Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Nice anvil forming at TC now..
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Distant large white cloud bubbled up suddenly to my south.
Edit to add: another one to my NNE.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Glorious clear afternoon in chch, everyone i come across is slagging off the metservice and the press re the weather. Lets hope we get some action!
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Glorious clear afternoon in chch, everyone i come across is slagging off the metservice and the press re the weather. Lets hope we get some action!

Oh no I wouldn't mock it quite yet...people are funny creatures ;)
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Powermad wrote:Nice anvil forming at TC now..
Yes. I can see it from here. Seems the incus part is broken off and drifting away to the south- east.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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cantygal wrote:Glorious clear afternoon in chch, everyone i come across is slagging off the metservice and the press re the weather. Lets hope we get some action!

Oh no I wouldn't mock it quite yet...people are funny creatures ;)
i couldn't agree more
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Powermad wrote:Nice anvil forming at TC now..
Yes. I can see it from here. Seems the incus part is broken off and drifting away to the south- east.
It turned easterly here about 15 minutes ago and I think it killed the structure..
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Razor wrote:Glorious clear afternoon in chch, everyone i come across is slagging off the metservice and the press re the weather. Lets hope we get some action!
Media doesn't help...
Radio weather reports are quite often wrong.
Some stations seem to tweak the forecasts to suit.Yesterdays local paper also warned of further storms for the wrong day.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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I agree Deano and all MetService based forecasts I believe with radio stations.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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cantygal wrote:I agree Deano and all MetService based forecasts I believe with radio stations.
it needs to get sorted, somehow....but god knows how. Its the umpteenth occasion in recent weeks when the press has ran metservice 'watches', and called them 'warnings', and the public have had enough of the 'false alarms'- 9 out of ten people in Christchurch no longer believe it when bad weather is forecast. Its back to the bad old days of the 80's.

Its not a good result for anyone.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Paul Gorman from the PRESS rang me up wanting a contact number for Aaron Wilkinson.
If anyone has it could they PM me.
I told him that a few were going out there to chase. He mentioned about someone from the PRESS going along with any of you guys. :smile:
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Widespread storms seem to be happening, but only south of Timaru so far according to radar.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Ideal conditions...fine and warm,24 degrees in town here,sunny,dewpoint 13.
Clouds building to the south
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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The anvil I photographed earlier is now heading north rumbling.. dumping a TON of rain or hail..
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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The anvil I photographed earlier is now heading north rumbling.. dumping a TON of rain or hail
That cells looks promising. The ideal surface wind to get the cell cranking would be NE.
A NE means warm inflow that avoids the precip core.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Looked good up this way round Rangiora a few hours ago but then when the NE came in it all came apart and now no clouds to speak off even inland along the foothills.
Radar looks to show it going very fast out to sea as it moves north, and I cant see much getting much past timaru but hay we may get a night time thunder storm.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Powermad wrote:The anvil I photographed earlier is now heading north rumbling.. dumping a TON of rain or hail..
I can see that also from here. It's different anvil or incus but from the same system that dissipated earlier.
Long cloud layer to the south looks ominous and could produce something eventful later as the southerly moves north. :-k
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Seems to be an event out to sea so far as the radar is looking from here on in
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Looks like back edge of any precipitation is just south of Oamaru .We have had a decent thunderstorm this afternoon with lots of lightning mostly in cloud . continuous thunder, heavy rain and hail about 1cm in size for about 30 minutes from 3-3.30pm
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Just witness a small meso pass over. Multiple small funnel clouds, rangitata river
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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The cell off the coast north of timaru has green in it!
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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On radar, it appears not to be tracking as far out to sea as I had hoped...
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Orion wrote:On radar, it appears not to be tracking as far out to sea as I had hoped...
Yes indeed, worth watching for a while just to make sure!
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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This may be the one that steve has mentioned about.
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Re: Thunderstorms - 14th - 18th December, 2013

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Just heard thunder from east or SE.
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