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Some of the rain gauges on the west coast council page showing hourly totals over 40mm late morning today

The bridge at Arundel is also closed so there's no detour available.

Updates from Timaru District Council re river and roading:

https://www.timaru.govt.nz/news-and-eve ... tata-river

Some crazy totals for the coast alright, that front is on the top of the souths doorstep.
Currently cloudy in nelson with low level but sun breaking through at times, so should lift once the front arrives and 20C on 88% humidity.
Thunder risk up here today and most of tomorrow, will be some healthy totals for sure.
Considering Nelson only got 10mm the other day, we need it up here dont want a repeat of last summer.

Some nice thunder and lighting just north of Amberley

Bridge itself looks OK in this pic, but approach from the south where Razor's photos from is the problem:
https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/photo ... 3939301303

Just had the most amazing and bizarre thunder ive ever heard, it was over head and quickly followed a bright flash, it was not just one boom but a cluster of booms like at a fireworks display

Richard wrote: ↑Sat 07/12/2019 13:32 Just had the most amazing and bizarre thunder ive ever heard, it was over head and quickly followed a bright flash, it was not just one boom but a cluster of booms like at a fireworks display

I think you might have just experienced inversion thunder

Interesting to see a state of emergency called over the Rangitata, meanwhile on the other side of the island...
Photos and videos courtesy of "The Coasters Club" on Facebook

"SH6 Haast at Clarke Bluff" "Little Man Bridge near Te Taho" "Mt Hercules 10:30 am Sat 7th Dec 2019" "Smiths Creek on the Fox Hill" "An aerial view of the Whataroa district just sent in. 11:21 07-12-2019"

All radar images so far

Big long thunder rumbles to the west, front closing in looks like its going to bucket down.

Very noisy big thunder rumbles, seen a few bolts come down.
Very heavy rain and strong winds

Can we change the title to include today, it's the same overall system after all. What a huge amount of rain.

Hope it all eases quickly enough around the Rangitatam must be wild on the coast, those photos are amazing.

Cyclone Tracy wrote: ↑Sat 07/12/2019 13:34

Richard wrote: ↑Sat 07/12/2019 13:32 Just had the most amazing and bizarre thunder ive ever heard, it was over head and quickly followed a bright flash, it was not just one boom but a cluster of booms like at a fireworks display

I think you might have just experienced inversion thunder

Have to look that up later, how common is that?,

Razor wrote: ↑Fri 06/12/2019 16:56 Another 250mm already at your favourite Cropp waterfall. Approaching 1500mm since sunday.

Away in Auckland at present. Must get an update when home and compare with other wet month starts.

Screenshot from facebook

einzack wrote: ↑Sat 07/12/2019 13:17 Bridge itself looks OK in this pic, but approach from the south where Razor's photos from is the problem:
https://www.facebook.com/TimaruDC/photo ... 3939301303

We are in this picture. Right by the water. Stuck south of the border now. Might be a few days stuck too

Just come back from Waimate.
Lovely day here today compared to overnight.
Lots of thunder resulting from bright lightning flashes overnight and early this morning with the last rumble heard about 7am this morning.
Didn't get much sleep so should sleep good tonight.

Few rumbles of thunder here to. Chance tomorrow for Canterbury in afternoon/evening. Timaru again looks like a good spot and up to BP

Razor - hope your adventure turns out alright in the end - good luck

Big thunderstorms in Wellington and now porirua!!! A few cgs and very heavy rain

Would have loved to get closer to that storm firing over Geraldine / near you John on Friday night, or even over to the West Coast but I'm much too tired at the moment with a few projects on the go. Went up Kennedy's Bush Rd with Steve and saw some lightning but despite being frequent on the tracker, from our point of view it wasn't very frequent. The lightning was quite distant and had an orange tinge to it.

Best I managed.

Good, that the internet is back on after some optic fibre cables got damaged by the Rangitata floodwaters
Yes talking to Bob last night, he said he heard no thunder but he had reports of people who did.
The thunderstorm we had here was fantastic. Just lying in bed with the curtains drawn and watching all the action from bed.
I've heard of "Arm-chair" chasing but lying in bed and watching a thunderstorm. would you call that chasing??

Thunder wrote: ↑Sun 08/12/2019 13:19 The lightning was quite distant and had an orange tinge to it.

Probably from the smoke in the atmosphere.