Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Storm Struck
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Forgot to mention slight risk of Thunder tomorrow night mainly south of Christchurch, but could be interesting to watch out for.
Storm chances usually increase about this time of the year, getting closer to show week :smile: .
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Tornado Tim
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Hey,
I stupidly deleted my storm account so that link that I posted before will not work.
I had to re-write it and now it is in a blog format and now you can comment on things.
Here it is: http://web.me.com/gunnimacman/Tims_Weat ... 10_08.html
I have gone into a bit more detail than last time.
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Yet another classic case of severe-weather forecasts not being heeded? ...
Wind turns burnoff into 'explosion' - The Southland Times
Wednesday, 29 October 2008 - By Amy Milne

A Thornbury farmer had a quick lesson in when not to light fires yesterday after a burn-off on his property threatened to ignite a nearby pine plantation. Wallacetown volunteer firefighters were called to the scrub fire, on the Thornbury-Waimatuku Rd farm, about 10.30am after gale force winds drove embers towards the plantation less than 20m away. Deputy chief fire officer Tony Carmichael said it was not the brightest idea to have lit a fire yesterday ...
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Andrew Massie
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Well... they DO vote Tim Shadbolt as their Mayor...
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Razor
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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I'm a bit sick of this 3 hour "shower" that we have had "clearing" in ChCh this morning :rolleyes:
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spwill
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Thanks for your Storm report/photo's Tornado Tim.
Probably a converging Southerly/SouthWesterly that helped generate those Storms on Sunday.
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Probably a converging Southerly/SouthWesterly that helped generate those Storms on Sunday.
Yes, as it coincided with a more SSW change, from SW, here :)
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mattyj46
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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Andrew Massie wrote:Well... they DO vote Tim Shadbolt as their Mayor...
Got nothing todo with the weather mate.
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Andrew Massie
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Re: Labour WE Trough & Cool Change

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mattyj46 wrote:
Andrew Massie wrote:Well... they DO vote Tim Shadbolt as their Mayor...
Got nothing todo with the weather mate.
Chill out mattyj, It was a JOKE!
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