General May Weather

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 08/05/2014 14:37

Torrential rain for the past 20 mins here at the hamilton airport.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 08/05/2014 14:57

another good CB line approaching from the NW and which is lightning active...Blitzortung is picking it up, yah!

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 08/05/2014 14:59

Has been some towering Cu around here, better looking clouds Waikato way.
Cloudy 20C.

Yes a heavy shower line showing up west of Northland/Ak

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 08/05/2014 18:46

Manukau heads obs wrote: nice rain...was needing a bit more...grass growing well with the warm weather too and soil temperature still 17C

god, we don't more of that here.

Bring on the frosts.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Thu 08/05/2014 19:02

Had a tropical shower here about 6.15pm with one flash and rumble. Recorded 8mm.

Manukau heads obs · Thu 08/05/2014 19:17

did not look like much on the rain radar ...due to what seems to be a bit of shadowing that occurs for the radar signal for main Auckland isthmus area...I have noticed....

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 08/05/2014 19:43

We just had a good tropical drop. Can also hear distant rumbles to my north.

ben g · Unread post by **ben g** » Thu 08/05/2014 20:07

Only one flash here and very minimal rain, teasing me. Some pics from my mates mate.

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Edit, sorry they are all jumbled up..

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Thu 08/05/2014 20:19

I noticed the odd distant flash east of Auckland last 20mins on my evening walk.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 08/05/2014 20:53

Drizzling here now.

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 08/05/2014 21:56

I think you may have to eat your hat too, im sure you said you would if we didn't get thunder this week

Edit: or was that for the westcoast.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 08/05/2014 22:05

melja wrote:I think you may have to eat your hat too, im sure you said you would if we didn't get thunder this week

Edit: or was that for the westcoast.

Well it was for the West Coast, what I really referring too was that if I looked out of the window after it was dark, a distant flash could be seen over the mountains. There was 'one or 2' distant flashes in that direction on Monday night before the gale force NW hit here just after midnight on Tuesday morning.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Fri 09/05/2014 00:01

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:
melja wrote:I think you may have to eat your hat too, im sure you said you would if we didn't get thunder this week

Edit: or was that for the westcoast.
Well it was for the West Coast, what I really referring too was that if I looked out of the window after it was dark, a distant flash could be seen over the mountains. There was 'one or 2' distant flashes in that direction on Monday night before the gale force NW hit here just after midnight on Tuesday morning.

Lucky hat. This time

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 09/05/2014 07:11

Afternoon heating will contribute to an isolated thunderstorm risk for Auckland today. Not much CAPE there but a forecast temp of 19C would help.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Fri 09/05/2014 07:37

Razor wrote:.

Lucky hat. This time[/quote]

Have to start making a few chocolate hats,could then make all sorts of bold weather predictions then

Orion · Unread post by **Orion** » Fri 09/05/2014 08:03

Mist has drifted in, visibility around 100m; 5.1 degrees.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Fri 09/05/2014 09:13

Nice Hail laden cell in central south Waikato atm

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 09/05/2014 10:11

there is a thunder shower sliding just to the south of me here at home. Can here rumbles here

That cell down near the dam lakes is a doozy

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 09/05/2014 10:15

Just got back from a morning walk with about 30 seconds to spare! Could see the dark clouds moving in faster than I anticipated, so had to walk real quick

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 09/05/2014 10:53

I am on the northern tip of the stuff to my south. So i am in the updraft section of the cell and we have some incredbly turbulent sky above us at the moment. Looks very heavy to my south (hamilton). We have a more northern cell moving in behind this one so we should have some rain soon too.

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Fri 09/05/2014 10:58

Mammatus forming over Auckland, as seen from Takapuna.

Tornado Tim · Unread post by **Tornado Tim** » Fri 09/05/2014 11:07

Thunder in Matangi

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 09/05/2014 11:28

has been ongoing distant thunder all morning here until that ripper. That rumbled for about 20 seconds and viabrated the floor of the house.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 09/05/2014 11:31

That radar image is classic of the upper jet catching that cell an blowing it over towards the south, the core build is on the western side where decent hail and or a possible funnel/ small tornado could form provided other ingrediants come into play.

Not much here in the way of rain overnight which I am sure many in the city and rural mid to north Canterbury farmers will be happy with, just 1.3mm from patchy light rain/drizzle.
Although a small wet feature has popped up on the models for this Tuesday now, delivering possibly a further 30+mm

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 09/05/2014 11:42

awesome overhread thunder has been going crazy for the past 20 mins. This was much unexpected

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