Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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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.
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Re: General August Weather

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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.
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Re: General August Weather

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The moist air today helping produce a few cloud build ups/isolated showers
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Nice isolated heavy shower to the East of Huntly atm, very nice convection for a change.
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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.
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Re: General August Weather

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A bit of convection firing out to the west of the NI tonight.
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Re: General August Weather

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A line of thunderstorms out there
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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.
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man that line coming in is getting its act together, purple and white cores in parts of the line :)
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Thunder :)
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thunder and lightning in the waikato around hamilton already. this is ahead of the main front
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It isnt intense rain but very thick large rain drops, no thunder only some very distant lightning.
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Almost constant house shaking rumbles here at the moment. :)
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Holy crap. Just got to 3.4mm/min rain rate. 204mm/h just shy of the stations record which is 210mm/h
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yup very heavy rain, woke me up :D
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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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.
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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What an amazing cluster of strikes, 8-o can see why you Hamilton fella's recon it was great light show,luck buggers :D

On that Lightning-tracker that Nev posted ,what does +CG,+IC,-CG and -IC mean
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Got woken just before 1am by thunder but just the one clap.
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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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.
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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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.
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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 ....
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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 :D
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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Woken by rain for the second night in a row and yes thunder heard last night
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Re: Northern Thunderstorms - Aug 11/12

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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.
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