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Re: Lots of lightning

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The storm's gone silent, as it moves over Palmerston North, from the W. :(
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Its been a beautiful sunny calm morning here after another 8mm and gusts to 60km/h overnight. :D
Too bad it isn't going to stay that way.
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Re: Lots of lightning

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Yes, apart from the fact that we don't need any more rain, I think we've done pretty well out of this low in terms of sunshine so far and lots more to come by the looks - beats anti-cyclonic gloom any day!
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talking to locals, that 4:30pm CB yesterday afternoon dropped 2.5cm hail 10 minutes south of me! :wave:
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Manukau heads observer wrote:talking to locals, that 4:30pm CB yesterday afternoon dropped 2.5cm hail 10 minutes south of me! :wave:
Brian, is that hail of 2.5cm diameter or perhaps smaller hail to a depth of 2.5cm in 10 minutes?

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2.5cm diameter is what I have been told (by the mechanic at the Matakawau Garage, he said it was very loud on the roof!)
he said some was even up to 3cm!
(which is about as big as you get around here!)
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Cold westerlies, hail and Big CB's passing overhead at work this morning.

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Some lightning to the east when I arrived at 4am...

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Manukau heads observer wrote:2.5cm diameter is what I have been told (by the mechanic at the Matakawau Garage, he said it was very loud on the roof!)
he said some was even up to 3cm!
(which is about as big as you get around here!)
Thats pretty much golf ball size isnt it?
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nice photo that Drew =D>
re the hail, they did think about collecting it and then topping up the party ice bags with it (which gives you an indication straight away of the size and chunkiness!)
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Thanks.

Here is the same cloud form about 15 mins later.

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Awesome pics Drew.
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Wow! Thanks Brian.

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sudden hail shower here just now :)
(pea size)
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Had a shower come through with tiny hail about 10 mins ago. Blue sky above us now but just heard 2 very distant rumbles. Cant work out if it is the shower that has been through or the next one coming.
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Nev wrote:Yes, apart from the fact that we don't need any more rain, I think we've done pretty well out of this low in terms of sunshine so far and lots more to come by the looks - beats anti-cyclonic gloom any day!
I agree with you about the sun. Problem here is the March-Aug rainfall is rapidly approaching an all-time record and this city of banks and slips doesn't cope well with that. It would be much better if its mean rainfall were at least 200mm lower. That's not as silly as it sounds - over one 30-year span, 1906-1935, the average was only 1065mm against the longterm 1245.
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nearly every shower today has been laced with hail. Had one with good sized hail and even coated the ground. The last shower had some very strong winds. i dont have a weather station but judging by the gum trees it was stronger than the winds we were getting from the bomb low.
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Re: Lots of lightning

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some very loud thunder here 10mins ago, none on the tracker though...?
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Re: Lots of lightning

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Just got caught in a hail shower on the motorbike....not nice when your on two wheels :lol:

Loud clap about 10mins ago too..

Go the all blacks and rowing crews for 2nite _b
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yes, a loud clap of thunder from this Cb passing just SW of here.
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The winds this winter havent been too windy except on the odd day even though its been a wet winter.
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Pretty ordinary day here...no hail or thunder, just the odd brief light shower around, and plenty of sunshine. Perhaps I'll hear some thunder this evening or tonight :-k
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Re: Lots of lightning

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nice looking CB on the rain radar heading for the auckland area at the moment....some lightning activity
wind gone NNE here ahead of it even
(great rowing by the twins in getting gold!!)
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Had some beauts of Cb's pass by Hamilton this afternoon.. mammatus and great thick anvils in the isolated cells. :smile:

Still looking unstable from tomorrow evening especially as the coldest part of the long wave trough swings over.
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Re: Lots of lightning

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a remote weather station I had set up got hit by lightning down the phone line a few weeks back..I finally managed to get a chance to see the damage
you can see black soot out of the vents on the modem too!
the cover on the usb to serial adaptor was blown off!
the PC does not go anymore either....:(
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Manukau heads observer wrote:...
you can see black soot out of the vents on the modem too!
the cover on the usb to serial adaptor was blown off!
the PC does not go anymore either....:(
Yeah, probably just a minor consequence of 40,000 amps... #-o :-w :lol:
(I know, not a DIRECT hit, but still...these things happen with lightning...) Nice pic!
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