Thunder and Lightning Waikato 22nd May

[Maramarua]

You could hear this coming up the Waikato





And within half an hour it had left it's rain and hail and was heading up the firth of Thames

[spwill]

Thanks for the report/photos Maramarua.
Some big CB cloud tops around the Auckland area this afternoon.

[NZstorm]

I was at Coatesville just north of Auckland this afternoon and there was a downpour just after 3pm with 1cm sized hail stones mixed in with the rain and one rumble of thunder.

[tich]

Must be a bleak (but interesting with the storms) day in the Waikato, with Hamilton on an icy 5C at 3pm.

[David]

Hasn't turned out to be much again, just the odd brief shower around

[Maramarua]

Looking at the maps after this most of it headed up Coromandel and away. It's going to be a cold night again. Some of the hail is still hanging around and the sky's are getting clear.