Possible Storms - 26th Jan

Manukau heads obs · Sun 26/01/2014 18:06

NW wind increasing here, 18.7C only now
12mm of very usefull rain

seej · Unread post by **seej** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:11

Looks like a torrential cell north of Auckland, look out for flooding up there!

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:13

The view on http://www.sitecam.co.nz/auckland_webcam/ was pretty much blotted out by rain at 17:59!

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:20

Wow it's gone dark as dusk here just now... must be about to hit any minute

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:22

huge downpour out NW auckland by the looks on the 60km radar.

Looks dark here but radar shows we wont get much. Hopefully it can develop a bit more. As soon as it hit land it fired up. So it will continue to build as it moves east.

ben g · Unread post by **ben g** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:26

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A few shots from mt Victoria in devonport of the approaching front .

David · Unread post by **David** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:28

Big lightning flash and explosive thunder

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Sun 26/01/2014 18:29

Silverdale Spy reports rain just started + thunder.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 26/01/2014 19:02

wind tending more SW here now...
rain bands still out there are upper level only now...

Vertigo · Unread post by **Vertigo** » Sun 26/01/2014 19:17

I'm seeing some very low cloud bases looking south from Onerahi, Whangarei

Wind picked up significantly as the front just passed over

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 26/01/2014 19:42

Heard thunder here earlier. Some good rain in it but sadly quickly swung to the west. I was BBQ ing on the north varadah at the start. Then te rain was getting me so I went round to the west varadah and after a few mins I was getting wet there so had to wheel it back around to the north varadah.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 26/01/2014 19:59

Just had another big downpour which bumped me up to 15.4mm. Awesome!!!

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 26/01/2014 20:10

18mm in Grey Lynn which was certainly welcome.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 26/01/2014 20:11

It was great to have that rain this evening, always nice to hear thunder as well.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Mon 27/01/2014 07:18

Report of a slightly damaging tornado in Raumati South, near Paraparaumu late yesterday.

'Mini tornado strikes Kapiti' - Stuff

Have my doubts though, as it says 'everything had been blown over in the same direction'. It also says that someone saw a 'tornado-like funnel' pass to the east of Foxton at about 5pm, but that's about 60km further up the coast.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 27/01/2014 21:56

Nev wrote:Report of a slightly damaging tornado in Raumati South, near Paraparaumu late yesterday.

'Mini tornado strikes Kapiti' - Stuff

Have my doubts though, as it says 'everything had been blown over in the same direction'. It also says that someone saw a 'tornado-like funnel' pass to the east of Foxton at about 5pm, but that's about 60km further up the coast.

I doubt this was a tornado. The damage is just way to 'localised'

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