Canterbury Thunderstorms - Sunday 20th Dec

[Lawrence]

GUST FRONT OVER US NOW.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

WOW, its very windy here suddenly. Hit us here too now. Talk about quick, 10 secs later than Rolleston haha.

[Lawrence]

No rain or thunder yet,still moving quickly.

[Kelly_Cattermole]

Wind has just hit Kirwee- no rain yet

[Dean.]

Nothing exciting now the front has been through,low cloud and a cool southerly.Maybe some rain to develop this evening.

[NZstorm]

I would say watch out Wellington. I see the dp there is currently 13C, some moisture there. The southerly buster could be interesting over the southern end of the NI late afternoon.

[Lawrence]

Precipitation here now,large intermitent drops,just gray low cloud to the south

[Lacertae]

The 1pm rain radar looks interesting down Rakaia.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Well that's it for here with the change to cooler air moving in and across at 1pm and stronger southerlies.
Temperature drop of 4C in about 20minutes.
Thunderstorm chances now look like zilch here and any development now will likely to occur will away from here.
Roll on the anticyclone
I did hear a few distant rumbles before the gust front.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Lawrence]

Steady rain now,still a brisk southerly.Well that was different

[Storm Struck]

Wind has just swung around to the NE here and fresh at that a good 30kmh.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Rain here now, Southerly gusting to 72km/h according to Metservice

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Hail now, sun briefly out again. Was short but decent sized!

[Storm Struck]

Thunder rumble just to the west of Kaiapoi now, few spots of rain starting but wind still easterly here under the gust front which is edgding across from the SE.

[Storm Struck]

Kaboooom that was a good rumble i am heading out to waikuku see what i can get.

[Kelly_Cattermole]

Tiny bit of rain, still blowing quite nicely (making the mini wind turbine spin like crazy)

[Lawrence]

Looking very dark to the North

[Weetbicks]

Raining now in chch city and getting a few claps of thunder.

[FIREFROG]

In the last hour we have had 4.3mm rain. Currently overhead - thunder and lightning. Is dark enough to have the lights on. Temp has gone from 27.3 @ 0940 to 13.3 now. Another long thunder clap overhead

[dogmelon]

It almost looks as if the storms are moving to the East now over the city. It looked like nothing was going to happen but well its now on.

[TonyT]

A few flashes here (more than we had last week) and some brief spells of heavy rain and partially melted hail.

[dogmelon]

Oh well, that was wishful thinking. Nothing.

[Kelly_Cattermole]

sunshine! noooooooooooooooo

[Storm Struck]

I took chase and ended just down at the Pegasus township and filmed where the lightning was first intially coming from which was the gust front area.
Then figured out a cell behind me was going off too, so i turned around and filmed that what a good idea as i got some good CG bolts come down and tumbling thunder.
Just heavy rain with a little bit of hail for awhile but overall being close to the action i managed to get out and chase.
I think that sneaky easterly which snuck in before the southerly is what got things firing to the north of the city.

[tich]

Only some brief showers out on the peninsula, but certainly alot cooler now with a gusty southerly.