Spring storm 14-15 October

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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Wind has gone NE here now, and sun is out. Its a lovely day!
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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61 kts (111kmh) here and still ramping up
low center basily about to pass over us here

winds here and in the outer hauraki gulf (gusting to 65 kts there) are much stronger than the marine forecast is for
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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is see ive been up to 82km/hr at my place. Hopefully i can top the 92km record but it would be a shame to not be there.
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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gone WSW here now
big gusts coming through
this could cause damage in some places..
this has turned out to be a vicious little low
temperature gone from 20c to 14c now

61kts at bean rock I see :)
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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right so not far away then. Im still N or NNW
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Which topic are we supposed to be in?

Still at a northerly but not rampin up any more. Proably come in very quick and quickly peak
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Still blowing a NW though only light with some good looking cloud build ups to my SW
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Change just gone through. Blew a gale here at work.

At home I recorded 90.7km/h gust with a max 74.9km/h average. Temp went from 20.4*C to 14.2*C in 25 mins and is still dropping.
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Heck, got the max temp so far today and the min so far within 30 min!
Gusting to 72km/hr here and up to 54 sustained, I am liking these weather patterns coming through :)
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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Wow that front intensified with the Daytime heating....
Isolated Strikes over South Waikato, nice :)
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Re: Spring storm 14 October

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wow that has exploded to life. Taupo is about to get clobered. There will no doubt be some very damaging gusts associated with that.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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Turoa webcams. At 12:15pm it was still raining, even up at the Giant at 2060m. Then feezing level dropped and 1 hr later that much snow had fallen even at the base at 1670m, as well as up higher.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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reports from the brother inlaw NW of Taupo of horizontal rain with white out conditions and instant surface flooding when that front went through

Our local school had no power for a couple of hours...I had to bucket water into the toilets...
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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Here is the Last 48 hours of Lightning activity detected by our Blitzortung Network:

Very Impressive :)
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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the north island just needs to be a bit further west....i.e due north above the south island :)
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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OMG
stuff have taken poor old Dan Corbit's on the spot statement about a big dump of rain coming in the next few hours at face value (it passed over hours ago with bugger all rain)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/9282523 ... eads-north
A wind-whipped Auckland is bracing for the next onslaught, a forecast dumping of rain.
there is no big blob of rain still coming......surely they could look at the rain radar themselves and see that its already gone over?
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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Tornado Tim wrote:Very Impressive :)
Whoa! That's for sure.

Imagine if we could harness all that energy.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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bpo wrote:
Imagine if we could harness all that energy.
Electricity that would charge heat-pumps for warmth over the winter months and there would be no need to use fossil fuels for burning for heating. 0_o
It's a shame that they can't "harness" lightning electricity and store it into the national grid. :rolleyes: :yum:
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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We have had a good amount of rain here today. At the Palmerston North airport there has been 46.2mm of rain since midnight and I have recorded 26.9mm. I'm trying to understand why my recorded value was so much lower, when I am only about 5km SSE of the airport. I only replaced my rain gauge in the last 6 months.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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Tornado Tim wrote:Here is the Last 48 hours of Lightning activity detected by our Blitzortung Network:

Very Impressive :)
That is an amazing amount of lightning.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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power is still off in some places in this district

one of the worst wind storms to hit the auckland area from the NW in a few years...and there was not even a gale warning...
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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Got a record equaling gust of 94.4 kmh this morning (equals the record set on 13 October last year)
Also got a record average of 71.9 kmh
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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I am not surprised....
the real time wind observation sites showed these gales developing over the far north around 10am...which then moved down into the eastern hauraki gulf....that was the first warning sign....
there was time to get warnings out..otherwise why have all this real time info if its not used in a timely why?

I was able to warn locals in my area via Facebook not long after 10am that a big NWer was about to hit...because I knew from looking at the sat image, the rain radar, and the sea conditions out to sea, and a rapdily dropping baro,that a severe gale NWer was about to hit this side of the NI (it was at first hitting the eastern side of the north island)

it was a fast developing situation....but it would be cool to have a team like the severe weather forecasters that can get warnings or watches out quickly as condition develop....
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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I see N'ly gusts of 137 km/h were recorded at White Island yesterday and 120 km/h NW gusts at the Mokohinau Islands in the very outer Gulf.
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Re: Spring storm 14-15 October

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A few centimetres of snow overnight here - came as a bit of a surprise!!
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