General June Weather

[David]

Having a good rain tonight, 5.4mm last hr. I had to walk home in that; thankfully it wasn't too windy to use the umbrella!

[bmo]

Had a good downpour just now included some hail temp dropped to 8.6C.
Lost sky just like yesterday.
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/wxS ... showrain=1

[David]

Looks like a decent area of rain moving onto the west coast in North Auckland/southern Northland region at the moment, not much lightning on the tracker though.

[tgsnoopy]

A couple of pics of the lightning active very heavy downpour about 6pm last night.

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[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Heavy showers off the Canterbury Coast at the moment surprisingly. Dont think we will get any here.

[spwill]

Greylynn down to 5.9C this morn which is the coldest temp for the year there, we can say Winter 2011 has arrived in Auckland

[Michael]

Also have to remember some years summer is late too,ie 2004,started at Xmas.

Greylynn down to 5.9C this morn which is the coldest temp for the year there, we can say Winter 2011 has arrived in Auckland

[Richard]

That's one good downpour alright tgsnoopy

A cloudy morning here and 5C with a few showers around the foothills.

[David]

Greylynn down to 5.9C this morn which is the coldest temp for the year there

Interesting. Howick got down to 4.8 in April and 4.6 in May. Down to 6.5 here this morning.

[NZstorm]

Well last nights polar trough didn't amount to much. I think the problem was dry air off the South Island in the mix.
Nice to see a fine morning.

[Manukau heads obs]

we did have a good squall here that woke us up at 3am (again)
47 knots max gust (the marine forecast had 45 knot squalls )
was a pressure jump with it too

[Dale]

Didnt really do what I thought it was going to either, that front.. sure it was cold enough to freeze the whatsits off a brass monkey & im sure at higher elevations there would be a dusting of the white stuff, I thought it would have a bit more punch than that. The Cbs' out in the Tasman late yesterday were quite crisp but were a little too far north for my liking.

Freakin cold barber here this morn..

[Manukau heads obs]

nice crop of CB's going up the coast past me now....lightning active too...

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Frequent heavy showers moving through here this morning.

[bmo]

We've got thunder and lightning here. Scared the crap out of me when it hit the power lines just 10m from our house... the whole house was shaking and we lost power for 3 minutes.

This picture is from the lightning tracker and shows basically where our house is (thats were the red dot is and that scared the hell out of our dogs)

[spwill]

A dry day here with the Cb clouds passing just to the west/NW.

[tgsnoopy]

That's one good downpour alright tgsnoopy

I forgot to point out that the restaurant next to my usual Fri night watering hole was flooded out and the Fire Service was there quite a while (still there when Dial a Driver took me & ma car home).

http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/local ... s/3957148/

[NZstorm]

Pic of cb out to the west of Auckland this morning about mid morn.

[NZstorm]

Just 14C in Auckland today, thats our coldest day in 9 months. September 22nd was the last time we had a day this cool.

[Vertigo]

watching updraft towers going up over the waitaks currently

[Manukau heads obs]

there was some sun heated towering CU over the waikato this arvo too..

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nice looking Cu clouds this afternoon. Some near up to congestus status.
Haven't seen clouds like this since before the earthquake, the Sept 4th one.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[bmo]

X marks the spot on the rain radar left of the Kaipara Harbour

[03Stormchaser]

Nice looking Cu clouds this afternoon. Some near up to congestus status.
Haven't seen clouds like this since before the earthquake, the Sept 4th one.

JohnGaul
NZThS

saw these aswell on the way into town from Darfield. Now only if it was spring....

[Tornado Tim]

I would expect a frost here if the SW would die away.....