General August Weather

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Tue 14/08/2012 15:50

Missed the showers here, plenty of sunshine, max 17C.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 15/08/2012 07:27

Our short run of fine weather in Auckland will end today with an upper trough crossing bringing afternoon rain. While instability is weak the upper air is cold so isolated coastal thunder/hail possible.

The subtropical moisture makes a return at the weekend with the next major system. 5 days out though but gfs showing the system well supported by the jet stream.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 15/08/2012 13:10

Just had a nice gust front cross central Auckland, looked to be a wind change. I hope someone like spwill got a good photo of it. I couldn't get a proper photo from here.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/08/2012 13:24

NZstorm wrote:Just had a nice gust front cross central Auckland, looked to be a wind change. I hope someone like spwill got a good photo of it. .

Missed that as I was working

, torrential shower just crossed here

Manukau heads obs · Wed 15/08/2012 15:30

view from papakura area looking west

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/08/2012 15:58

Have just watched a decent looking funnel cloud ( likely a water spout) move across the Manakau Harbour onto South Auckland, went out of view due to rain.

Torrential rain here now with this next line

Manukau heads obs · Wed 15/08/2012 16:03

cool
certainly are some nice looking CB lines around at the moment

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/08/2012 16:20

Photos of that funnel cloud and the frontal line.

David · Unread post by **David** » Wed 15/08/2012 16:24

Just had some insanely heavy rain here....with a NW wind change

ben g · Unread post by **ben g** » Wed 15/08/2012 16:32

http://imgur.com/htz3R
From devonport, Wow what a battle that was to post from an iPad

KiwiWeather · Unread post by **KiwiWeather** » Wed 15/08/2012 16:40

Great pics Graeme, Spwill and Ben!!

I just snapped these and less than a minute later, it absolutely poured down.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 15/08/2012 16:48

Nice guys/gals!
reports that a funnel cloud was also observed near Waiuku from that first CB I photographed

ben g · Unread post by **ben g** » Wed 15/08/2012 16:56

Hey nz herald that was quick, but please credit that photo in your article to Ben Gundry,

no worries tho

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Wed 15/08/2012 17:15

Neat pictures, thanks people, and I see some interesting weather conditions from around 3.20pm to 4.20pm on the Auckland weather webcam - http://www.sitecam.co.nz/auckland_webcam/
Edit to add: Oh, lookit, 1,000 posts

CHCH Weather Chaser · Wed 15/08/2012 17:24

Looking like a good drying out period ahead here for a while with very little to no rain in the forecast for the extended outlook period. 100mm for the month to date exactly.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/08/2012 17:25

Another photo of the funnel cloud (distant) taken about 10 mins after the photos above, it had moved away over South Auckland.

Thunder · Unread post by **Thunder** » Wed 15/08/2012 17:42

Nice stuff, awesome!

snowykiwi · Unread post by **snowykiwi** » Wed 15/08/2012 17:45

Impressive photo of the funnel cloud. I hope the weather settles down now and we get back to a dryer spell after all this rain down here. Here's hoping for no more cold spells.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 15/08/2012 18:20

Watched what looked like a mini wall cloud out over the Manukau Harbour around 4pm. The airport wind was NE 13kts.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 15/08/2012 18:31

Just add that a number of funnels developed on the lowering. The NZWP sounding shows some good CAPE low down in the sounding which is good for spouts.

Pic of gust front early pm.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 15/08/2012 18:35

oh, nice photo Jim Hickey had of a water spout off the west coast of auckland.....no more specific than that!

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Wed 15/08/2012 20:37

Driving back to Auckland from Orewa at 5.30 I saw both an extremely vivid rainbow and some beautiful mammatus. Unfortunately I was not on an area of the motorway where I could easily stop and take a pic. Driving was quite unpleasant, quite a bit of surface water.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Wed 15/08/2012 22:52

Nice pics there guys!

Manukau heads obs wrote:oh, nice photo Jim Hickey had of a water spout off the west coast of auckland.....no more specific than that!

3:30pm off Kariotahi (also spelt Karioitahi or Kariaotahi?) near Waiuku according to this screen-grab...

Manukau heads obs · Thu 16/08/2012 06:57

oh, cool, then that is from the CB I photographed from Papakura (I was on my way home) and which people in Waiuku saw it
It had a nice rainfree base on that CB and some real nice structure..looked like it was a rotating mesoscale
it was an individual CB all on its own, that first one,....moved south from the Waitemata harbour, just west of the City

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 16/08/2012 07:28

Pic here of the inflow base over the Manukau Harbour about 3.45pm. Looking south from One Tree Hill. The base was producing multiple funnels.
The airport nearby had a NE 13kts.

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