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Unstable now SSW of here and moving in fast,looking good and to the south now,a few spots of rain

Still only got very light drizzle here, although clouds moving North very fast.

Quick vid to prove it's raining lol

Steven Spielberg I'm not....

Proper rain finally started here

Bloomin' big gusts from south, too! Need to go in and get another jumper and coffee! brrrr

looks like a good crop of thunderstorms heading for western north island.

Cold,Wind,Rain

Karshvardidgâh wrote:Cold,Wind,Rain

Ditto

and a noticeable lack of strikes on the radar for last hour... ho hum....

We Abandoned an hour ago after no joy, monitoring from chch now. Aargh.

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...

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

Only a SW wind gusting to 38.5kph currently and hovering around 18C. No rain at present

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

Only some drizzle so far near Akaroa, since the southerly (gusty now) arrived nearly 2 hours ago.

I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!

mikestormchaser 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

A nippy 10degs here

Andrew Massie wrote:I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!

I was hoping you pro's were going to tell US that

MoorfNZ wrote:

Andrew Massie wrote:I'd love to know why it didn't happen... Particularly after a High chance! Not grumpy, just the theory!

I was hoping you pro's were going to tell US that

Wish I could!! It's beyond me!

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
NZThS

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?

Light Rain just started here and temp has now dropped to 12C

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.

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