Thunderstorms Canterbury 19th & 21st October!!

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

THUNDER!! - flash of lightening too

[carrot]

There was some red on the 11am radar and some more thunder too.

[Weetbicks]

Thunder in central chch now from huge thunderstorm just heading over the hills now, check out the radar !

[Lukemyster]

That was def thunder just then! Very long lasting too. Deff not a C-17!

[Lacertae]

Just got internet back and I realize I'm missing 2 t-storm warnings !!!
Anyway, can see some nice CC over the Hills from Spreydon.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

pitty it stayed over the hills and didnt more over the city

[Richard]

The storm over CHCH looks fantastic from here and boy its building all round here also, its going to be a very interesting afternoon

[Lukemyster]

Hail certainly settled. I've heard about 10 rumbles, and still getting some:D

[Lacertae]

Pretty big hailstones here for a few moments ! I'll take a picture and post it.

[Richard]

Just got internet back and I realize I'm missing 2 t-storm warnings !!!
Anyway, can see some nice CC over the Hills from Spreydon.

I can only see one t-storm warning ,can you post both on here ...please

[Lacertae]

Sorry, I was talking about Tuesday and today.
Anyway, here is the shot of the hailstones. I had to put them in the freezer the time for me to get my camera so they had the time to melt a little bit. One of them had a very distinct "cluster" shape (not visible on the picture, sorry).

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[Lukemyster]

Yeah, was pretty big ae! Now who has been raping the lightning tracker site, i really want to see it. If you managed to get on screen shot please.

[Richard]

no worries good size hail Lukemyster,

[03Stormchaser]

no worries good size hail Lukemyster,

I think you mean Lacertae!

[carrot]

This was from a few minutes ago.

[Richard]

no worries good size hail Lukemyster,

I think you mean Lacertae!

oops i think i'm losing it,must be all this excitement

[03Stormchaser]

haha no worries!

I think metservice did a poor job with this one

Valid to: 12:00am Friday 22 October 2010
Issued at: 8:33am Thursday 21 October 2010


A cold front is expected to move over the lower North Island this morning and reach Gisborne this afternoon. There is a low risk of thunderstorms associated with the front from north Canterbury, up the Kaikoura Coast, the Marlborough Sounds and western ranges of Nelson, about the lower North Island and eastern North Island. There is a moderate risk of thunderstorms in Manawatu, Kapiti,Wellington and Wairarapa this morning and in Gisborne this afternoon. These are expected to bring brief heavy rain and squally wind gusts.

Could have at least updated it as the storm became apparent on there radar, Ive seen watches on worst looking storms before from them!

[03Stormchaser]

Stuck at home with a punding headach today so unable to chase
Managed this photo looking east .

[Thunder]

Am out near chch airport. Things look to be weakening now

[Thunder]

Another pic a couple min ago.

[Weetbicks]

Is that out McLeans island road past the works infrastructure ?

[03Stormchaser]

Is that out McLeans island road past the works infrastructure ?

I think he was just off orchard road next to the NZ post building.

[Weetbicks]

Ah yes, that is where he is, thanks

[mikestormchaser]

Turnd out to be a great day today not really predicted at all either.
I noticed the clouds this morning looked interesting and with certainly very cold air!
And things just started to shape up nicely around 11am there was no doubt in my mind we were in for thunder!!
Took some phone pics from where i was at work, and saw some nice lightning.
Back home near the port hills dad tells me had some decent size hail around the size of the kool mint lollies.
AWESOME!

[Thunder]

I was up a little too late dammit, lol. Dam my complacency! Missed out on the main storm although I saw it go out to sea. I headed back towards the airport as there was a weak area of clouds going up and all I could really focus on, nothing happened there though apart from some rain shafts I could see falling.

I was down the very end of Harewood Road.

Those pictures were a bit bigger then I was expecting! First time I've used my new phone to upload pictures like that, there is a resizing option on my phone so think I'll do that before uploading them as that would save on bandwidth to.

Cheers
Aaron