Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Lots of lightning activity over the South Island at the moment.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Am reading some scary reports out of Chch tonight. Sounds like some significant damage occurring. Stay safe down there!
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Thankfully here in rakaia the wind has eased from what we had. We lost the old tall tv aerial mast and the two aerials that were on that. Power has come back on after three hours. Spectacular lightning over the alps. Can anyone tell me how bad the addington area is please my elderly father lives just down the road from the cbs arena and I'm hearing reports it has lost the roof - can anyone verify the damage in that area please. Thanks
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Counted 7 seconds between lightning and thunder just before. Some very long peals of thunder, getting frequent. Raining. The wind has subsided (comparatively).
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
TV3 has a story about damage to the Westpac Hub in Addington so that might be getting confused with the arena ?
http://www.3news.co.nz/Wild-storm-lashe ... fault.aspx
http://www.3news.co.nz/Wild-storm-lashe ... fault.aspx
Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Rebuild Christchurch says damage to arena and westpac hub https://m.facebook.com/rebuildchristchu ... 64988&_rdr
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Posting from phone no power since nearly 2 hours ago massive winds worst ive seen cant asses damage too dangerous out there at the moment.
definatly gusts up around 120kmh one gust was huge the pressure standing under shelter would have been higher than 120 easily .
big clean up 2mora i suspect i hope all are safe out there
definatly gusts up around 120kmh one gust was huge the pressure standing under shelter would have been higher than 120 easily .
big clean up 2mora i suspect i hope all are safe out there
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Lot more lightning strikes.
Listening to 1ZB at the moment, Kerre Woodham, good programme and update what is going on here at the moment.
Listening to 1ZB at the moment, Kerre Woodham, good programme and update what is going on here at the moment.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Calm now. 133 kmh peak yesterday cf 172 kmh in Aug 1975.
Wooden access cover to roof space was lifting and dropping in an alarming way ~10pm. Mr13 asked if there was a name for the phobia of being scared of the wind at night.
Nearly 20,000 without power now (Canterbury & NW Christchurch).
Wooden access cover to roof space was lifting and dropping in an alarming way ~10pm. Mr13 asked if there was a name for the phobia of being scared of the wind at night.
Nearly 20,000 without power now (Canterbury & NW Christchurch).
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Its 5:21am still no power although i could hear the orion trucks all night flat out fixing i bet.
Also a fire to the west somewhere as there was a red glow in the sky.
Winds have eased since my last post but trees have taken a battering i beti noticex a few branches around not too bad though and theres a car cover wedged come tangled under my car.
Thunder rumbles most of the night a big one around 3am woke me up.
Also a fire to the west somewhere as there was a red glow in the sky.
Winds have eased since my last post but trees have taken a battering i beti noticex a few branches around not too bad though and theres a car cover wedged come tangled under my car.
Thunder rumbles most of the night a big one around 3am woke me up.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Grabbed some screen shots of the lightning on the TOA network, will post later, very impressive.
Nothing to report from here thus far. Moving two big MDU's today, one from Opotiki to Edgecumbe, the other from Kawerau to Matata, forecast not flash, hoping for the best. Must remember camera, in case.
Nothing to report from here thus far. Moving two big MDU's today, one from Opotiki to Edgecumbe, the other from Kawerau to Matata, forecast not flash, hoping for the best. Must remember camera, in case.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
The gust just after 10pm was the biggest I've recorded at 98km/h with the anemometer at 5m agl.
Strike map from Blitzortung for the last 24 hours !
Strike map from Blitzortung for the last 24 hours !
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
The chart doesn't capture the event over Otago/Fiordland. VERY impressive over inland Caterbury. The best spillover lightning event for some time.Skywatcher wrote:
Strike map from Blitzortung for the last 24 hours !
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
121kph on my station, just insane for a residential area.
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Well called. Thankyou. The Spies and I were able to act accordingly.03Stormchaser wrote:I think these winds could be as bad as August 1975, there I said it!
6am, August 1st 1975 (Source Metservice)
Tuesday Noon, Sept 10th (Source Metservice)
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Interesting to see the pressure dropped more than 6hPa in the 2 hours before the strongest wind gusts last night.
(Power was off for almost a minute just after 10pm so I started shutting the PC down. That's why the graph is smooth up to that time.)
The webcam captured the dust haze as the strong winds were approaching.
(Power was off for almost a minute just after 10pm so I started shutting the PC down. That's why the graph is smooth up to that time.)
The webcam captured the dust haze as the strong winds were approaching.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Wild night in the Welly hills.. No lightening.. Worst could be yet to come..
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Here is my final graph for Christchurch (metservice data) showing the wind burst late last night. Max was 133 kph. Ashburton had a max of 128 kph. Interesting the highest at Metservice's Banks Peninsula site was only 70 kph or so.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Yes alot of lightning over the last 24 hours or so.
Here is last 48 hours of activity from Blitzortung Oceania:
Here is last 48 hours of activity from Blitzortung Oceania:
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Heard a rumble of thunder sometime around midnight, after the wind had eased off.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
wild night on the coast by all accounts. not from me though as i'm in dunedin...
lost power in reefton from 3am til about 8am. absolutely massive thunderstorm which is still ongoing.
up to 55mm on rain recorded and it's still bucketing down.
lost power in reefton from 3am til about 8am. absolutely massive thunderstorm which is still ongoing.
up to 55mm on rain recorded and it's still bucketing down.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Maybe my bad. I just could not figure out how to get the TOA working again until a little before 8 PM last night, and by then everything had moved north.NZstorm wrote:The chart doesn't capture the event over Otago/Fiordland.
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Not it still would have detected stuff. Stations in NZ picked up the lightning quite well.bpo wrote:Maybe my bad. I just could not figure out how to get the TOA working again until a little before 8 PM last night, and by then everything had moved north.NZstorm wrote:The chart doesn't capture the event over Otago/Fiordland.
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Re: Active Front / Gale NW'ers - Sept 10-13
Later today I'll check the data from the Boltek detectors up on the mountain and see how those went.Tornado Tim wrote:Not it still would have detected stuff. Stations in NZ picked up the lightning quite well.