Cool end to October

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Wed 28/10/2009 19:53

southerly change just went through 20min ago dropped from 14 degrees at 7pm to 8 degrees now

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rawdon · Unread post by **rawdon** » Wed 28/10/2009 19:54

Roll it all to Wellington!!!

Steve

MoorfNZ · Unread post by **MoorfNZ** » Wed 28/10/2009 20:00

Wow, just been out and there's a huge front almost upon us... pics to follow... southerly has also kicked up ahead of it. Looks quite fast moving, very active.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Wed 28/10/2009 20:22

Wow

ive never seen such a fast moving gust front, the most amazing thing as it went through within 5 minutes black CU was towering to the west.
Look at the 8pm radar just like that, even some lightning being picked up i would say around inland Ashburton.
Strong gusty southerly here now averaging 40kmh gusting 50kmh so far.
Although the gust front seemed to be more inland and to the west, i am thinking maybe the penninsula broke up the gust front on the eastern side.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Wed 28/10/2009 20:23

Raining here 4mm already since 7:30pm

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 28/10/2009 20:29

Yea does look like a Tstorm has popped up inland from ashburton. Will be keeping an eye on it atm

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Wed 28/10/2009 20:29

raining now quite heavy 6 degrees

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Wed 28/10/2009 21:00

Headed south and toward the coast from Rakaia, front came through about 7pm(ish) recorded 93 kmph wind gust which I though was pretty impressive, imagine what it would have been like on the coast!

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Wed 28/10/2009 21:01

temperture has dropped down to 4 degrees still bucketing down now could see some snow tonight

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Wed 28/10/2009 21:02

rawdon wrote:Roll it all to Wellington!!!

Steve

All yours, brother!

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 28/10/2009 21:02

Bit of a bugger cos we were out there, once the southerly came through it looked so stratusy with no hope of anything firing. Still it's not like there was heaps of lightning or anything, some mobile data might have helped.

Cheers
Aaron

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 28/10/2009 21:33

once the southerly came through it looked so stratusy with no hope of anything firing.

Yes, the problem with fast moving Cold fronts is the show is usually over very quickly.
Good to see those photo's

Feels wintry in Auckland this evening, 13C, light showers.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Wed 28/10/2009 22:33

Well iv just been outside and its bucketing down even some sleet in the mix. crazy!
And has goten very cold indeed!
Great to hear you guys went out Steve and Aaron and some good photos there to

i ad kept an eye on it and it did look unstable for a time but didnt really look to promising in the end for thunderstorm no.

cheers

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Wed 28/10/2009 22:36

Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Bit of a bugger cos we were out there, once the southerly came through it looked so stratusy with no hope of anything firing. Still it's not like there was heaps of lightning or anything, some mobile data might have helped.

Cheers
Aaron

LOL! Can recommend a good phone!

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 28/10/2009 22:43

Yes you've got a nice phone there, hehe.

One setup we used (Steven Graham mainly speaking) in the past was having a cheap 027 hooked up to a laptop with a data cable, then we dialed in and just looked at direct links of images etc. Worked well and was cheap, costing 2 or 3 dollars max per chase. Sat images are ok (weatherzone speaking mainly) but radars are a little more difficuilt, direct links to other sources apart from metvuw ones are hard as the links have no uniformity to them.... it's all just random numbers and letters. In the past we had only 3 hourly ones anyway, but to get one hourly would help! Spose I'll just pay an extra couple of bucks and look at a whole page if I did get something like this going, lol.

Thing is I need to get a laptop so I can do it, one of those little ones would do nicely I think. Just so I can view web pages and store photos on etc. Have an 027 but it doesn't have the data slot, might need to get a new one of those. But this all costs money, bahh I should just let loose and buy one! haha!

Yes Spwill these systems seem to come and go quickly, days like earlier in Jan this year were nice though where we got to follow a storm for a fair amount of time. The 5th and 6th Jan 2006 was awesome, minimum of 2 hours following the one storm, need more of those.

Cheers
Aaron

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 28/10/2009 22:48

Heavy rain in central Chch - down to 5.9C at Hillmorton.

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Wed 28/10/2009 22:48

mikestormchaser wrote:even some sleet in the mix.

Weetbicks · Unread post by **Weetbicks** » Wed 28/10/2009 23:04

Yes, it certainly is bucketing down out there.

MoorfNZ · Unread post by **MoorfNZ** » Thu 29/10/2009 00:58

Well, I'm back online after losing power just after my last post around 8.30pm!! It's now 1am and outside it's white.. pics to follow assuming power remains on...

MoorfNZ · Unread post by **MoorfNZ** » Thu 29/10/2009 01:12

The front arriving...

What it brought with it:

Snow on the deck....

Snow on the drive....

... and a 6 hr power cut.... (still, I thrashed hubby at backgammon

)

Lacertae · Unread post by **Lacertae** » Thu 29/10/2009 02:16

Nice pics guys !

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Thu 29/10/2009 06:33

MoorfNZ wrote:Well, I'm back online after losing power just after my last post around 8.30pm!! It's now 1am and outside it's white.. pics to follow assuming power remains on...

How high is waddington above sea level??

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Thu 29/10/2009 07:04

Up here its nothing unusual about the weather.It is like this for months in "normal years".

snowstormwatcher · Unread post by **snowstormwatcher** » Thu 29/10/2009 08:12

nice pictures of the snow we only got sleet here 7mm of rain

CHCH Weather Chaser · Thu 29/10/2009 09:22

HUGE hail shower here at the moment with very squally gusts. Another 26mm from this system to go with the 38mm from the one a day ago. Some snow on top of port hills. Sleeting here at the moment, some nice flakes intermixed!

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