Prolonged strong W - SW winds starting 3 Oct

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Re: Prolonged strong W - SW winds starting 3 Oct

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The wind has just caused a large glass panel of a shop awning in central Hamilton to fall and smash on a parked car. Yet there is officially no strong wind warning in place for here. I think that there is a case to calibrate wind warnings against what windspeeds an area usually receives.
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cbm wrote:The wind is making the high rise building I work in creak and move. 85km gust at Hamilton airport must be close to a record. I see Rototua airport has just had a 104km gust.
You may have also creaked slightly in the 5.1 Murupara deep subduction quake just before too..
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Yes, ironic that. I was thinking the last time this building creaked and moved like this was during the 6.6 Seddon quake.
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Re: Prolonged strong W - SW winds starting 3 Oct

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Looks like the strongest winds have not reached any further north than the Waikato
nothing out of the ordinary here...but much stronger (relatively to what they normally get) in Hamilton
and very strong for a time over the lower NI (Taranaki to Hawkes bay)
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Yes, we're getting it, and Tauranga and Rotorua, North and South of that zone, not so much, or at least not so much compared to what is normal.
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I see Jamie has had over 90kmh ....
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They haven't been full on SW yet is why theyre not at maximum strength here yet though veering more now.
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Ended up with 16mm from today's weather,8mm from the west first thing and 8mm with the cold front
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Radar cranked up a few gears to the south of here ! Looks like a band of thunder and hail moving north as per Metservice's updated forecast.
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Thunderstorm to the west of here moving north out of TC :D
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Yes looking interesting on the radar,anyone got there camera's out
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Looks quite severe south of the Rangitata,suprised Metservice haven't issued a warning
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Nothing out of the ordinary here, maximum gust 55 km/h. Saturday was windier.
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Thunderstorm eased down now but some nice wiggly pink CC lightning observed. :smile:
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Re: Prolonged strong W - SW winds starting 3 Oct

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It became quite dark here over the last few minutes, now raining with a bit of hail.
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That thunderstorm passed directly over me, lots of lightning and thunder and hail, temp got down to 2.5C with snow mixed with rain in the heavier falls. Next to no wind though
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Cloudy but dry in Akaroa now. Had briefly heavy rain late this morning with the initial southerly change.
MetService site down at moment, so hard to access up to date radar. :mad:
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Rain now easing here with SW winds dropping away.
Annoying that I couldn't follow it on the radar, but never-mind.
Another possible frost in the morning?
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Just started raining again, well sleeting. Only 3deg and dropping
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Great lightning display at about 7.30pm then heavy rain thats turned to snow with huge flakes,wish i knew how much longer its going to last for.
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Richard wrote:Great lightning display at about 7.30pm then heavy rain thats turned to snow with huge flakes,wish i knew how much longer its going to last for.
How high are you Richard?
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matttbs wrote:
Richard wrote:Great lightning display at about 7.30pm then heavy rain thats turned to snow with huge flakes,wish i knew how much longer its going to last for.
How high are you Richard?
We are at 238 asl and i see the forecast was for 500m,but the snow has gone back to rain again.

Had a total of 38mm so far today,best rain for months.
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matttbs wrote:
Richard wrote:Great lightning display at about 7.30pm then heavy rain thats turned to snow with huge flakes,wish i knew how much longer its going to last for.
How high are you Richard?
I think he was about 5 ft 8 inches, the last time I saw him ;) :crazy:
..but seriously. Good to see that you had the lightning that probably redeveloped as it travelled further north from what was observed from here. :D
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The thunderstorms flared up really quickly and also died down quickly, so by the time we hit the road it was just a really heavy rain band with sleet and some flakes inland of Rakaia.
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Yeah hit and miss chase tonight, pretty much had to stop cooking tea and just go, but by the time we got down to rakaia she had all but died.
Saw some good sleet though inland from rakaia so made it all worth it :P
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