Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13

[Skywatcher]

Thunder heard and light rain here.

[bpo]

Things certainly seem to be quietening down pretty rapidly now.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Rain and booming thunder here in CHCH. Long rumbles at times.

[petem8nz]

Rain and booming thunder here in CHCH. Long rumbles at times.

Same out here in Bromley!

[moylanr]

Things certainly seem to be quietening down pretty rapidly now.

Not here. Lightning, rain 0.6mm/hr and increasing, and gone dark:

11:40 update 2.8mm rain 10 am to 11 am. Now dry and sunny (for a while):

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Fork lightning

[Storm Struck]

Sitting here in ferrymead big bolt just came down and hit a power metal pole on the port hills
i have one large tree down on the back fence will get a photo later on

[dogmelon]

That was a rare one, a NW thunderstorm of sorts. The rain drops are big and its nice and still which is nice. The lightning part of it has terminated all of a sudden though.
Addendum;
Move the canterbury rain radar slider backwards and forwards and you can see that big blob of rain rolling over the mountains.

[snowykiwi]

Raining here in rakaia but now starting to clear

[Skywatcher]

Timed my walk to look for damage nicely with moderate to heavy rain and a few good rumbles of thunder.

[jamie]

Yea ive never seen such a big blob of rain make it over the alps like that. Amazing!

There has been a phenominal ammount of lightning from this front.

[TonyT]

Power went off at our place about 9.30 last night and is still off. Trees across our driveway prevented us getting out till neighbour with larger chainsaw than mine came round. Minor damage to house (flashings loosened and twisted). Fences and ppwerpoles down in Amberley, but power back on to most of the town. Outlying areas still out. Thunderstorm came right overhead about 10am, flashes every 40-60 seconds, but sun coming out now.

[seej]

Any images of this lightning?

[Vertigo]

My friend down in Oamaru yesterday

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[Tornado Tim]

Any images of this lightning?

Here is an image that was taken over the Wanaka area when the front was further south.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/your-news/272 ... ver-wanaka

[bpo]

Not here.

Possibly so, but overall it's essentially over and done with.

[David]

Check out the temperatures at Kaikoura early this morning (I was collecting data so I could plot wind speed but getting the temperature was a bonus )
23.5°C at 1:53am

[Storm Struck]

I cant get into MS on my phone for some reason what are they saying about tomorrow ive heard on the radio fine with light winds but im thinking eh?
To me its a really good set up for thunder and hail

[seej]

Any images of this lightning?

Here is an image that was taken over the Wanaka area when the front was further south.
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/your-news/272 ... ver-wanaka

Wow! Fantastic!

[kiwisk8er]

The wind broke a big tree branch at the front of our house. Luckily it just missed the phone line otherwise I'd be internet less.

[03Stormchaser]

Been for a drive round mid canterbury. At a guess I would put it at 10,000+ trees have have come down. Bigger than 1975 as I thought

[moylanr]

I will explain what I mean. I don't think the same strength winds will occur at exactly the same places. But I see similarities that gust's could become very damaging causing similar damage to 1975.

Feedback from staff working throughout Canterbury indicates worse vegetation debri than 1975.

Good forecasting!

[Bradley]

Been for a drive round mid canterbury. At a guess I would put it at 10,000+ trees have have come down. Bigger than 1975 as I thought

But an entire couple of plantations came down in 75'? Still worse?

[03Stormchaser]

Been for a drive round mid canterbury. At a guess I would put it at 10,000+ trees have have come down. Bigger than 1975 as I thought

But an entire couple of plantations came down in 75'? Still worse?

Well from what I have read from 1975, (obviously I wasn't around then) this event at least seems on par if not more damage but widespread out across Canterbury. Christchurch took a much less of a hit last night that it did in 1975 though.

Ive got a couple photos up here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... tif_t=like

Edit: Ive just added a very nice lightning shot to the album from Tinwald, Ashburton

[Storm Struck]

A few snaps of the 38 year old pittosporum that is on a mad lean along the back fence, its quite hard to tell in the photo though.
A corokia took the brunt as you can see in the second shot.

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