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Re: General October Weather

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Orion wrote: ↑Sun 22/10/2017 18:31 A brisk southerly bustling through here now.
Yeah! the southerly moved through here a while or so before it hit Ashburton, dropping the temperture down from 19.7C to 14.2C in about a half an hour.
Most of the scud was out to the east of here.
Scud can be the downfall of any southerly change, which happened so many times when we were in West Melton. Had high hopes there, for the day but as soon as you saw scud or fractus, you knew that the southerly change was going to result into something usesless.
I'm not looking forward to anything tomorrow.
Coming onto drizzle here at the moment.
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Re: General October Weather

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I was out on the Otago Peninsula as the southerly came through, miserable! Better before and after closer to town, although chilly this evening.
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Re: General October Weather

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Very cold air at the 700mb level over east of the South Island today. As low as -8C. A low topped thunderstorm might occur somewhere, South Canterbury maybe.
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Re: General October Weather

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Not here, not with a NW wind thats currently blowing, unless it dies out which i cant see.
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Re: General October Weather

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Miserable day here today. Currently 7°C and raining.
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Re: General October Weather

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NZstorm wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 08:09 A low topped thunderstorm might occur somewhere, South Canterbury maybe.
Nothing here at the moment. :|
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 14:04
NZstorm wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 08:09 A low topped thunderstorm might occur somewhere, South Canterbury maybe.
Nothing here at the moment. :|
Conditional on surface heating.

I see a weak La Nina is officially occurring. That could be good for summer for a lot of regions, particularly inland places like Central Otago.
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Re: General October Weather

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Rain-radar looks interesting just west of Lake Ellesmere at the moment, pink, purple... 0_o
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That would be this. Looking south from rolleston right now
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And from my webcam in Templeton at 3pm:
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severe thunderstorm warning:
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On to it. Post photos later. Busy chasing this.. Big hail about 20mm. Nice wall cloud lowering.
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Re: General October Weather

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I can see the cloud to the south. Looks like it'll hit the Lyttelton Harbour area rather than Chch city.
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Re: General October Weather

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Very dark just north of Geraldine, sporadic large raindrops here.
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tich wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 15:40 I can see the cloud to the south. Looks like it'll hit the Lyttelton Harbour area rather than Chch city.
Looks like Lyttelton missed out and it swept over the peninsula instead, the red in the radar petering out over Mt Herbert.
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Re: General October Weather

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Small supercell storm today, just cell photos as waiting on a news lens to arrive.

First near Leeston looking. Non stop thunder and CC lightning & hit with 15mm hail
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Re: General October Weather

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A couple of peals of thunder banging around here at the moment.
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Incoming round 2 at Rakaia. Can't upload a photo but it's darkening rapidly.
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Re: General October Weather

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Nice pitures there Steve and Mikey. :smile:
I saw it quickly develop on the radar as it moved out of the old TC and headed east over the Rakaia River with lots of red and other colours to denote hail.
Been rather cloudy down here so not expecting much but now picking up a few sferics which I suspect is what Orion is getting/hearing in Ashburton.
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Lightning was obseved frm town, Riccarton and then from here at Halswell Rd.
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Re: General October Weather

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Another band of thunderstorms with hail moving northeast over the Canterbury Plains now (6pm).
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Re: General October Weather

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Weather Watcher wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 18:09 Another band of thunderstorms with hail moving northeast over the Canterbury Plains now (6pm).
That's the source of the thunder I've been hearing; there's still another band of rain approaching from the south however.
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Weather Watcher wrote: ↑Mon 23/10/2017 18:09 Another band of thunderstorms with hail moving northeast over the Canterbury Plains now (6pm).
There is still alot of instability around but it's cooling off now so not sure how long they will last. The CBS look low topped aswel. Winds turned onshore from The S-SE now to witch the models suggested around this time anyway
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Re: General October Weather

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:mrgreen: Meant to say, mikestormchaser, thanks for the photos _b
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