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Heard thunder out Brooklands way over the last hour! More now as I type, havent seen any lightning though.

Seems to be north of us now, that's sad Just ordinary rain and the eventual clearance to look forward to. I can't wait I blame global warming for weakoning these systems

Saw to flashes of lightning to the north 20 mins ago. Looks to have developed from west to east direction by radar and not from the stuff that was coming up from the south. Seems NE CHCH seen more from this.

I'd be interested to hear from Tony T- purple on the radar up that way right now

Some rumbles to the south so i better shut down this computer

Raining for about 1/4 hour out near Akaroa; quite heavy but no thunder or lightning as yet.

Plenty of thunder and lightning out this way but rain not overlay heavy - no sign or sound of any hail. Just had a flash and rumble almost right over the top.

Ha, needed to wait 60 secs and there it comes, some hail mixed in with the rain.

torential for a few mins now but easing, some hail mixed in 7-8mm sized

TonyT wrote:torential for a few mins now but easing, some hail mixed in 7-8mm sized

Trust the thunder/lightning to come over the Blue Skies headquarters rather than the NZThS headquarters, but you are welcome to the hail ?.
Had Andrew Massie pop in to see me. Nice to see him.

14mm so far, but run just light to moderate now

No measureable rainfall here yet. Just occassional misty shower at times. City seems to be getting sheltered.

Thunder and lightning went around us now heavy much needed rain

Strong wind and lashing rain by the sound of it just at present;
8.0 degrees.

Heavy rain this evening but no hail. Winds back to the WSW as this system goes through.

Cant beat around the bush leighton, if ya really want the good stuff ya need to chase it, if it means traveling 3 hours, so be it
I went with aaron, jase and rouge and we hit up mt somers way, and crossed over into the foothills.
Couldnt be in a better spot really, as the develoing storms headed straight into that area.
That severe warning was based on an area south and up to mid and inland Canterbury, and we seemed to be right under the most intense stuff!
Unfortuantely couldnt take alot of photos as it was a messy type chase with cloud and alot of rain and hail. but plenty of video to show, witch im sure Aaron will fix up on the stormchasers website.
cheers.

Well done you fella's,thats the way to spend a Sunday hey well that has been a good wee rain maker if nothing else here with 18mm in the gauge so i'm happy with that.

22mm here and still raining, but all this rain wont do much without warmth soon.

Over 30mm here and still some showers coming through

20mm achieved here with a big downpour included last night around 930pm ish from memory.

I briefly went out towards Lincoln/Springston in case of some electric activity, but didn't come across anything better than backlit showers and a "gust front" when the southerly change did hit Springston with heavy rains (no hail). That "gust front" was actually funny in the way it allowed for enough sun to shine through the rain from behind and gave the impression you would drive out of the bad weather (see second pic) ... I haven't seen that before, the weather "behind" the front is usually bad enough to block the light ...

Big thanks to Mike, Jase and Aaron for taking me on my first proper chase, had a blast! Definitely keen to do it again whenever there is space - will charge my camera properly next time -.-

Was a great hail chase! The hail was relentless, hammering down for quite a long time and torrential rain as we kept pace with the storm. Hail was possibly up to 20mm in size at the most but most stones were around 10-15mm. We pretty much were right in the core of the storm as it hit near Mount Somers then followed it to the Rakaia Gorge. We went further up to Oxford following things but the storm appeared a bit weaker for this part of the day, it started firing behind Oxford a bit more but we couldn't get up in the hills there. Saw a fair amount of lightning and some really good CG's but conditions really hampered doing any photography. While driving I couldn't hold my video camera, unfortunately for mikey lightning would go off just as he would stop recording, arghhhh.

Cloud structure was no good, hardly took any photo's as there just wasn't that much good to take. Got video though so will try edit something together soon.

Was good to be out though and good to meet you Rogue, a pretty good storm for a first chase!

Cheers
Aaron

Thunder wrote:We went further up to Oxford following things but the storm appeared a bit weaker for this part of the day, it started firing behind Oxford a bit more but we couldn't get up in the hills there.

Do you know how to get to the Ashley Gorge and Lees Valley ? By the looks of the radar I wouldn't be too surprised if that's where you saw things firing.

I see in the paper yesterday that a West Coast couple got caught up in the thunderstorm at Staveley on Sunday saying it was the worst thunderstorm they had ever experienced and it was very terrifying with huge hail and constant and vicious lightning .
Must of been terrifying if they experienced their worst thunderstorm there as compared to the ones they get on the West Coast.