General June Weather

[tornado]

Metservice did mention tornadoes for auckland in the thunderstorm outlook for that day

yeah for coastal parts. though. east tamaki is more inland auckland. but none the less it was a intresting day. even tho the showers kept weakening as they got here in takanini

[Awhituobs]

its not very far from east tamaki to the hauraki gulf just to the north so on the grand scheme of things its coastal enough

[spwill]

I was 12km away at Three Kings yesterday morning and could see shower cloud tops through low cloud but not close enough for a view of the cloud base.

[Awhituobs]

ps, Auckland must be heading for one of its warmest Junes on record
I am running 1.1c above normal here for june
(no sign of the cooling from last springs SSW?)

[Orion]

Picture of trees flattened at Dairy Flat overnight.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/arti ... d=12343477

My Silverdale Spy* reports hearing a bang around 11pm, then another much louder, and power went off. Stormy, but black-dark of course so could see nothing til daylight.
*Location about 1km from the damage to roofs, cars, trees etc.

[David]

ps, Auckland must be heading for one of its warmest Junes on record
I am running 1.1c above normal here for june
(no sign of the cooling from last springs SSW?)

For me this month is 1.4C above my 10 year mean for June, certainly a mild one, though 2014 was the same here

[Storm Struck]

Incredible few days of tornados there, thanks to more people with decent cameras on thier phones.
Some places starting to forecast near sea level snow mid week, not seeing this 850mb temp still too warm although certainly cold enough for snow to 200-300m.
Sleety showers and hail for the east coast a possibility.

[NZstorm]

There could be a tornado report tomorrow as the low pressure system will veer the low level flow as it approaches. But dp's 11C are at the bottom end of the range I like to see for a tornado. Will be interesting to see what can eventuate tomorrow.

[tornado]

yes hoping for some thunder and hail. yes might be a another tornado tonmmorow. theres been like 4 tornadoes this weekend. some action weather at last tho. I am thinking taranaki might join in on the tornado action.

i see this weekends outbreak is on the Wikipedia tornadoes of 2020 page.

[Awhituobs]

Yeah the relatively high DP certainly helped the weekend tornadoes

[Tornado Tim]

A little bit of lightning flashing out west as I was driving into Raglan this morning with crop of CB's. Looking at the Himawari loop the 2nd wave in the trough line have bit more vigor to them.

[NZstorm]

Thunder risk arrives in Auckland from the middle of the day according to gfs.

[Awhituobs]

This CB is lightning activ

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[Awhituobs]

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[jamie]

Was some nice booby clouds in the sky this morning as these cbs approached.


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[Chris W]

100% rotten weather this morning in Lyttelton and town, better in Amberley but not great. Lovely.

[mikestormchaser]

100% rotten weather this morning in Lyttelton and town, better in Amberley but not great. Lovely.

Cold wet week a head. Think we can safely say some droughts are broken!

[David]

Was some nice booby clouds in the sky this morning as these cbs approached.


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I saw mammatus too around 7.40am, sadly wasn't in a position for a decent shot (CBD surrounded by tall buildings)

[spwill]

Very heavy rain has arrived here, locations east of here could get thunder from the line.

[tornado]

Nz herald report a tornado hit whangarei on Friday

That was a small tornado outbreak. I think some reached EF2. Based on some reports and pics I seen. Glad no injuries or deaths occurred.

[tornado]

had some hail but no thunder sadly. i did get thunder last thursday tho. might be another thunder chance next week? could change. has been a intresting few days with good footage of the twisters. there is nothing mini about them for sure. i was expecting at least one touch down. not 4 or 5 as occurred. but nature does its thing.

[NZstorm]

That was a small tornado outbreak. I think some reached EF2. Based on some reports and pics I seen. Glad no injuries or deaths occurred.

I think the tornadoes were EF1 which accounts for wind speed up to 180km/h.

As for thunder risk today, I think a low risk continues overnight.

[spwill]

Active weather here for the last 5 days, quiet weather for the next 5 days.

[tornado]

That was a small tornado outbreak. I think some reached EF2. Based on some reports and pics I seen. Glad no injuries or deaths occurred.

I think the tornadoes were EF1 which accounts for wind speed up to 180km/h.

As for thunder risk today, I think a low risk continues overnight.

theres another heavy shower bands with patches of red in it. on wikipedias tornado of 2020 they plot 3 of them as EFU and the south tamaki twister as ef2. i know wikipedia is unaccurate but still. yes quieter but cold weather as we do get a bit of high pressure coming.

[David]

Massive increases in dam storage in Auckland's Waitakere dams. In particular Upper Nihotupu dam, which was 25% in late May, is now at 92%!

The larger dams in the Hunua ranges are still quite low however, around 50% full, as they have missed some of the bigger downpours.

As a result total storage is about 55%, still 23% lower than normal.