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Some moderate spillover rain here with the odd heavy burst e.g. 18mm/h about 15 minutes ago.

Yes a bit more than the "odd spot of rain" M/S has in there forecast
Edit: ended up with a handy 7.8mm rain.

A rumble of thunder possible afternoon or evening for west and south Auckland. There has not been much instability this winter.

Yes it has been a quiet season for thunder, perhaps an El Nino Spring will deliver some action.

Cbs are forming in the Tasman but little in the way of thunderstorm activity showing up, the numbers in the GFS do point to a thunder/hail risk today.

A dry day so far, looks like a few heavy showers arriving here in about an hr from the west.

just had a good squall go through here
with some small hail
thunder heard too just now

Thunder heard here, looking black over the Manakau

Very heavy shower in Parnell currently.

From what I observed the thunderstorm was west and south of the Manakau harbour.
Went up Mt Roskill and took a photo

Observed some small hail mixed heavy rain last hour here in Grey Lynn.

Had some thunder in Howick around 5pm -couple of flashes/rumbles east of here.

Fairly decent one-clap-wonder from the cell over SW Waiheke at 5:10pm.
Still dry here on the NW side though.

The snow level is just above the top of the desert road at the moment. I'm sitting up the top and have sleet with the odd flake in the mix.

snapped this just on sunset earlier

Nice photo Brian. Good to see some glaciated convection out there today.

Good photo alright

Getting some much needed rain here at the moment,may it keep up.

Some decent showers coming through this evening, heaviest in some time here

Still waiting for the cold change here, not much rain and still 8C.

Another 6mm here over night to go with the 8mm Monday night

Richard wrote:Being in an area that gets lots of NW wind it can be a bonus this time of year, not the best place for those who suffer from the 'mad dog NWwester' though

There are definitely a fair few people that do suffer from this, there have been an unusually large amount of grumpy people at work lately, will be interesting to see if this number decreases once the cold change comes through today. I hope it does!!!

Got woken by hail at midnight.

Grey Lynn July rainfall is 127mm which is about average I think.

picked up 11mm overnight and maybe a bit more today

Interesting to see Josh step down from CWU today.

Looking like a return to cold snowy weather next weekend

SnwAddct wrote:Looking like a return to cold snowy weather next weekend

Some (but not all) models are predicting the MJO to return to a moderate phase 7 in about a weeks time, which is the phase which favours development of low pressure in the Tasman Sea and over NZ. Expect to see the models favouring troughs and depressions over and around New Zealand for a while around that time frame.