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Last night sky becane rapidly overcast in the evening with intermittent moderate rain beginning at 2200 . At 0200 this morning distant lightning was seen to west . By 0300 claps of thunder from embedded Cb's heard from incoming warm front . As I type this still occasional spherics and distant thunder . Forecast is for more thundery showers in Southland later today . Rainfall total to now is 9.9mm since 2200.
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lightning striking in fjordland at the moment.
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Wow thats amazing from being really good weather there to rain and thunderstorms...Great weather turns into being overcast where I am. How lovely?
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Update : Have had two further Thunderstorms since last posting . Just had a strike CG 300 meters away .Hit trees on farm across the road I see Met Service Thunderstorm outlook has storms forecasted here all day
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A very active thunderstorm situation down there, there's been a lot of lightning for parts of Southland.
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A pity I cannot see above the Cb base here , but frequent rolls of thunder and CC flashes . Did the 0900 Climat obs in a thunderstorm which is tad hairy as there were frequent flashes and rumbles above my head as I completed the observations
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looks like more to come too?
as its slow moving?
(and looks like its a series of wave depressions-> warm/cold/occluded fronts moving down the main frontal boundary?)
the height of the mountrains is not as high at the southeren end of Fiordland I guess, where the front is coming across, so its not providing as much blocking as you would expect?
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Gotta ask, Vertigo...where are you getting those awesome pics of the lightning maps? :mrgreen:
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gllitz wrote:Gotta ask, Vertigo...where are you getting those awesome pics of the lightning maps? :mrgreen:
the original is at http://webflash.ess.washington.edu/
but a mate and i made an weather image scraping site here http://www.ohthehugemanatee.com/weather/
which is where i grab those images from

edit: sometimes the sites we scrape from get overloaded (mostly metservice....), so those images will be blank at those times.
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You can just hear very faintly to the SW low rumbles of thunder . Sky now partly cloudy on mainland , temp now 22.6 RH 69 %
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Vertigo wrote:
gllitz wrote:Gotta ask, Vertigo...where are you getting those awesome pics of the lightning maps? :mrgreen:
the original is at http://webflash.ess.washington.edu/
but a mate and i made an weather image scraping site here http://www.ohthehugemanatee.com/weather/
which is where i grab those images from

edit: sometimes the sites we scrape from get overloaded (mostly metservice....), so those images will be blank at those times.
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Actually temp is now 27.7 post front. Getting temps what some of you are experiencing up north. Looks black to SW but a Southerly 12 knot seabreeze has just kicked in . I suppose the front will return at some stage
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