstorm]

more great looking isolated CB's around this arvo
(which seem to be developing over the land?)

Photo here of some cb anvils today.

[Manukau heads obs]

nice grouping of lightning strikes on a CB line to my WNW, heading towards the auckland area...should be here in a few hours or so from now

[drew]

Have had some mighty loud thunder and lots of lightning here this evening.

I ventured out to the local aero club moments ago, which has a wonderfull unobstructed vista to the north and west.
Iset up my canon to try and capture some of the lighting, but I was too late!! lol.
The front passed over and a torrential downpour ensued!

Home now slightly dissapointed, but determined to get some good shots from there in the future.

Zap-o-meter snapped before.


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Drew

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, I tracked those taranaki strikes good from here too
is that 2nd screen shot of your boltec/nexstorm?
do you have that available on a web site at all (and so able to be used for the combined/correlated)?

[NZstorm]

There's a few strikes over inland Otago/Southland which is a bit unusual. Maybe its elevated stuff.

[drew]

No sorry - the images are gleened from another website...

I have been pricing up an LD-250, and have a couple of old PC's in the shed, either which would run it fine.
Sadly, two kids, two cars, and the mortgage doesnt leave much toy money.

Maybe next year.

Drew

[Manukau heads obs]

but, so, is there a boltex/nexstorm in taranaki?
what is the URL to that?
thanks!

[spwill]

Have see some very distant lightning out to our SW.

[GraemeWi]

but, so, is there a boltex/nexstorm in taranaki?
what is the URL to that?
thanks!

Looks like the co-related view? The cross-hair is in the same place

[drew]

Again, sorry, the images are snapped from the Weather Watch center "Lightning Radar" (detector) page.

Just keen to share, but if its only obnoxious dribblings from a newbie, then perhaps I should sit back, watch and learn for a while?

oooooh - massive clap of thunder right now...

[Vertigo]

drew, no, by all means, post away i think brian just wanted to know if there was a new taranaki detector that we didnt know about

[GreggWard]

I agree. I definitely want to hear about what's going on in Taranaki. You certainly get a lot more thunderstorms than we do, down here in the Manawatu.

[GreggWard]

It now looks like the Auckland radar is down, along with the Wellington one.

[drew]

There are some huge, loud, long deep rumbles coming from the west, but no lighting to be seen yet! Its making the windows rattle a bit and sets off the dogs around the place each time...

I was out on the front porch with the canon, and only saw one flash (between shots!!)

Lots of little triangles and green lines all over the place.



AWSOME 8o

(I really do get a kick out of thunderstorms)

Drew

[ricky]

but, so, is there a boltex/nexstorm in taranaki?
what is the URL to that?
thanks!

That's Stevens correlation (possibly combined but I wouldn't use that!) at http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/SVcorrelated.html
correlating yours, mine, Foggy and Stevens data ..

[Manukau heads obs]

ah
it was just that it was centered over south taranaki, i was thinking it was a boltec/nexstorm station there

the combined though must through out some of the plots, because it does not include my electric fence strikes over the coromandel/BOP
i.e there must be some sort of check going on that another boltec station also plots in say a range of the same location?

that CB to our WNW is still active

[Manukau heads obs]

I got it now
its this one:
http://www.skywatcher.net.nz/weather/NZStormVue.html
after clicking on the zoom button!
(so then you do not see the overlaping outer circles!)

[C-Nimbus]

I really do get a kick out of thunderstorms

Your in the right place and welcome to the forum mate.

Latest RR (10.45pm) shows a narrow but heavy and quick moving line coming thru west auckland in around 20 mins or so. Should be some heavy rain and i see a few flashes to ze vest

Good to see a new member from the Naki, love the place personally, wonderful landscape and exciting weather.

[Manukau heads obs]

the CB that has been firing nicely over the last 4 hours to our WNW has gone alot quiter....now...just as it about to make landfall...typical...
might resurge again or a new one take its place....big area of rain/embedded cb's following it...
heading for the sack now meself...

[Vertigo]

first thunder of the night!

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, heard it here too
(just when I was about to hit the sack,LOL)