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Has anyone seen the front on the radar coming at the west coast. Very sharp :eek: . Metservice outlook looks good today too. Hopefully it can hold itself together and become a bit more active as it crosses. Should be an exciting weather day none the less.
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I would add the 2nd on the title as well.

The chance of a thunderstorm for Auckland looks like coming through early evening. There was a burst of lightning activity over Taranaki/Waitomo this morning but has quietened down now. I've got 16C here now with the sun popping through.

Quite a strong system crosses the country tomorrow with a thunder/hail risk from Southland up the West Coast and getting onto the west of the North Island by evening, though Taranaki looks to be the most likely spot as far as the NI goes.
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looks like some more lightning west of the Kaipara on that line now
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A mild morning, 16C , dewpoint 12C, fresh westerly, quite a lot of cloud cover, Cb line should come into view in the west shortly.
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Google lightning overlay is getting strikes over Raglan just now.
This looks good! http://www.geographynetwork.co.nz/websi ... viewer.htm
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went up Mt Eden but was a bit of a fizzer to look at. Just had some torrential rain for a short period a few mins ago. Some really good gusts in it too.
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A brief downpour followed by 10mins of mod to heavy rain.
Heavy showers follow this Front, now 12C.

Lightning activity has been mostly near the Northland West coast
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ahh, a nice NW->SW change. quite gusty, woke me from my nap.
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next CB cluster looks more active on the rain radar at least
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4mm rain here and some brief gusts around 50km/h when it hit here. Hope there is some excitement to be had later!
Temperature has fallen to 12° here after peaking at 17° at midday.
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i think as far as wind, thats all were getting, barring some isolated downbursts.
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I see MetService are slow at updating their weather charts, etc. on their website. :-(
Interesting to see what Karen has to report on the weather segment of the news just before 7pm ?? :wave:


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I thought yesterday we had the best low level moisture/convergence come through (midday) too far in advance of the upper level trough (evening) hence a bust day.
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quite an active looking squall line moving our way now on the front, be interesting to see how it holds up
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it was VERY thin :(
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Might be very thin but is dumping torrential rain ontop as I type.
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