Squally showers with possible thunder, Upper NI 6th-7th May.

[Brassnz]

41mm out here, for the 24hrs to 8am this morning, the majority of that falling overnight.

[spwill]

A line of showers moving quite quickly down over Northland, south of Whangarei now.

[jamie]

wow the enhanced infrared satelitte map is stunning at the moment

[David]

according to MS there is no thunder risk here anymore today...when will we get a proper thunderstorm for once

[Michael]

Probably not till real winter(a low directly over us/unstable westerly flow or wait till we have convergence in the warmer months.

according to MS there is no thunder risk here anymore today...when will we get a proper thunderstorm for once

[jamie]

that blob of rain out off the west coast of the NI is certainly active

[Tornado Tim]

Storm to my South and West

[GreggWard]

Thunderstorm to the north of Palmy. Can hear distant thunder.

[Manukau heads obs]

nice sunny day and warm day on the coromandel today
a couple of weak showers on the ranes early afternoon, thats all
you would know there was a raging low in the tasman sea

[GreggWard]

Have just been out chasing. I ended up out towards Tangimoana, where I met up with an organised line of shower and thunderstorm clouds, which followed me all the way back into Palmerston North. I struck small hail on Mt Stewart and saw bright inter-cloud lightning, several times, peaking at about 1 flash per minute, on the way back in.

This must have been the passage of the cold front, as the temperature has dropped from 18C down to 15C and the wind has backed to the W/NW.

[GreggWard]

Palmy even got a mention on the TV1 news, during the first weather segment, where Karen said that a thunderstorm came through at 5pm, with strong winds from the base of the storm and lots of lightning.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Any pictures?

JohnGaul
NZThS

[GreggWard]

I've got a couple of the incoming storm, although they don't look that great. I'll try and upload them, shortly.

[GreggWard]

Here are a few of them:









These were taken out at Tangimoana, as the storms started to roll in.


Gregg

[NZstorm]

Thanks for the report Greg. Looks like a little bit of a gust front with that storm.

[GreggWard]

The wind did get really strong, as that gust front passed over. That's when I gapped it and started heading back to town.

[03Stormchaser]

Nice to see you got out Gregg, just bought myself a new video camera yesterday from Photo and Video, $799.99
http://www.sony.co.nz/product/hdr-xr150e now the long wait till we actually have some sort of interesting weather in Canterbury!

[Manukau heads obs]

just watched a small and weak funnel cloud from a rain free base at the NE corner of a shower over the southern hauraki plains
from some shallow convection
lastea about 5 minutes
a funnel none the less
I will get a photo up later if anyone interested
we were travelling north on SH29

[NZstorm]

Will be interesting to see the photo Brian.

[Manukau heads obs]

2nd picture is from Friday evening, showing the high cloud with mamama and the CB line that moved down the west coast (looking SW from Maramarua area)

1st photo is the finger funnel to the right of the tree from today

[Manukau heads obs]

sure looks small and insignificant that finger funnel on camera in the end, LOL

[Dale]

Still a funnel!

[GreggWard]

... just bought myself a new video camera yesterday from Photo and Video, $799.99
http://www.sony.co.nz/product/hdr-xr150e now the long wait till we actually have some sort of interesting weather in Canterbury!

Nice looking camera Stehen. I hope things get going in the not too distant future, around Canterbury, so you can get out and get some good storm footage.