Some nice shots of the lightning around Auckland on the TV One news this evening.
Got annoyed when they said that NZ as a country got the thunderstorms, when it was mainly around the North Island, especially Auckland .
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 19:49
by ScottyD
This is looking SE from South Auckland towards Thames. Nice cell going up.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 19:52
by ScottyD
No idea how to rotate that picture
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 20:15
by 03Stormchaser
scottiedavies wrote: ↑Sat 15/12/2018 19:52
No idea how to rotate that picture
When you click it, it seems to rotate correctly lol
Nice photo I should add!
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 20:37
by GraemeWi
The massive anvil streaming away from that cb shows well on the radar
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Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 20:44
by jamie
That Thames cell looks amazing right now. Can’t get a photo to do it justice. I should get a nice lightning show from it.
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Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 20:44
by ScottyD
GraemeWi wrote: ↑Sat 15/12/2018 20:37
The massive anvil streaming away from that cb shows well on the radar
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There's some good mammatus visible on the underside of that anvil as it's crept closer
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 20:50
by ScottyD
Photos don’t really do it justice.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 21:08
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
scottiedavies wrote: ↑Sat 15/12/2018 20:50
Photos don’t really do it justice.
Nice shots there scottie, but I had to lie down to view
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 21:11
by ScottyD
I know! Can't figure out why thumbnails come up like that, but when you click on them they're fine. Anyway, I was lying down watching the light show last night.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sat 15/12/2018 23:12
by Simon Culling
A funnel cloud was also reported at Taupo on the 14th according to a tweet from MetService:
Notice on the day that the storms went right through the night it appears as if they were building on a big outflow boundary that was moving NE. The radar time lapse shows something of that nature.
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Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sun 16/12/2018 09:35
by NZstorm
That was an impressive anvil last evening from a small thunderstorm near Thames.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sun 16/12/2018 10:07
by Richard
Noticed a large rotation on the 13th at 8.22pm moving down the western side of Lake Taupo that ended up still rotating by the time it reached the northern Ruahine ranges
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sun 16/12/2018 10:38
by spwill
Another photo of the storm over Pukekohe.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sun 16/12/2018 19:44
by David
I noticed quite an intense shower popped up near the Auckland/Waikato border this afternoon, a PWS at Mangatawhiri recorded 25mm in an hour. Not sure whether it had any lightning though.
Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Sun 16/12/2018 21:21
by jamie
jamie wrote:Gone for a drive to find hail as it was just sliding past my house. Big flash flooding in Gordonton.
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This storm delivered 100mm to a rain gauge in Gordonton. Not sure on how long it took to fall but I would think no more than an hour. I wasn’t too surprised to hear of 100mm when I saw the amount of flooding in paddocks and across roads.
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Re: Widespread T-Storms 11-16 Dec
Posted: Wed 19/12/2018 20:25
by GraemeWi
This was the view of the Saturday cell from Swanson that approached from the north-west with so much potential and fell apart as it arrived. I'd be up at Waimauku earlier in the day and had seen it build and build to the west. Rushed home to tie the trampoline down which in hindsight caused the cell to fall apart before it got to us.
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