General September Weather

[snowstormwatcher]

Thick high cloud here and a moderate westerly, Currently 14 degrees.
Hoping tonights southerly change brings some decent rain cause like most of Canterbury theres been very little rain here this winter.

[MoorfNZ]

Thunderstorm (thunder, no discernable lightning) going overhead at the moment (Waddington, inland Canterbury, nr Sheffield).

Dark skies but clear behind. May only hold one or two rumbles.. will soon see

[FIREFROG]

Thunder here at the moment, havent seen any lightning.

[Razor]

Roll of tunder here about ten mins ago (Riccarton)

[Weetbicks]

On Radar it looked like an isolated cell which has now headed NE out over the coast, but looked impressive nonetheless, some red/purple blotches in the centre of it.

[TonyT]

Thunder heard here also

[mikestormchaser]

Just took a read of blue skies weather, Tony going for possibilty of thunder for tomorrow afternoon. could be one to watch.
No thunder/ lightning observed from where i was today

[Richard]

Still blowing NW here but certainly looking black to the south.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

No thunder heard from here but sky looking quite thundery around 3pm, to the northern part of TC, with some trail coming out of the cloud. A few sferics from then on to now.
Grey , layered cloud around at the moment but with that instability look about it.
Calm here with the odd light patchy rain falling.
Barometer is very low so anything could happen

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Richard]

Nothing much has changed here, the S wind change only a little closer, Just have to put up with this stinkin NW for a bit longer yet

[Storm Struck]

Dont worry Richard its not southerly here yet either, that cell just developed near my work and went around us very dark and ominus looking then heard a few rumbles of thunder no rain though.
But 200m up the road from work the roads were wet, as i left work there was another cell developing around Oxford.
On the way home i drove through some heavy rain and brief tiny hail stones.

[melja]

Good storm here in rangiora with 10-12mm hail Dents on my caravan roof will post pics soon.
Pics added but to dark to pickup dents in caravan.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Interesting
On the MetService Website, in the Severe Thunderstorm forecast , there was a No Thunderstorms icon for us today, as compared to the northern areas of the North Island, but there were a few claps, reported, resulting from lightning from some movement out of TC, well, possibly from that area/region, moving west to east..
Maybe these lightning occurances don't qualify for a thunderstorm and don't come under the "Severe" or even a potential thunderstorm to occur, unless it it is in a local forecast?
Any member from MetService on this forum would like to comment?

JohnGaul
NZThS

[melja]

Yeah just looked at M/S and they have no mention of thunderstorms down this way, 10mm hail to me is enough to come under there "Severe" category- bit slack really.
Edit- I see it has to be 20mm or larger

[mikestormchaser]

Just gone S at mine now so should reach you jase in the next 10 or 15 minutes.
Nice pictures there to melja, by the sounds of it tomorrow afternoon might be one to just keep an eye on.

[Michael]

Just Us stuck under a pure SW flow all week,just east of us NW or W ,Even the tasman away from the coast is westerly.

[Richard]

Just tipped out a massive 4mm of rain,not much but hoping there's going to be cloud build ups that can produce a bit more during the day.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yes just 1.5mm here. Thursdays change looks to be potentially interesting for some heavy showers and maybe a thunderstorm, although it is fluxuating as you would expect.

[Richard]

Been under an area of convergence here since about 7 am with small hail from time to time,cant even see a leaf moving on the trees.

[Michael]

Are your leaves already out,only the canadian maple is heavy budding here,no leaves,others all bare except the row of pinus radiata along the front.

Been under an area of convergence here since about 7 am with small hail from time to time,cant even see a leaf moving on the trees.

[spwill]

Are your leaves already out,only the canadian maple is heavy budding here,no leaves,others all bare except the row of pinus radiata along the front

Mostly subtropical and native gardens around here, very little seasonal change. The give away for climate is always the vegetation.

[Richard]

Are your leaves already out,only the canadian maple is heavy budding here,no leaves,others all bare except the row of pinus radiata along the front.

Its a Eucalyptus niten,the only deciduous trees out around are the usual weeping/cracked willows,natives ribbonwoods etc

[TonyT]

A couple of distant rumbles of thunder here about an hour ago, and light spitty showers since.

[snowstormwatcher]

No rain here from the southerly change last night, mainly fine today apart from some soft hail a couple of hours ago. Quite a strong WSW wind and 11 degrees.

[Richard]

Been NE here all day and couple storms that went over,saw two GS in the first storm and just heard thunder in the second