Convective Period- 18th to 23rd Nov

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Re: Convective Period- 18th to 23rd Nov

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Crap going nuts in Matangi now! just got back after a chase in Karipiro!
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Crap the lightning is nuts, the crack and instant boom CG type!
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interesting the rain radar shows rain in this area...but its not...but its black as...i.e its showing rain in the clouds...that cant fall below the clouds because of the updrafts
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Green core!
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Like a cyclone in Hamilton city centre right now. Rain so horizontal it's almost going upwards.
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darn we missed out big time here. Just 2mm from this. Just west, hundreds of meters down the road there would have been 10+mm and then even further west there was surface flooding. I followed it after noticing it was going to skip west of me.

Could have really done with 25mm like i see Tim managed.
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close lightning and loud thunder here
and rain getting heavy....was what looked like cloud burst rain just NW of me...but that is back building down onto us here
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:-# spoken too soon maybe. New front on that line just developing and coming my way
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still thunder and lightning here...just to my NW :)
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Went for a drive down to Manukau but the storm was out over the harbour and looked to be moving NW towards Maunukau heads!
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Lots of thunder here but no rain. Looks to be slipping up the coast to the west of here. Has been interesting observing flights into Auckland changing course to avoid tge storm - just before 6pm an Air NZ B777 from Brisbane was almost skimming the treetops over Laingholm, taking an unusual flight path.
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yup,have seen some good bolts..and close to some of the planes too :)
getting nice rain here from the anvil
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Great to see some action today. Lightning and thunder is always nice. Gutted we missed the rain tho. We need it. Looks like some places really coped a drenching
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Great thunder here now (still no rain...)
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That Manukau storm developed about 4pm and is still going!
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A pity I dont own a DSLR camera, those cells really did chuck out the bolts. The possies really stuck out!
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Lightning distant thunder to west.
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Had one massive crash of thunder at exactly 7pm with accompanying power surge, closely followed by Volly Fire Brigade siren. Sounds like more on the way, thunder getting closer once again.
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its tracking slowly NW though...looks just a bit of extra energy over the waitakere ranges

was a very nice thunder storm here
was great to watch it all develop right over us

6.4mm of rain...great for the pototoes re have put in :)
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A few photos from my afternoon in Waikato.
Saw storms with hail at Mercer/ Bombay mid afternoon then I went down to Ngaruawahia and Huntly late afternoon, more lightning and heavy rain down there.
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Late thunderstorms developed over inland Southland I see.
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Awesome photos guys! great reports! :)
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Unfortunately this setup wasnt photogenic, since the storms were on a line there was hardly any sun when you were around a storm also they were loaded with rain....

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Here is Matangi Weather Station Graph for Today, the Max Rain rate during the storm was 202.2mm/hr (Instantaneous rate).
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Cool pics! Yes NZstorm, noticed those storms over inland Southland, was waiting for them to pop this evening. Would've been some great evening lightning down there.

If that sort've thing happens next summer I'll be tempted to do a bit of travelling :D
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