Thunder Likely in the South - First Week of Dec 2009

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but spring like patterns under el nino can occur right up to xmas /new year
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Yes. True, Brian, but this year seems to be quite uneventful, here, well so far. :x
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YEA! Hooray
2 claps of thunder heard to the NW of here, north of TC. :wave: \:D/

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Thundering like crazy here... \:D/
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Heading towards Richard, I hope :D

Various claps so far and lightning flickers, no actual strokes seen

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As quickly as it appeared, it's gone :rolleyes:
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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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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

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Another cell is developing where the first one started. So that is Thunderstorm Corner.
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Thunder now in Chch, have yet to see lightning
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I've just seen some lightning here in Hornby with some light rain.
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Frequent Thunder out to the west. Pretty distant. No rain falling here atm. May by pass.
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2 more huge claps of thunder and CC strikes, from nearby from what I saw, now moving towards possibly Kaiapoi. :smile:

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dogmelon wrote:I've just seen some lightning here in Hornby with some light rain.
Where r u dogmelon ,r u mobile. :wave:
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I'm at home in Hornby watching from the porch eating my tea, hehe:).
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dogmelon wrote:I've just seen some lightning here in Hornby with some light rain.
Oh! Hornby.Got ya. #-o
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Have heard several claps of thunder in the past 5 minutes...am in Burwood.
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dogmelon wrote:I'm at home in Hornby watching from the porch eating my tea, hehe:).
Sorry I read your previous post and it did'nt have any loction at the side,so I thought u might be a chaser.cheers :smile:
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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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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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Karshvardidgâh wrote:
dogmelon wrote:I'm at home in Hornby watching from the porch eating my tea, hehe:).
Sorry I read your previous post and it did'nt have any loction at the side,so I thought u might be a chaser.cheers :smile:
Roger that, I'll should add something in for that :P. The cloud has dumped its load, the rain was heavy and I stood out in it to "feel" part of the action.
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Heavy rain and much louder thunder here now
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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 :smile: as I have threatoned to close this thread because of nature's lack of interest in it, thunder that is. [-X

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3.2mm here in last 10 mins falling at 19.2mm an hour.
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