High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Unstable now SSW of here and moving in fast,looking good and to the south now,a few spots of rain
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Still only got very light drizzle here, although clouds moving North very fast.
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Bloomin' big gusts from south, too! Need to go in and get another jumper and coffee! brrrr
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
looks like a good crop of thunderstorms heading for western north island.
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
and a noticeable lack of strikes on the radar for last hour... ho hum....
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
We Abandoned an hour ago after no joy, monitoring from chch now. Aargh.
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Shame, but at least you got out there and had a go! Think I'll be sat here staring at rain for rest of evening LOL *sigh* Better switch back to quakes...
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Yes bit of a dud chase today unfortunately
Andrew, Aaron and I sat there for a good two hours waiting paitantly for something to come up but nothing eventuated
However we did see a nice CB line to the south towards Omarama where there was apparently a thunderstorm going off at the time.
Oh well we gave it a crack!! next time
Andrew, Aaron and I sat there for a good two hours waiting paitantly for something to come up but nothing eventuated
However we did see a nice CB line to the south towards Omarama where there was apparently a thunderstorm going off at the time.
Oh well we gave it a crack!! next time
Mike
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Only a SW wind gusting to 38.5kph currently and hovering around 18C. No rain at present
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
FIREFROG wrote:Only a SW wind gusting to 38.5kph currently and hovering around 18C. No rain at present
18C?? thats big jump firefrog its only 11.5C here and dropping still winds S-SW gusting to 40kmh
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Only some drizzle so far near Akaroa, since the southerly (gusty now) arrived nearly 2 hours ago.
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
A nippy 10degs heremikestormchaser wrote:FIREFROG wrote:Only a SW wind gusting to 38.5kph currently and hovering around 18C. No rain at present
18C?? thats big jump firefrog its only 11.5C here and dropping still winds S-SW gusting to 40kmh
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
I was hoping you pro's were going to tell US thatAndrew Massie wrote:I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Wish I could!! It's beyond me!MoorfNZ wrote:I was hoping you pro's were going to tell US thatAndrew Massie wrote:I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Well folks, I'm back from the West Coast and nothing much really to report weatherwize over there except it was really 'persisting' down today. I heard a rumble of thunder just before leaving Greymouth but that was it.
Didn't hang around for anything much else as the sky was 8/8 Ns with heavy rain right through from there to just the other side of Arthur's Pass. If it had been thundery you wouldn't of seen anything anyway. I can see the difference from thundery rain to the term thunderstorms.
Never looked thundery/tornadoic even on Thursday when we had another bout of heavy rain over there.
Apart from that it was either warm and humid or cold with the southerly.
Also I managed to get my photo on the front page of last Tuesday January the 5th Greymouth Star with some idiots doing morris dancing
JohnGaul
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Didn't hang around for anything much else as the sky was 8/8 Ns with heavy rain right through from there to just the other side of Arthur's Pass. If it had been thundery you wouldn't of seen anything anyway. I can see the difference from thundery rain to the term thunderstorms.
Never looked thundery/tornadoic even on Thursday when we had another bout of heavy rain over there.
Apart from that it was either warm and humid or cold with the southerly.
Also I managed to get my photo on the front page of last Tuesday January the 5th Greymouth Star with some idiots doing morris dancing
JohnGaul
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Hmmm... The lightning radar is showing strikes just off raglan and the rain radar shows some interesting bands of precipitation heading our way. I wonder if we may end up getting something here?
Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Light Rain just started here and temp has now dropped to 12C
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Well that was a bit of a fizzer, didn't get many exciting pictures, just overcast dark cloud, meh.
Here are some pics anyway. I also took 3 short videos because I realised my camera could take video (duh!) They're currently uploading so I'll post the links soon.
Here are some pics anyway. I also took 3 short videos because I realised my camera could take video (duh!) They're currently uploading so I'll post the links soon.
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Re: High Risk of Thunderstorms - SI, Sunday 10 January
Just really heavy rain here about half an hour ago. Can't cook tea as all the pots are in use catching the waterfalls in the conservatory again