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Looking like a another nice day for Auckland to finish the month.

Some airmass destabilisation in the Bay of Plenty this afternoon with a low topped thunderstorm or two and small hail on the cards.
Possibly as far west as eastern Waikato. 500mb -28C.

NZstorm wrote:Looking like a another nice day for Auckland to finish the month.

I picked a good day to have off work it seems

A Cb has just developed over the Waitaks near the Manakau Heads.

Todays isolated thunder risk a bit further west than we thought. Hunua ranges this afternoon?

Hearing Thunder here from the Cb to the west, first heat storm of the season

Pea hail here at Ranui, West Auckland.

Wow! https://twitter.com/DailyDoseOfNish/sta ... 1783720961

Thunder here just now from the Cb just to our west.

Some of the hail stones about 1cm.

Been some nice CG's.

Looks like more storms forming in South Auckland now

Has stayed dry at my place, more clouds building southwest of here.

wow south Auckland getting smashed looking at the radar. Gutted I'm not in the area working today.

Distant thunder heard from Howick just now, looking dark to the south.

The showers around Puke/ Bombay are very photogenic

Lots of thunder here, rain just started. It sounds like multiple cells.

cloud tops just south of here
I'm stuck at home today working, clouds are building this way.

Wow - best action we've had around here for a very long time. Sounds like its overhead.

Good size hail as well

it looks to be building SSE towards me. However we have very dry air here unless a sea breeze kicks in soon. So I don't expect it to live very long if its tapping into dry air.

Wind has switched from sea breeze to be wind in waiuku. So showers might b out flow dominant now

Lucky buggers up there, doesn't sound like the storms were big enough to set out warnings tho. Here's a link by nz http://m.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article ... d=11738937

....bloody Auckland again

Interesting day considering thunderstorms were not predicted for the area.

Previous runs of the gfs were placing the CAPE in the Bay of Plenty. But turns out it was much further west over Auckland!
We had a 500mb vorticity lobe right over the tops of us which would have helped with lifting the air.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:....bloody Auckland again

It's OK John we will get our turn. You can't beat a Canterbury thunderstorm day with a good severe set up on the plains.

I'm not sure if this local facebook video will share - Candia road, Swanson, Ranui area

https://www.facebook.com/leanne.reid.58 ... =3&theater