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Looks like there has been quite a bit of lightning in the north of the South Island.

Upper South Island is where the overlap between cool upper air and surface moisture occured.
Also the very high terrain there favours convection.

The upper air looked too warm over the North Island for thunderstorms but there was enough mid level CAPE for heavy showers. Good for the farmers.

There were showers through west Auckland today but Auckland central (Grey Lynn) was dry with 24C.

Must have just missed you guys as we got to Waiau as that storm moved off to the SE,got a photo of the next storm near Mt Lyford which must have been the one that was where Aaron and Steve were



Then on the way back we (youngest daughter)noticed another one SW of Hamner



So we drove west on a side road to get closer ,this storm was a real beauty with some close GS's



The same storm as it pasted Culverden

Nice photos Richard.

Hamner?

Rapid development of a convergence line to my NW.

RWood wrote:Hamner?

whoops,just stick the m&n the other way round

Good pic's Richard. This is my best shot of the day. Lightning just north of Waiau late yesterday afternoon.
Cheers
Aaron

Good photos guys esp yours Aaron.

Some nice cloud lines here yesterday.

Thats a neat shot Aaron

Great photos everybody;
must have been an exciting afternoon.
Mikestormchaser - hope you feel better soon!

Nice lightning photo Aaron I like the scenery.

Nice photos guys! and Aaron nice shot!! as nzstorm metiond, love the scenery!!
Thanks Orion, feeling much better today indeed! will be ready for the chance it gives us tomorrow afternoon with a moderate risk suggested on the metservice maps in south Canterbury and north Otago

Cheers guys. Tried my best and that was the best one. The storms seemed to be generating along the same line, about 3 formed in total although the last one was fairly weak and didn't do much in the end.

Might've been interesting to sit north of Kaikoura on the coast and do some night time lightning photography as some storms moved offshore there.

Nice photo Aaron.

Waiau Thunderstorm by SP Burrows

I've thrown 4 photos up on Flickr (click above image for more)

Thanks WW, good photo's Steve.

Thunder wrote:Thanks WW, good photo's Steve.

yer neat shot alright, when i was 18 i used to work on that farm just over the fence

Great pic's !!