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Well look at that, the second line is doing the same turn to the North of chc like the first one. How lame.

I thought when a NW wind came up about 11.00 that would be it for here but the last half hour i think it will hit here now,very dark to the south with distant rumbles

Terrific photo's you guys!!

Here's how it looking now,the centre of the storm is coming this way too

Couldnt load the photo on the forum,had to load it on photobucket

Continuos thunder in chch just now. Hail to boot

Yes.
A lovely thunderstorm day, here.
2 of them. You don't get that very often
I'm one very happy person

I saw ~6 bits of IC lightning with occasional Thunder here in Hornby. It also had a bit of heavy rain. Does anyone know why the best bits of storms like to skirt the city?

We have had thunderstorms in Oamaru since 1pm .The one at 3.30pm had good CG strikes and big hail .,Our fire sirens at Shag Point were hit by lightning , blew the electronics when we went down to have a look . Oh damn ! Still lots of Cb's floating around Oamaru as I type this

dogmelon wrote: Does anyone know why the best bits of storms like to skirt the city?

No.

The best lightning also had the worst conditions with the arrival of the gust front (recorded 62km/h) and torrential rain/hail briefly reaching 100mm/h ! Rain and hail slush was pouring over the gutters.

Wallcloud lo res panorama

Dunno why it's sideways!

we have only had 1.2mm rain - heaps of flashes and thunder - spoke too soon, its now gusting 34kph SW and hailing

Hail storm just gone through,peas size thankfully

Just back home, not a lot of photos (and no lightning ...) but this gust front looked so cool I don't care.

It was a very defined wall-cloud, wasn't it.

I'm still hoping to hear where the 2 to 2.5cm hail was photographed and observed?

Report of 1.5cm hail at Westerfield.

Beautiful photos Lacertae.

Was coming down mt hutt access road when the storm hit. Huge hail and plenty of lightning. Got a couple small dents in my car too.. Grrrrrr!

Well done Jason. Went for high risk and mentioned the jet stream and onshore winds. Good convective forecasting!

Nice gust front pics.

Not my photo but from near Mt Somers

Wonder what the combined cells will be like when they hit Wellington?

NZstorm wrote:Well done Jason. Went for high risk and mentioned the jet stream and onshore winds. Good convective forecasting!

Nice gust front pics.

Yes, well done.
The hail here was probably marginal for denting cars, nevertheless it was the biggest I've ever seen and I was glad the car was under cover.

A stitched panoramic view I shot just after crossing the Rakaia back towards Christchurch. I wanted to get around the edge of the front to the left by driving towards Southbridge, avoid the rain and hopefully shot some lightning from behind the front but the whole damn thing was wider than I thought ...

Gust Front by Seabird NZ, on Flickr

Great photos, thanks.

What an awesome thunderstorm day!! it can keep these days up on a saturday to, just perfect
Chased with jason and meet up with steve and aaron through out the day. got some big hail in mayfield i beleieve we were? and they would have been 2 to 2.5cm
Some close lightning but none really observed overly well! i did however get 3 lots on film while jason was driving.
Anyways here is my best pic of the gust front , as the 2nd storm moved in!

Also those are some awesome pictures guys to! great to see them from different angles. particuly the one with aaron in it lacatae

Yes, the old gusto front does look dramatic, and the associated wind change and the heavy rain accompanying it, with the added lightning features like today.
Even I closely watched , there was no tornado effect, as the cloud rolled over, despite the active lightning within the cloud, in behind.