Unstable Southern Tasman Low, 12th to 16th May

[Tornado Tim]

Very nice shot Aaron, well done!

Developing CB's to the south, not surprising the CB's to the north are more thundery than the ones around here.

[Richard]

Thats one good photo Aaron,well done.

last nights storms,three separate cells all came within 10km of here,so lots of thunder&lightning nearby but far away enough that i didn't need to turn off a few think around the house.12mm of rain

[Weather Watcher]

Very nice photo Aaron.

[spwill]

I watched a distant lightning show from this Cb top this morning at sunrise it was unfortunately too light for a lightning photo opportunity. Photo of the Cb cloud from Mangere about 7.30am.

[Manukau heads obs]

I know Waiuku got a good thunderstorm at 7:30 this morning from reports
is that the same one?

[Tornado Tim]

Looks like the CB to my SW has turned thundery

[Manukau heads obs]

approaching CB here
(fizzled as it got closer though)
notice the very blown off from the NW top!
http://www.weather-display.com/windy/gb/special.swf

[spwill]

I know Waiuku got a good thunderstorm at 7:30 this morning from reports
is that the same one?

Yes must be, the cloud top was lighting up, great to watch. This might be a better photo of the Cb.

[Vertigo]

lots of good looking cold topped Cb's around today

[David]

Well the temps have certainly dropped this afternoon, just as cold as first thing this morning! Down to 11ºC. Not as windy here today as the forecast suggested...

[David]

Quite wet here now, noticed some tiny bits of hail bouncing around in the last heavy shower

[Michael]

Cold topped cb in the west.


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[David]

Wow at the Taranaki 5.28pm radar...

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Man there is a lot of red in that cell lying just NW out to sea of New Plymouth currently.

[Storm Struck]

Is it just me or is that cell off New Plymouth got rotation movement, watch it on the radar run between 5:50pm until now and you will see what i mean.
Maybe a waterspout within that cell somewhere.

[Manukau heads obs]

yes, does look like there is a small low center running up the coastline from Taranaki
the squall line associated with that is about to hit here...get some big gusts
I see stuff.co.nz reports a flight form auckland to wellington had to turb back at 5:30pm due to a electrical storm...I wonder where that was?

[David]

Some squally gusts up to 64 km/h just came through here

[Vertigo]

Wow at the Taranaki 5.28pm radar...

Wow, that's incredible!

[David]

Wow at the Taranaki 5.28pm radar...

Wow, that's incredible!

It got even more incredible than that my friend
I saved the 5.50pm image to my computer:

taranakiRadar1750_160512.jpg

[03Stormchaser]

Couple photos from yesterday evening:

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Looking toward Bank Peninsular

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Looking NW from Darfield

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A nice lowering that stuck round from 20min. At one point it looked like it had a funnel out of it, but as we were unable to confirm any rotation so Im not sure.

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One of the best cloud bases I've seen in a while, looking S from Darfield. Lightning was flashing away in the distance.

[03Stormchaser]

Great shot here from last night, obviously not mine but was posted on a stuff article:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zarphag/7201770510/

[Storm Struck]

Interesting there Steve he must be a photographer, great CG shot but i like Aarons shots best.
Looks like the next front is on its way up the island, should be really brief but might get some hail mixed in with it and a brief dusting down low as its quite cold out there now.
Although having said that the temperature has gone from 2.2C up to 3.1C in half an hour.

[Manukau heads obs]

nice photos everyone

[Richard]

Yes fantastic photos everyone,roll on next weather system

[Orion]

Very good photos, a great variety of cloud-forms to choose from that day! Well done the photographers.