Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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That nasty SW quadrant is delivering. Auckland airport diverting all flight now....

990.9 hPa still dropping here.
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Chris W wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 21:43 Chch and North Canterbury coastline on for a moderate storm risk all day tomorrow now, with the afternoon risk going all the way up to Gisborne.

http://www.metservice.com/warnings/thunderstorm-outlook
If so will be out to shore, but I'm not expecting anything here locally.
Shame it is not this evening.
Would be nice to see a light show out to the east :smile:
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Cyclone Tracy wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 21:46 That nasty SW quadrant is delivering. Auckland airport diverting all flight now....

990.9 hPa still dropping here.
Will be interesting to see how strong it gets when it finally turns SW
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 20:30
Dean. wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 18:30

Expect a lot less action in these type of flows living In Geraldine than West Melton.South Canterbury often sheltered in this set up.We had sleet/hail showers up until lunchtime with another brief shower now,most of the action now will be north of Ashburton.
Yes. your right on this. Much of the stuff moves up through the Canterbury Bight and onto land west to east and south of ChCh. WM would be getting a bit of more substantial stuff from this weather than here. :smile:
Frequent hail showers since about 4pm here. Still coming in thick and fast. Been waiting for a bang of thunder as some stones have been up to 10mm in diameter today so good pea size.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Very gusty shower going through now.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Temps now near 0C in central NI, with precipitation too. Snow level could be lower than 700m forecast. Same for Remutaka Hill summit.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Thundering and snowing in the hill suburbs around Dunedin
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Thunder being heard in halswell and noticed a couple flashes to the S now out to sea
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Snow on the webcam at Waiouru. The town is at about 800m.

9C with precip in Auckland currently.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Will be interesting to see how much damage is across Auckland at daybreak. Standard tree damage but there was some quite destructive gusts for a 2 hour period last night. Bottomed here around 990.9, had a gust of 65 km/h which is significant for my position with a westerly. Not surprised the bridge got 133 km/h.

Nice SW stream coming off the 20c Tasman now, air temp 9c here. Wet morning coming up.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Cyclone Tracy wrote: Wed 11/04/2018 06:29
Nice SW stream coming off the 20c Tasman now, air temp 9c here. Wet morning coming up.
We may get pea hail/rumble today.
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We had thunder here in Rakaia around 5am this morning. Currently a good strong southerly and having a look at the metservice just now it seems these 35 to 40 km/h winds will continue throughtout the daylight hours. Will certainly make driving the bus interesting.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Only maxed at 74km/h on my station. Pretty high for a NW for my location. Was surprised it didn't go above that when it turned SW as that is a stronger direction here.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Minor tree damage around here however there are a couple of streets blocked by fallen trees. We don't get much strong wind here and last night was the strongest wind I have experienced in Auckland. The main wind storm only lasted a couple of hours


GFS is showing a humid thundery trough over the upper North Island at the weekend.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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My Silverdale Spy reports a poplar tree down that just missed the house, and no power last night or this morning.
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I see there are now questions in media about why there was no adequate warning :rolleyes:

Even though the Metservice warning for 120 km/h gusts was issued well in advance (which was quite accurate since most areas of Auckland would not have exceeded this)
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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A relatively chilly 7.2C here this morn. Lost power for a little while last night, although parts of Waiheke were still without power this morn. Waiheke ferries were cancelled after 8pm last night and I see Akld Aero was also closed overnight due to debris on the runway.

Highest town/city gusts yesterday according to MS…

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David wrote: Wed 11/04/2018 08:18 I see there are now questions in media about why there was no adequate warning :rolleyes:

Even though the Metservice warning for 120 km/h gusts was issued well in advance (which was quite accurate since most areas of Auckland would not have exceeded this)
And fair enough to have criticism, but media should be critical of themselves, not forcasters. The metservice clearly had warnings in place, but they can only do so much. They rely on the media to spread the word and it seems that this storm wasn't a high priority for the media. They tell us about cyclones 2 weeks in advance, yet this storm barely rated a mention. Maybe because it wasn't a cyclone, is wasn't going to generate the clickbait?

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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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tunster wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 16:49
Richard wrote: Tue 10/04/2018 15:52 I did pick a good time to be in Melbourne, 28.3 deg and muggy here, the family members left back home say there's no snow on the ground but i see there's been 45.2mm as of now
Muggy? RH only about 35% across the area an hour ago (dewpoints around 10C or so).
Thats interesting, felt higher than that, a TV screen in the post office during the morning showed a forecast 75%
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Up to 20mm for the day now, 33mm for the thread. Lovely moisture advection streaming going on into Auckland.

Here is my 2 bobs worth on the Media and Cyclone topic :smile: viewtopic.php?f=2&p=174430#p174430
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Have heard several distant rumbles of thunder in the past fifteen minutes or so.
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Hail here and 9C.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Brightened up a bit here, temp up to 14C.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Just heard a couple of rumbles of thunder from the NW of here after a heavy shower. Lightning was just a flash in the cloud.
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Re: Low pressure sequence April 10 - 14

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Still showery at times in Chch this morning; some hail earlier. Snow on Mt Herbert.
I've seen photos of exceptionally early snow on Mt Pirongia and Tarawera this morning.
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