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Good gust front visible marching up the plans from burnham

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It snowed to the point of settling a bit on the ground at first in Cromwell, but the sun came out and melted the snow just before midday. There have been a one or two passing rain showers with a bit of hail mixed in with one of them in the pm interspersed with clear patches.

melja wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 15:39 Good gust front visible marching up the plans from burnham

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Interestingly the aforementioned strong SW in town has eased right back again. Wind has shifted significantly in direction several times today, a sign of the volatility further afield I'm sure

Can see the gust front from here

Razor wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 15:23
and a distant line of CBs out beyond Banks Peninsula

Yeah, looking at them in the distance, directly South for me, big line,don't seem to be heading onshore.

Nice gust front going by radar. Leaving work from town now. Hopefully ill find a wide open area to take a pic of it coming in. Coastal though

Razor wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 16:08

melja wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 15:39 Good gust front visible marching up the plans from burnham

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Interestingly the aforementioned strong SW in town has eased right back again. Wind has shifted significantly in direction several times today, a sign of the volatility further afield I'm sure

Can see the gust front from here

Yeah! It seems to of spawned something, look's a bit ominous from my direction.

Just starting to turn Westerly here. Quite Gusty.
Seems to be coming onshore ,not sure where though,looks nasty

There is some serferics on radio so im wondering if there might be some lightning in it.

A weak gust front went through here around 4pm.
Black clouds behind it but no sferics, so a bit of a fizzer.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 16:46 A weak gust front went through here around 4pm.
Black clouds behind it but no sferics, so a bit of a fizzer.

it looks likes it building from here,hell of a rate as well.

Looks fairly weak from here

Thunderstorms in coastal Southand this arvo

Razor wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 16:59 Looks fairly weak from here

Yeah, bit of a gust front but fizzled out once it got inland.
Pity. It looked pretty impressive at one point.

Some shots from down here.
The black stuff underneath moved out to sea with some lightning strikes way out to sea.

Intense squalls came through Porirua and north to Kapiti this arvo, blew a pot plant out of the corner of mums balcony and took out the glass panel with it... and heard a report of a trampoline in the air

A reasonable view was had from Coopers Knob on Banks Peninsula.

Very, very windy on the highway driving back to Chch just now, some serious gusts indicative of a strong southerly. Front looked really good, but yep out to sea. Just read 8C in town, sun is out but it's chilly.

Rogue wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 17:54 Intense squalls came through Porirua and north to Kapiti this arvo, blew a pot plant out of the corner of mums balcony and took out the glass panel with it... and heard a report of a trampoline in the air

According to the news tonight, there was a waterspout observed t'wixt the coast and Kapiti Island.

Moisture pluming in the mid levels around a short wave trough fanning from the centre of the low. Could be an active Southland radar early tomorrow morning and plenty of white on the ground.

I am Whanganui currently...thunder rumbling

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 18:45

Rogue wrote: ↑Mon 28/09/2020 17:54 Intense squalls came through Porirua and north to Kapiti this arvo, blew a pot plant out of the corner of mums balcony and took out the glass panel with it... and heard a report of a trampoline in the air

According to the news tonight, there was a waterspout observed t'wixt the coast and Kapiti Island.

Think they said the waterspout was between Titahi Bay (Porirua) and Mana Island.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=you ... axaC3sEYJs fair bit of localized damage, haven't seen footage of a tornado though

Snow showers getting more frequent and heavier in the past hour or so, a good covering on the ground now as well after all the earlier snow had melted.

All over bar the shouting as far as I'm concerned. Moved over too quickly for anything happening here.
Got the frost cloths out tonight and possibly tomorrow because of frosting.
Calm and clear at the moment.

Some beautiful clouds passing over the peninsula now, dimly illuminated by the moonlight. I don't mind not seeing much action overhead when you get the views we've been able to see the past few days. It's getting chilly though, tomorrow won't be that warm!