General May Weather

[ricky]

Wow, warm front has definitely arrived on the ground here now with a NE wind shift, DP jumped up to 19 degrees and temp to 19.4 ..
Low cloud, drizzle and heavy showers moving in from the North..
Even saw a couple of lightning strikes detected from up there somewhere east of Northland/Nth Auckland

[spwill]

Like a January morning with the 19C dewpoints

Report of a Thunderstorm over East Auckland way just now.

[littleheaven]

Nasty on Auckland's North Shore right now. Intermittently torrential downpours, blustery, dark. I'm supposed to be taking an international visitor sightseeing today. She'll be seeing mainly the inside of the shops, I suspect. 95% humidity and DP 17.5 in my back yard.

[Area51]

Bucketing down in Sth Auckland, visibility down to about 2km in rain, a clap of thunder around 1010. Condensation on the outside of the windows at around 0930 for a while as the temp rose and wind picked up!

[ricky]

Some more thundery heavy showers around the Whangarei area now I see..

[spwill]

There is another crop of heavy showers/isolated thunderstorms is over southern parts of Northland now drifting this way

[Manukau heads obs]

was in the supermarket when that warm air mass arived, stepped out into almost tropical air, was weird

[Tornado Tim]

Some isolated strikes around the Kaipara Harbour in the last hour.

Wind picking up it seems here, temp around 21°C atm.

[Manukau heads obs]

very dark here for the middle of the day
I see there are the odd lightning strikes just NW of me

[bmo]

Had some on/off torrential rain in Orewa.
Winds have definitely picked up.
Temperature has decreased from this morning when it was really warm all of a sudden.
Heard some thunder maybe about 2-3.

[Manukau heads obs]

very heavy rain here at the moment
2.68mm per minute peak (160mm/hour)

[spwill]

Some heavy and quite squally showers here over the past hr, feels warm with a dewpoint of 19C.

[NZstorm]

Observed a lightning flash mid morning at Pakuranga. Elevated convection. A wet sodden day!

[NZstorm]

Lightning/thunder just now in Grey Lynn.

[Vertigo]

lovely sound/sight

[spwill]

Yes, Thunderstorm over central Auckland area currently

edit, a couple of lightning flashes/thunder, a squally shower, through now.

[Manukau heads obs]

lightning strike on qantas plane
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/4990225/A ... -lightning

[Tornado Tim]

Good on you Ricky!
Look at his current conditions, LOL

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[David]

I didn't hear thunder in the city today, but just got home and mum says we had a thunderstorm around 2pm. Shame I wasn't able to see it or enjoy it. 18mm rain today, NE'er has been gusting up to 60kph, damaged my umbrella...

[Richard]

Gota love TV1 weather tonight,"Auckland's weather tomorrow,fine apart from showers in the morning and then in the afternoon",

[David]

Amazing, almost mid-May and the dewpoint is 19C here tonight

[dazza99]

It is 22C at 8pm here in Wellington.

It feels tropical - it must be some kind of record for this time of year!!

[spwill]

I see the warm front has moved across Wellington , the Airport at 6pm was on 14C dewpoint 14, now 19C dewpoint 18C.

[Tim S]

Just had 13.2mm in 18 minutes, with a peak rate of 228mm/hr or 3.8mm/min, not bad! up to 45mm for today and 157.3mm for the month.

[Michael]

Can easily picture that,a few showers but mostly fine inbetween

Gota love TV1 weather tonight,"Auckland's weather tomorrow,fine apart from showers in the morning and then in the afternoon",