Nope still seems to be having issues... just had a heavy shower and the weather station is showing nothingDavid wrote:Hmm, after just having a moderate rain shower and the weather station reading 0mm I realised there must be something wrong with my rain gauge... thankfully taking the plug out of the transmitter circuit board and then replugging it in seems to have fixed the issue (maybe it had worked it's way loose somehow). Phew!
Turns out some nasty bird did a #2 in the coneManukau heads obs wrote:maybe check for spider webs
This left it completely blocked. I don't know how it recorded 0.2mm at 1.30am this morning though!
LOL typical Geek arnt you Dave! I'm probably the same, think its a more deeper problem than it actually isDavid wrote:Turns out some nasty bird did a #2 in the coneManukau heads obs wrote:maybe check for spider webs
cbm wrote:Yes, 1B in Cambridge. ValMai House. Came across it early Sat afternoon so assume it must have come down Friday night. I'm on the opposite side of town but observed the peak of the winds about the time you meantion - got 30m+ Oak and Plane trees very near my place, always been a slight worry what would happen if one came down. Someone in that street would have heard exactly when it came down... it might be in the local paper this week. It should have coped with a 60-70km/hr gust just fine if it was healthy but it obviously had a rotten section.
Hey I realise my earlier comment about living the dream may have been insensitive now that I see it could have been more like a nightmare at the time, sorry.03Stormchaser wrote:Watched the gust front make land fall at the Ashburton River mouth. Saw quite a few Cg's, a distant waterspout, little rotation in the clouds and hail. Recorded winds gusts of 70kmph on my anemometer.
It was starting to hail and Aaron had just left in his car was it was parked behind mine. As I go to leave (Mike Stewart was in the car aswell) we are hit with a massive wind to the side of my car rocking it violently, then it appeared like it hit on multiple sides of the my wagon (Got a Subaru Grand Wagon, not a very light car at all) I grabbed the steering wheel as tight as I could and yelled at Mikey to hold on, with no idea what was going to happen next. I've been in 100km winds and this was worst than that, I thought we were going to roll at this point. Next second it feels like we are being lifted and I turn around and see my wagon is being lifted then dropped, lifted the dropped, this happened about 4 times. I'm unsure if it was lifting the wheels off the ground or not but it appeared like it was being lifted about a foot, more travel than the suspension.
At some point we slid as well unsure when that was but the whole experience only last probably 5-10 seconds, but felt like forever at the time. Even now 3.5 hrs later I still have that shaky feeling!!
No damage to my car, only noticeable thing that happened was the wing mirrors were bent towards the front.
Whether it was a tornado (waterspout that came ashore), a downburst, or just a strong gust im unsure. But right before packing up we witnessed rotations in the couds heading our way. What ever it was it sure got the blood flowing, wont stop me getting that close to a storm though!
No worries, I didn't take your comment as insensitive. Although looking back at the time, yes it was almost like a nightmare. We had no idea if it was going to get worse or not, luckily it didn't.moylanr wrote:Hey I realise my earlier comment about living the dream may have been insensitive now that I see it could have been more like a nightmare at the time, sorry.03Stormchaser wrote:Watched the gust front make land fall at the Ashburton River mouth. Saw quite a few Cg's, a distant waterspout, little rotation in the clouds and hail. Recorded winds gusts of 70kmph on my anemometer.
It was starting to hail and Aaron had just left in his car was it was parked behind mine. As I go to leave (Mike Stewart was in the car aswell) we are hit with a massive wind to the side of my car rocking it violently, then it appeared like it hit on multiple sides of the my wagon (Got a Subaru Grand Wagon, not a very light car at all) I grabbed the steering wheel as tight as I could and yelled at Mikey to hold on, with no idea what was going to happen next. I've been in 100km winds and this was worst than that, I thought we were going to roll at this point. Next second it feels like we are being lifted and I turn around and see my wagon is being lifted then dropped, lifted the dropped, this happened about 4 times. I'm unsure if it was lifting the wheels off the ground or not but it appeared like it was being lifted about a foot, more travel than the suspension.
At some point we slid as well unsure when that was but the whole experience only last probably 5-10 seconds, but felt like forever at the time. Even now 3.5 hrs later I still have that shaky feeling!!
No damage to my car, only noticeable thing that happened was the wing mirrors were bent towards the front.
Whether it was a tornado (waterspout that came ashore), a downburst, or just a strong gust im unsure. But right before packing up we witnessed rotations in the couds heading our way. What ever it was it sure got the blood flowing, wont stop me getting that close to a storm though!
Really appreciate what you guys do, so that we can enjoy extreme weather on screen!
That warrants more than just a post under 'General October'. Who do I recommend to that it gets the award for Storm Chase Services (or Surviors) 2013??
03Stormchaser wrote:Whether it was a tornado (waterspout that came ashore), a downburst, or just a strong gust im unsure. But right before packing up we witnessed rotations in the couds heading our way. What ever it was it sure got the blood flowing, wont stop me getting that close to a storm though!
What direction were those winds coming from?I was chasing a funnel cloud that got around 3-400m off the ground just inland of hinds until it became severly rain wrapped and i could no longer see it. The winds that were among that were amazingly strong, could hardly stay on the road, rather large hail too.
