Deep Subtropical Low 12-18th May!!!

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Re: Deep Subtropical Low 12-18th May!!!

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Tornado Tim wrote:I can see the lightning from it
Me too :D
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I wonder if it will stay intact all the way to the auckland area.......hummmm
possibly not due to the land quickly cooling down at night now

going to look for lightning now that you guys have seen some!
yup, seen some...not all that frequent...not like the first lot of CB's that were off the west coast on saturday night
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ugh, the thunderstorm warning didnt even show on 3 news weather, whats the point in having it if it isnt going to be advertised!
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The warning made it onto TV1 weather
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the footage of the damage from the logs in the Tasman area looked bad....real flash flood stuff alright!

I was just going to suggest that the kerikeri station needs to be pull in the ranging for his boltec for storms to his south, as it was plotting over the manukau instead of kaipara harbour, but I see his actively doing that now :)
http://www.kerikeriweather.co.nz/wxlightning.php
(the Brynderwyn ranges (or ranges to the NW) migth be causing a weaker signal

I think the thunderstorm warning is more based around the heavy rain...and total rain...due to the slow movement south...as the warning criteria, rather than amount of lightning strikes (which is only every minute or 2)

this kaipara CB has a huge blown off to the SSW anvil, visible on the sat image!
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Yes after TV3 siad that the lightning was in the Brynderwyn area I started making adjustments, for anyone else wanting to make adjustments - there is NO activity around my place.
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Yes, we can see the Northland Lightning from Auckland as we have clear skies here, looks like a nice storm up there, have seen plenty of lightning, very distant .
Photo 1, you can just see the cg strikes on the horizon
photo 2, Distant Cb with Lightning
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Man I wish I'd spent a few hundred more and bought a DSLR. I won't make that mistake again.

Our forecast for tomorrow night is looking good at this stage. Lets hope I have better luck then.
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Big time fizzer for Auckland! Can't believe how fast those showers are drying up.

Dammit!
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Yes, that storm to the north died quickly, cold land surface now, only 12C. Further storm development now would be over water and affect land areas near the coast.
Another photo of that distant storm.
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Photographs taken on the westcoast between 15:30 - 16:00hrs today (90 Mile Coastline)

17052010-00 - Seabreeze convergence line looking north towards the cape way
17052010-01 - Seabreeze convergence line looking south towards ahipara way
17052010-02 - skies north
17052010-03 - looking north again up along coastline.
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Well done on those photos DT-NZ, Towering Cu in the Auckland skies today but the weather stayed dry.
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Good photos you lot up there :smile: .
Had nothing like that down here in Christchurch/Canterbury today.
I would show you some photos of grey flat stratus but I won't as I have my camera's battery is in the charger :rolleyes:

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Nev wrote:Hi RWood. Yes, NIWA refer to the EWS as "Nelson Aero", which, based on coordinates, is at the Tower. However, MetService also refer to their AWS (or used to) as "Nelson Airport", which appears to be at the S'ern end of the runway (not the tower). Yes, annual totals over last decade show that the MetService AWS site has consistently read lower than the EWS Tower site. Note that last Jan, the MetService screen was re-sited over grass, facing N; the previous year it was mounted on a pole, over concrete, facing W.

Hi Tim, the DSE WS (yes, Dick Smith Electronics) may have just been used as a temporary comparison, for the existing site. I'm not too sure. Maybe they were just as perplexed.
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we had a flash of lightning and thunder here at 5:30am...woke the wife up.....who kindly waited until 7am to tell me, LOL
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Wow great shots all, looks like you guys got a great show!

DT-NZ, in your 3rd shot (17052010-02) is that a sundog or halo? I'm thinking halo but it looks like its concentrated in one point.
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Can see that cloud is lower than the halo(i think) refracting making it look brighter.
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DT-NZ, in your 3rd shot (17052010-02) is that a sundog or halo? I'm thinking halo but it looks like its concentrated in one point.
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we had a flash of lightning and thunder here at 5:30am...
Development through our west this morning with isolated Tstorms, took this snap on my morning walk.
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Very good shot spwill :D
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a few more from this morning in birkenhead :wave:

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nice to wake up, they looked really good with the morning light on them
fog here at the moment...
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Manukau heads observer wrote:we had a flash of lightning and thunder here at 5:30am...woke the wife up.....who kindly waited until 7am to tell me, LOL
I was up at 05:00hrs and noted lightning activity north out over the pacific - some of those flash's were strong and lit up the skies - I heard no thunder, the wind picked up and had brief shower earlier on this morning recieved 1.5mm in raingauge.

Currently 15.6 out overnight min 11.2 - sun's out skies are blue... beautiful morning.
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Vertigo wrote:a few more from this morning in birkenhead :wave:
Morning Vertigo & spwill nice morning skies you had your way :D thought I'd add a pic, a snap taken this morning looking north at 7.26am.

edit reason(s) - uploaded a starfish - incorrect image - changed to sunrise snap take this morning.
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Michael wrote:Can see that cloud is lower than the halo(i think) refracting making it look brighter.
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DT-NZ, in your 3rd shot (17052010-02) is that a sundog or halo? I'm thinking halo but it looks like its concentrated in one point.
Morning Tim :wave:

Both halo and sun taken at 16:00hrs looking north - unfornately I do not have a wide angle len's and would have been able to have shown the view west over the tasman sea showing the same thing - halo and sundog.

What I have done is included a few more pics below of the original and another pic where I have adjusted the RGB output curve in the original to enhance the sundog.

Cheers, DT
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My view when I got up this morning, a little mist along the ground and a nice CB lit by the rising sun. CB was probably off the north shore and was due north-east of me in Henderson
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