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Thunder risk for North Island for week starting June 17th

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Looks like thunder potential this week over the west and north of the country. I wouldn't like to try and put too much detail on it as storms are typically hit and miss type of weather. Taranaki/Waitomo later tomorrow looks a good bet though.

There looks to be a trough coming onto the top of the North Island later Tuesday and so Auckland should be in the firing line then.

GFS 500mb temp chart for Tuesday.
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yes Monday afternoon looks like we could catch a storm or two.
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18ZGFS instability/500mb wind forecast for midday tomorrow.

A low risk of a tornado for Taranaki if the surface flow can veer into the N.
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Lightning observable to west.
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Yes, some big Cbs showing up along the North Island west coast but there is no radar this morning.
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spwill wrote:Yes, some big Cbs showing up along the North Island west coast but there is no radar this morning.
http://www.weatherzone.co.nz/radar/auckland/
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-5 LI floating around this afternoon with some very very decent CAPE numbers. Could it be a craker afternoon?
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that weather zone radar is not lined up correctly
we have had no rain last few hours..i.e the shower lines are further south that it suggests
but still good to have a rain radar!
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plane hit by ligthning
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currently 18.2*C / 16.3*C DP. These are crazy temps and moisture for mid June. Need something to trigger off all this energy!
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plane hit by lightning.....only news because there was an MP onboard!
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Looks like Metervice are picking up the risk for some isolated thunderstorms this afternoon for Waikato today :)
Metservice wrote:In the west from Waikato to North Taranaki, also Taupo:
Showers, some heavy. Isolated thunderstorms possible from afternoon.
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Quite Lightning active in the tasman atm :)
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Can see some distant Cb in the west, currently fine, Greylynn showing a warm 19C, dp15C
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A sudden heavy shower here, Summer like.
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CRAP! very close lightning strikes here at work with pea to marble sized hail and flooding rain.

flooding our building and just trigged the fire alarm. WOW
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Quite bad flooding in our building. It was coming through the roof at a hourrendous rate. Some very very close strikes too.

Best core ive experienced this year by far. Hail, wind, flooding, close strikes. Nice!
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Just light rain in the central city. But certainly observed the thunder and lightning.
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I cant believe Tims station missed this. Its just down the road from my work. My station missed it too. It probably needed/needs a warning on that. Just before it started hailing there was a brilliant lowering which looked very much like a wall cloud but my view was blocked by trees so couldnt see all that well.
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Oh wait i see Tims lost power from that so he did get hit!
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continual thunder here and now torrential rain with flooding!! Got the thunder and light rain about an hour ago but now seems the storm cell may have re-tracked on itself and getting hit hard now.
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Yea my brother phoned to say Hamilton East got pea-marble sized hail with flooding too.
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Wow at the vertical rainfall line on Tim's weather graphs! What was the max rain rate Tim?

Boring weather here, overcast and gloomy for the past hour
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