Thunder Likely in the South - First Week of Dec 2009
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Re: Thunder Unlikely
Yes. True, Brian, but this year seems to be quite uneventful, here, well so far.
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Re: Thunder Likely
YEA! Hooray
2 claps of thunder heard to the NW of here, north of TC.
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2 claps of thunder heard to the NW of here, north of TC.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Heading towards Richard, I hope
Various claps so far and lightning flickers, no actual strokes seen
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Re: Thunder Likely
Couple of rumbles here looks really dark over North Canterbury from here,wind a brisk southerly here with a few isolated light showers.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Just had a big boom of thunder overhead witha rather elongated cloud to cloud strike. Starting to rain now.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Another cell is developing where the first one started. So that is Thunderstorm Corner.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Frequent Thunder out to the west. Pretty distant. No rain falling here atm. May by pass.
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Re: Thunder Likely
2 more huge claps of thunder and CC strikes, from nearby from what I saw, now moving towards possibly Kaiapoi.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Where r u dogmelon ,r u mobile.dogmelon wrote:I've just seen some lightning here in Hornby with some light rain.
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Oh! Hornby.Got ya.dogmelon wrote:I've just seen some lightning here in Hornby with some light rain.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Have heard several claps of thunder in the past 5 minutes...am in Burwood.
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Re: Thunder Likely
Sorry I read your previous post and it did'nt have any loction at the side,so I thought u might be a chaser.cheersdogmelon wrote:I'm at home in Hornby watching from the porch eating my tea, hehe:).
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Re: Thunder Likely
No thunder or lightning there was a wall of dark clouds southeast of here about 3pm but it didnot produce anything.
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Within the last 5 mins the wind has turned to S and the dark clouds have let go a heavy belt of rain
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Re: Thunder Likely
Saw a few C-C flashes here in Templeton and heard about 10 rumbles of thunder, some overhead. Heavy rain which then turned torrential for a couple of minutes with spouting overflowing - the weather station recorded a peak rain rate of 120mm/h with a total of 8.4mm in about 25 minutes.
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Roger that, I'll should add something in for thatKarshvardidgâh wrote:Sorry I read your previous post and it did'nt have any loction at the side,so I thought u might be a chaser.cheersdogmelon wrote:I'm at home in Hornby watching from the porch eating my tea, hehe:).
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Re: Thunder Likely
Looks as though the higher prefrontal westerly has moved it out to sea and now it has weakoned.
Interesting as it formed just north of TC, moved northwards and then went right-handed direction out to sea.
Nice one
as I have threatoned to close this thread because of nature's lack of interest in it, thunder that is.
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Interesting as it formed just north of TC, moved northwards and then went right-handed direction out to sea.
Nice one
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Re: Thunder Likely
3.2mm here in last 10 mins falling at 19.2mm an hour.
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