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What a fantastic sight to wake up to,its building to my south west which is a good sign.
NW wind still blowing and 16C at present.

Getting a good downpour in the city now, no wind, just coming straight down, very saturating rain - ironic !

Weetbicks wrote:Getting a good downpour in the city now, no wind, just coming straight down, very saturating rain - ironic !

Great news,its a wonder there's no thunder,the clouds look tall enough for here to produce it.

What a great way to bring in my thousandth post

Well done, Richard!
A cool damp morning here, 13.8 degrees, 79% humidity, little air movement (can't see any leaves stirring); have had some light rain or drizzle over the last hour or two: don't think it's falling at the moment but it "may as well be", it's so dull & damp-feeling. Very dark, going to turn the light on.

Youre lucky,last hour here usual SW Needles hopefully no furthur as branches come down.

Orion wrote:Well done, Richard!
little air movement (can't see any leaves stirring); have had .

Just had a steady shower here before, some nice looking CB tops out there this morning nothing thundery as yet though.
Wind is a breezy southerly here, MS have a low risk out for this morning so hopefully a good storm develops from it.
Currently 16C at 992hpa .

Jasestorm - just 8kms north of you and we have had no rain at all. just a SW blowing 16.8C and 996hPa.
was very dark looking over the city but sun now shining on the Port Hills

You can tell the tops are at good heights because the shower cells are very slow moving, just need the day to heat up abit then we might hear some thunder.
I will say though firefrog the showers do seem to be petering out once they get this far north, but still had another one just now and up to 3.6mm in guage.
If storms develope ill make a new topic for us cantabs.

Looking reasonably dark to the south here now could get some showers soon brezzy southwest wind currently 15 degrees. Congrats on the thousandth post Richard.

Just been for a port hills rain. Rained the whole way but nothing too dramatic. Looks to be picking up from the south and clearing so good news for the cricket

Not that it matters too much its like a lottery when we win a game these days

Razor wrote:Just been for a port hills rain. Rained the whole way but nothing too dramatic. Looks to be picking up from the south and clearing so good news for the cricket

Looks like the predicted band of showers has been spreading north this morning, rather than afternoon as MetService forecast.

Had a report of a thunderstorm in or near Geraldine this morning.
Does anyone else know about this ????


JohnGaul
NZThS

Theres some really big CU tops out there now, billowing up very quickly just took some photos starting to look rather thundery.

Yes, There's one heading your way now after a brief shower over us. More coming up from the south too

JohnGaul
NZThS

Had a riper of a rumble about 11.00 just to the west of here and a brief heavy shower,looks like more showers developing to the SW.

Had a report of a thunderstorm in or near Geraldine this morning.
Does anyone else know about this ????

I saw the lightning on the global tracker. Radar showed possible hail. It was earlier this morning before daybreak.

NZstorm wrote:

Had a report of a thunderstorm in or near Geraldine this morning.
Does anyone else know about this ????

I saw the lightning on the global tracker. Radar showed possible hail. It was earlier this morning before daybreak.

Did it show the one near us ??

Really big CU off to the NE/N of the city right now. Took some snaps but can't get a full view of it from my house, but it does look very menacing, some well defined edges on it, and looks glaciated @ the top





and on radar, looks like it could be putting down some hail:

Thought i would start a new topic for future reference so mods if you could please move some of the recent related posts to here thanks .
Just had a shower past here heavy, one lightning flash and long rumble of thunder.
Another cell developing to the SW now as the sun comes out.

I'm going to head out north of town now with the camera and see what I can get, back later !

I'm going to go head out north of town now and see if I can get some pics. Those ones above were of one already out to sea, I went out the front gate and saw another monster which is actually the one on radar above, back later !

just had a good downpour here. I heard there was thunder & lightning in Ashburton early this am, as it woke my rellies.

*peers all round the horizon* - can see 'cauliflower clouds' to the far north-east; wind now strong southerly breeze, maybe backing to south-east; no sign of anything unusual in that direction; blue skies with low white clouds coming across from the south, i.e. none going in the opposite direction to the wind on the ground, which is usually a sure indication here of a storm to come. There were some streaky-looking dark grey clouds mid-morning which looked interesting, but nothing eventuated here. 19.1 degrees, 45% humidity. Will keep watching...

It looked pretty interesting on the 9:00 radar (Weatherzone source) ... shame I was sleeping ...