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Chance of thunderstorms on the West and East of the North Island tomorrow with the front crossing the NI tommorow.

I am not so sure about Metservices outlook for Northland having a mod risk.
Id say there would be a low risk instead, low to mod for Waikato, Mod for some areas of the BOP and mod risk for the West coast of the NI from Taranaki to Raglan.

Typical, and I'm too busy to consider a chase at present. Oh well. Maybe Friday when I have an 11 hour 500km Coromandel loop trip planned.

The moist air today helping produce a few cloud build ups/isolated showers

Nice isolated heavy shower to the East of Huntly atm, very nice convection for a change.

spwill wrote:The moist air today helping produce a few cloud build ups/isolated showers

same around here.

Was sooo nice to see tcu around and it be warm and not cold out here.

A bit of convection firing out to the west of the NI tonight.

A line of thunderstorms out there

spwill wrote:A line of thunderstorms out there

there sure is.. will come in once im usually in bed. might have to make a special occasion and stay up late.

man that line coming in is getting its act together, purple and white cores in parts of the line

Thunder

thunder and lightning in the waikato around hamilton already. this is ahead of the main front

It isnt intense rain but very thick large rain drops, no thunder only some very distant lightning.

Almost constant house shaking rumbles here at the moment.

Holy crap. Just got to 3.4mm/min rain rate. 204mm/h just shy of the stations record which is 210mm/h

yup very heavy rain, woke me up

Yep, almighty thunderclap woke me around 1:40 am, followed by several lesser ones over the next 10 mins. Great lightning show! Most of the 6.7mm here since yesterday evening fell during that 10 mins.

What an amazing cluster of strikes, can see why you Hamilton fella's recon it was great light show,luck buggers

On that Lightning-tracker that Nev posted ,what does +CG,+IC,-CG and -IC mean

Got woken just before 1am by thunder but just the one clap.

Here is some Data from my Weather Database when the front passed through for those who are interested

http://wx-matangi.dyndns.org/Weather/wxevent2.php

I think I might add a graph to it sometime.

IC means Intra cloud, CG means Cloud to ground and the - and + just indicate the different polarities of the strike.

Was startled awake here at 1.40am by a tremendous clap of thunder; saw a half dozen IC lightning bolts to the east of here before tiredness got the better of me.

saw one flash and heard one thunder....then hit the sack...only 5mm here...so we must have been in between the lines ....for a change ....

Tornado Tim wrote:Here is some Data from my Weather Database when the front passed through for those who are interested

http://wx-matangi.dyndns.org/Weather/wxevent2.php

I think I might add a graph to it sometime.

IC means Intra cloud, CG means Cloud to ground and the - and + just indicate the different polarities of the strike.

Thank you,understand it now

Woken by rain for the second night in a row and yes thunder heard last night

funnel/nado in northland:
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/t ... d-2-photos

Manukau heads obs wrote:funnel/nado in northland:
http://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/t ... d-2-photos

Good to have that report, a couple of excellent photos there.