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Hopefully this system later next week will provide some wet relief for those places that need it?

Yea it is shoing dome promise. It is showing signs of having convective abilities. Wait and see i suppose

In oamarau, Just got hit by the biggest hail stones I've seen, at least 15mm it was awsome! Typical , when the sky gets really mean I didn't have a camera

Yes storms have fired up over North Otago and South Canterbury this afternoon, upper air is cold enough and I didn't really expect to see sunshine and onshore NE winds today either.
So could be storms in the coming hours.

Sunny here at times with some beefy cloud build ups about.

ben g wrote:In oamarau, Just got hit by the biggest hail stones I've seen, at least 15mm it was awsome! Typical , when the sky gets really mean I didn't have a camera

Just little for the South Island!!

Some heavy showers in Timaru about an hour ago, No hail but did hear one clap of thunder.

This cell to my SE managed to chuck out a few strikes around 3.00,now another new one to the N has managed a few rumbles as well.

Looks like Ashburton is about to get smashed by hail

Thankyou, I've put the car under cover.
Edit to add: system looks mean on the radar.

Lightning, thunder, etc. here now.

Seeing some brilliant bolts of lightning in the southerly quarter, thunder 5 seconds or less after. Hard to tell which thunder belongs to which lightning-stroke now!

Raining, getting heavy. Lightning and thunder now to north as well as south. 10.8 degrees.

Rain still heavy and from easterly direction, maybe even backing to NE. 9.3 degrees.

Looking nice to the south from here, with some good uplfts.
Even saw a stumpy spout lowering from the base line of Cu:D

Looking bleak towards TC but I think the system is weakening .

A couple of lightning flashes observed in TC but no thunder, just now

I've never seen cloud convergence on the Auckland rain radar like that before. It looks like some clouds are moving south east, while the others are moving north east...

1/2 hr ago low cloud heading west then south, while medium height cloud moving southeast over Westlake/Halswell area.

Small hail in Riccarton now

Severe tstorm warning issued should make cricket in hagley interestng

That was a good loud crack of thunder here in Hornby. Not bad.

Nice fork or Cg came down@ 7:21pm, just close to here, to the west.
3 seconds before the thunder although it wasn't all that loud and significant has regard to the lightning flash?
A bit muffled?
Anyway ,it was when the southerly come through round that time.
Steady ran then but now it has eased a bit and the winds have dropped down.
No hail here, thank goodness.

03Stormchaser wrote:http://www.metservice.com/warnings/seve ... m-warnings

Did anyone save it? It's gone now & would have been good to have been able to take a quick gander.