Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Weetbicks wrote:Amazing photos guys, you should be very proud of them, some good keepers for sure.

I was thinking, would anyone be interested in starting something like an NZ weather forum Flickr gallery? We can maintain it with album for these types of events and it just means it becomes easy for anyone to upload all of their photos to the gallery, and we can keep a history of all the photos.

Would anyone be interested if I set one up ?
I would say go for it... great idea... however, importantly - check with Foggy, Nev, John & Tony T... they may add some thoughts later.
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Man the photos you guys have taken are awesome! Ka pai everyone!

We've had 36 photos sent in: http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/p ... ght-camera Some are spectacular.

Fingers crossed for another good day (although I'm missing sleeping!!) :-)
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Hey jamie.h _b Wicked pics there ;) ... enjoyed looking at those lightning and mammatus pics...
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Ok here is my vid, when we got hit with the nice rain core :D

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Btw, this is the rain core just b4 it hit:
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tim you have this set to private and i cant view it
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jamie.h wrote:tim you have this set to private and i cant view it
try now, i have altered the settings :)
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I'm going to post pics and links to my clips sometime today, uploading speed is very very slow. Can't upload my clips to youtube - left it for 6.5hrs and upload didn't complete, retried for another 4 hours and also wouldn't complete.

So sorry guys...if you want to see the clips I'll link to them and you'll have to download them to your computer to watch...
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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David wrote:
Tornado Tim wrote:Ok here is my vid, when we got hit with the nice rain core :D
Wicked MUN storm vid _b
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Thanks for the great reports /photos vids.
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Here's some pics....uploaded them elsewhere as forum limit is 160Kb...

North of Huntly:
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Next 2 were taken from close to Hamilton:
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Next 2 are of the storm we intercepted through Cambridge and Matangi....taken from Roto O Rangi Road
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Really good shots David ! _b =D>
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The initial cloud bases will be quite high like the other 2 days and drop a bit lower once some precip starts to fall.
Look at the lcl on the skew t chart.
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Good Sea breeze today fine and hot (more so than yesterday) in auckland 24-25c,We had thunder about 5pm about an hour yesterday.
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if anyone has found good close up satellite images of this event please do share them
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OK here's the link to where you can watch the video I took of that wind event (view in full screen ;))...probably very similar to Tim's but oh well!
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if anyone has found good close up satellite images of this event please do share them
This here is a good sat image but it got taken just when the cell was about to erupt, from NASA's Modis: http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/real ... 0.250m.jpg
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Some neat development visible from Auckland today!
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Good development starting to happen again according to radar at 2pm
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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yup, towers along the ranges around here are just getting big enough to start dropping rain. much earlyer and different to what we have seen the last two days. more like what we saw the first day.
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Big CB now just to my S, hope it puts out some thunder soon! Very warm here, 27°
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just went for a better look up on a hill. there are countless small Cbs around and some rapid development. kaimais look to be the place of best development
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Re: Convective period, NI, 25-28th January

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Huge rain drops here now. May get thunderstorm over Auckland soon.
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Thunder heard West of me. Looks like central city is going to get the thunderstorm!
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looking good over auckland way!
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Good looking CB over the kaimais, looking ENE, and I have ENE breeze, projected path- Matangi, LOL! :lol:
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