Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Thats a nice area of instability out in the north Tasman. A hit and miss day for thunderstorms today over northern NZ but there is obviously a strong risk over Northland and this spreads south into the Auckland area this afternoon with the frontal system.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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:lol: i think dad has a short on one of his fences around the house. The boltek is picking up between 40 and 50 strikes per min in a very dense patch. ill ring him and let him know.

EDIT: problem solved. He had a big short sparking away just 150 metres away from the house :lol:
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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A small tile of images taken at 07.45hrs this morning from Cooper's Beach -the approaching rain band was impressive - I will be working on the bigger images (6 in total) this morning - did try to post a bigger image of the tile but is to large in size to post on forum.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Lightning strikes out to sea west of Northland down to Taranaki.
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thats an impressive photo there DT. Loving the cloud formation.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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medium tile (working on bigger images now ) all taken looking east out over Doubtless Bay.

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pretty sure i just saw a funnel cloud out past Rangitoto. It was very hard to see properly though. Cloud was hanging down in a funnel shape then quickly lifted back up. So im partially confident it was a funnel. Quite a fat one too.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Just had a torrential shower here for 5 mins or so. About 3mm rain from it.
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David, going by the 15 min radar scans you got the tiny but vigorous cell that i was talking about just before.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Solid heavy shower here, near whiteout at one point but has backed off.. for now.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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David wrote:Just had a torrential shower here for 5 mins or so. About 3mm rain from it.
Same here about 5 mins ago had a brief torrential shower 1-2 mins, just checked 3mm rain from it - looking real black and ominous down towards the south west, sun's out now :rolleyes:
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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It seems you have some thunderstorms coming in your way DT-NZ, take plenty of pics :D
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certainly some action out off the coast at the moment. Hope it moves this way and stays active. Dont think ive heard thunder for at least a month.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Yes, plenty of Thunderstorm action off the west coast.
Here is a photo of that Cb cloud that developed over East Auckland and moved away SW.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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heck i just took a look outside and we are about to get smashed. Very black out there.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Tornado Tim wrote:It seems you have some thunderstorms coming in your way DT-NZ, take plenty of pics :D
Hopefully, the wind here has started to pick now... anyway, here's hoping :-) great image spwill _b take care.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Some nice cloud structure before that second heavy shower came in. Can just see those thunderstorms to the NNW appearing on radar now :)
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Barometer is dropping like a stone here & just about to get nailed.. edit, now we ARE getting nailed by that next shower. incredibly heavy!
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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we had a very heavy shower too, up to 1.9 mm/minute, 4mm from it
heard one lot of thunder too :)
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Todays Whenuapai sounding. Shows CAPE of 346 j/kg.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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the next shower line has lots of lightning activity over northland at the moment :)
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Can see big cloud tops to the north east with the next line, yes thundery up that way.
Most of the local showers today have been over East/South Ak, here's a Cb photo looking east mid afternoon
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the next shower line is intensifying :)
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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Thats a decent storm over Great Barrier Island way.
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Re: Unstable period, Early July (North Island)

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TVNZ is reporting a tornado in Kaitaia with extensive damage.

http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/tornado ... ia-2827488
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