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Re: General August Weather

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Tornado Tim wrote: Fri 17/08/2018 16:51 Some storms going off in Canterbury, impressive rain band off the coast.
Dry area around Chch so far. (ominous looking clouds all around)
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Gust front heading this way
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It’s turning rapidly into custard in town, very squally.
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Some very heavy rain in Amberley when I was there just after 6pm, how many mm Tony?

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Re: General August Weather

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Not a drop here yet
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Sleety snow and grauple in Tekapo atm. 3 degrees and dropping
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Sleet here also
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melja wrote: Fri 17/08/2018 19:10 Some very heavy rain in Amberley when I was there just after 6pm, how many mm Tony?

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17mm, most of which fell between 6.30pm and 7.30pm.
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3.5mm here nothing to write home about for our area
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12mm here, so not a lot but something at least.
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We skiff of snow on very tips of the hills between Blenheim and Picton this morning

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Went gathering firewood near Mayfield today and was quite surprised of the lack of snow along the foothills after yesterday's rain event. Mt. Peel had hardly any extra snow on it.
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And the next week is looking tame
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Sat 18/08/2018 19:09 Went gathering firewood near Mayfield today and was quite surprised of the lack of snow along the foothills after yesterday's rain event. Mt. Peel had hardly any extra snow on it.
Fridays rain event was rather interesting as the rain didn't seem to want to move inland. I was working near Fairlie and it was dry most of the the day, doubt there would have been an much more the 0.5mm while as home near Pleasant point it was raining moderately all day with 19mm total for the event.

Only 7cm of new snow on Mt Dobson, Snow looked much thicker on the Hunter hills south of of Timaru than further north..
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Big upper level system sweeping NZ tomorrow with some thundery weather.

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Lewis pass closed due to snow and no road warning from MS, no wonder other forecast sources have sprung up in this country.

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8min later one appears lol

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Just watched a nasty looking cloud roll past pictured above Waikato Hostipal.ImageImage

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Re: General August Weather

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cbm wrote: Mon 20/08/2018 15:58 Just watched a nasty looking cloud roll past pictured above Waikato Hostipal.
Drove through that, was very heavy rain with a bit of hail......
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Reports in the media a tornado has gone through New Plymouth about 5.30pm
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I wouldn't be surprised considering the current weather situation over NZ at the moment.
I saw a tornado-ic form in some high cloud passing from the north to the south this afternoon, whilst chopping firewood.. I didn't take a photo of it as my f-stick is full on my camera and I coudln't be bothered, changing it.
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Just seen footage on the 6 PM news from a tornado going through Taranaki.
Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?
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Video posted to Facebook appearing to be in Ohope Beach area. The presumably Waterspout looks a lot like a Tornado (it's offshore).

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Nice waterspout.
Todays set up looked good for waterspouts with dewpoint of 13-14C and surface winds from the N/NE.
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Good setup for tornadoes today. BOP and Taranaki getting it. I’ve seen structure in the clouds this arvo/evening that was indicative of rotation. So not surprised to hear of tornadoes really.

New line coming in from the west just gave us a rumble. Looks like a CG between raglan and kawhia


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