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nasty nasty looking skies to the north and all along the western sky. sun is out here and warming up

Manukau heads observer wrote:the showers out in tasman collapsed
blue skies out there now!
great looking build ups inland though!

Yep!!! still... it was a fun morning... despite having no rain here... (need rain) and the farms down towards Whangarei way need rain, they really need it.

Dale Small wrote:Just had a whopper of a downpour here, dropped the temp instantly so there is hail in them thar storms..
Now its just spat out a couple of CG's as it goes over Bombay. Very nice.

Hi Dale your've been quite havn't seen you on the forum for awhile... anyway glad you got the rain down your way... take care.

Nev wrote:Geepers! That one made me jump - good lightning too!

Awesome

Nev are able to explain to me what conditions causes and/or creates the fog (or is low cloud) to come in like it did suddenly today over the bay, I still find it amazing how quickly it came in the way it did... and is not something I see to often, anyway will welcome any explanation, thank you.

if it was anything like what we saw at brians place at the auckland area meet, it was probably just a very humid incoming air mass. the cloud layer essentially lowered to the surface.

I can only hope 2010 doesnt pan out like this with the "thunderstorm events"
All of this stupid cloud cover is doing my head in.......
I think this year was even worse than 2008, LOL
I may end up watching storm chasers to compensate on the lack of thunder i have been receiving.
I think im getting withdrawal symptoms

Yeah quite a let down. Drove up to Huntly and all we had was one heavy-ish shower. It's pretty disappointing that a moderate risk of severe thunderstorms doesn't even deliver a single weak thunderstorm.

Todays sounding from Whenuapai. Some good low level instability with a lifted Index of -4.1 at ob time.

I think the issue today has been a lack of surface heating with too much lower level clouds.

A snap shot of a cb in the distance taken late morning. Looking SE.

I drove down to Bombay early afternoon , heavy rain/ surface water Pokeno to Mercer with a line of development running across the area giving the occasional heavy shower and thunder/ lightning for a time. Current radar shows more clouds building up down that way. A lot of cloud cover so not good for photo's today.

Took this snap on the way south early afternoon.

Vertigo wrote: it was probably just a very humid incoming air mass. the cloud layer essentially lowered to the surface.

Thank's Vertigo appreciate your feedback....

Tornado Tim wrote:I can only hope 2010 doesnt pan out like this with the "thunderstorm events"
All of this stupid cloud cover is doing my head in.......
I think this year was even worse than 2008, LOL
I may end up watching storm chasers to compensate on the lack of thunder i have been receiving.
I think im getting withdrawal symptoms

Nevermind Tim,

Well... I know what and am able to identify and relate directly to what you mean with those symptoms you have described... there is a name to it you know? YES *chuckle*... its called... needthunderstormslightningmuch-itis - OK in the meantime... here's a site with some really awesome storm pics taken recently over in Australia

Tornado Tim wrote:I may end up watching storm chasers to compensate on the lack of thunder i have been receiving.

I have every episode (including all of season 3, was epic!), if you want a copy I could mail a cd, let me know.

Weetbicks wrote:

Tornado Tim wrote:I may end up watching storm chasers to compensate on the lack of thunder i have been receiving.

I have every episode (including all of season 3, was epic!), if you want a copy I could mail a cd, let me know.

Dont worry I am up to date as you, LOL
Finished watching season 3 on Monday 2 hours of watching bliss, LOL
I am going to watch season 1 again..... LOL

I noticed a photo of a landspout funnel on TV1 news tonight. I didn't catch the exact location it occurred.

Quote DT-NZ "needthunderstormslightningmuch-itis" Chuckle

The Met Service new website is fabulous. Easy to navigate except I can't find my favourite maps. Is it my blondeness or are there no thunderstorm forecast charts? I can't find them.

there no thunderstorm forecast charts? I can't find them.

Below the 'rural' banner there is a small weather warnings link. Click on that.

Could be a very wet and cool day tomorrow, I don't think we'll get 20C. GFS is forecasting 50mm for Auckland.

Tmmrw is set to be bttr than today, hopefully the cloud clears.
The only thing i can see tht will limit it is the DP.
But heaps more unstable

Waiuku was here the funnel cloud was
we had a sea breeze convergence on the cost here

Saw this in the Manawatu Standard tonight:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standar ... -farm-shed

There were heavy showers that passed through Palmerston North, around this time, with a wind shift from E -> S -> W. It looks like this was when one of the surface fronts passed through.

We also had moderate thunderstorms yesterday, on the SE wind change, which passed through mid-afternoon.

NZstorm wrote: Could be a very wet and cool day tomorrow, I don't think we'll get 20C. GFS is forecasting 50mm for Auckland.

Wow. Unfortunately I won't be able to get my davis rain gauge outside until the weekend, arrgh
Forecast for blustery easterlies tomorrow so at least I can record that

where is all this rain and thunderstorms for auckland and neighbouring areas going to come from?

good to hear tomorrow has better potential than today. i had a hunch the early convergence would stuff our chances by blocking the sun. oh well. ya win some and ya loose some.

where is all this rain and thunderstorms for auckland and neighbouring areas going to come from?

A frontal zone slow moving across North Auckland is forecast to become more active during the day and drift south toward AK City.

GreggWard wrote:Saw this in the Manawatu Standard tonight:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standar ... -farm-shed

There were heavy showers that passed through Palmerston North, around this time, with a wind shift from E -> S -> W. It looks like this was when one of the surface fronts passed through.

We also had moderate thunderstorms yesterday, on the SE wind change, which passed through mid-afternoon.

Wow! Thanks Gregg. That's one of the best eyewitness tornado reports I've read for a while. Shame they didn't manage to snap a pic.

P.S. Just noticed the very last line on that story - must be a typo

Most New Zealand tornados occur in the east of the South Island, or the west of the North Island.

Nev wrote: P.S. Just noticed the very last line on that story - must be a typo

Most New Zealand tornados occur in the east of the South Island, or the west of the North Island.

Yes, I saw that too.