General September Weather

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Thu 10/09/2015 15:44

91km/h gust at the airport.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Thu 10/09/2015 15:48

Torrential rain here. Came out of nowhere!

dogmelon · Unread post by **dogmelon** » Thu 10/09/2015 15:50

The cloud roiling dust and that scary roar of the wind approaching had be going there for a moment. I knew it wasn't a tornado but survival instincts must have overridden logic because I rushed inside in a panic!

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Thu 10/09/2015 16:03

According to Stuff...

A strong southerly storm has hit Christchurch, bringing heavy rain and lightening.

I would have said it brought more of a darkening...

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Thu 10/09/2015 16:10

Just had the change here, magnificent sky with cloud exploding and rolling in all directions. I remember many of these type of changes in the 82/83 season.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 10/09/2015 17:15

Came through here about 4.45pm with a SSE wind, not as strong as it sounds like at the airport.

matttbs · Unread post by **matttbs** » Thu 10/09/2015 18:06

Came through here around 3:50pm with torrential rain, hail, thunder, lightning and the max gust was 86kmph. Got 9mm before I left to go tho Chch so will be interesting to see how much more I got.

Richard · Unread post by **Richard** » Thu 10/09/2015 18:10

That front only brought 1mm of rain

trickytiger · Unread post by **trickytiger** » Thu 10/09/2015 18:14

got 2.2mm here, unsure on what the windspeed was due to the anemometer still not being high enough to catch the southerly but was strong enough to make it hard to walk into

melja · Unread post by **melja** » Thu 10/09/2015 18:21

Up to 7mm so far here.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Thu 10/09/2015 21:15

12mm here, still getting showers through

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 10/09/2015 21:54

Having trouble with my modem/router at the moment, must get a new one.
Anyway, cold front came through@ 3:15pm here. Nice one , a predecessor for the current stormy spring weather to come. No lightning seen but a couple of late rumbles of thunder heard to the SE, as it rolled on through.
Winds very strong here at the onset with one or two string gusts. Temperature droppage was noticeable too.

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Thu 10/09/2015 23:17

im currently working out in greendale near hororata, will be there tomorrow aswel so be interesting to see how it shapes up again. friday iv been eyeing up all week as the best bet for storms in canterbury.
Didnt take much notice of today but TCU was visable from lunch time, as it formed over the foothill areas, was rather ominious when it turnd into a storm.
No photos at all as i was working and didnt have my camera on me anyway, oh well

Area51 · Unread post by **Area51** » Fri 11/09/2015 08:50

Nice line of thunder showers drifting over southern districts of Auckland this morning with good lightning and thunder over Ardmore Airfield around 8.30am.

shovelopikis · Unread post by **shovelopikis** » Fri 11/09/2015 08:52

Reports of snow in taranaki this morning, 300masl. Through central stratford region.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 11/09/2015 08:56

Got strange hail here at the Tuakau bridge over the Waikato river. Quite soft and breaking up on the windscreen.

littleheaven · Unread post by **littleheaven** » Fri 11/09/2015 09:50

Just had a nasty little squall pass over here in Glenfield/Bayview. Small hail and some really strong wind gusts - I don't have an accurate anemometer but would guess by the way the house creaked that they were up over 80kmph. It was all over in a matter of minutes and now back to fitful showers.

David · Unread post by **David** » Fri 11/09/2015 09:51

For some reason NZ Herald has an article about thunderstorms and hail expected for Auckland today?
Yet the Metservice thunderstorm outlook only showing low risk for this evening/tonight

petem8nz · Unread post by **petem8nz** » Fri 11/09/2015 10:21

Chch Storm from yesterday. My photo's while driving. The last one I saw on the net this morning over Brighton - kinda skeptical about that photo I don't recall it being that good over my place.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Fri 11/09/2015 10:33

David wrote:For some reason NZ Herald has an article about thunderstorms and hail expected for Auckland today?
Yet the Metservice thunderstorm outlook only showing low risk for this evening/tonight

For some reason the media have got hold of a story that is unrepresentative of today's weather.
There is a robust shortwave coming in tonight but it is starved of instability and capable of only isolated strikes in the west by the looks.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Fri 11/09/2015 10:43

David wrote:For some reason NZ Herald has an article about thunderstorms and hail expected for Auckland today?
Yet the Metservice thunderstorm outlook only showing low risk for this evening/tonight

That story was written earlier this morn. Last night MS had a moderate risk for Akld today, but that was downgraded in this morn's update. Their Severe Weather Watch for severe SW gales last night and early this morn has also been dropped.

Manukau heads obs · Fri 11/09/2015 11:42

was windy here overnight. just shy of near gale strength

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Fri 11/09/2015 11:46

Bloody windy in those squalls this morning. Lots of hail in them too.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Fri 11/09/2015 12:10

petem8nz wrote:Chch Storm from yesterday. My photo's while driving. The last one I saw on the net this morning over Brighton - kinda skeptical about that photo I don't recall it being that good over my place.

That last pic was taken by Rob Dickinson from New Brighton 3 years ago (see link here and here)

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 11/09/2015 12:12

Yesterday's change very typical of what this spring should produce being el nino, another chance later today although not as good as yesterday.
Not as warm at the surface and a lack of moisture but upper air is quite cold plus very strong upper level winds, could be enough to get some weak cells going for a time.

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