New Year Thunderstorms
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
I see that last night's Geraldine's hailstorm was on the TV One news this evening.
Thank goodness we didn't get hail like that here.
Thank goodness we didn't get hail like that here.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Here's a picture of Richard checking the rain radar on his phone with the supercell over the Timaru area in the background.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
The wundermap shows some Waikato PWS got as little as 3mm, some >70mm!jamie wrote: ↑Sun 03/01/2021 17:32 The storms in Waikato have been near stationary back building all day. If you were under it you would have been drowned. I have been on the edge of the exhaust of the northern Waikato storm. Thunder all afternoon and on and off light rain.
Another day where I’ve missed the rain we so badly need.
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7mm only for mine.
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Some figures I’ve heard are 80mm Huntly west, 50mm Tuakau, 70mm waerenga, all today. Yet just a couple km from these locations they could have had as little as 5-10mm like me.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
20mm in Grey Lynn yesterday and 20mm again today with thunder. Maybe another shower tomorrow but looks like a fine spell coming up.
Could be thunder on the extended outlook.
Could be thunder on the extended outlook.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
It was nice to chase near home today after yesterdays drive. Started the day with a storm over Auckland then drove down to the area of convergence Mercer to Rangriri, numerous thunderstorm cells formed there the afternoon, some nice lightning and plenty of water.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Another successful storm chase today. Didnt get any structure photos. Just the lightning shot in timaru which i was happy with.
There was a tornado/ funnel and more large hail reported with todays storm aswel
Todays set up was never going to make it north of ashburton at best with no moisture supporting anything other then the dry SW change, so im not sure why MS had the moderate risk extending right up over chch.Timaru south was the area today.
Great couple of days of unstable weather over the country! Summer is turning out to be a good season
There was a tornado/ funnel and more large hail reported with todays storm aswel
Todays set up was never going to make it north of ashburton at best with no moisture supporting anything other then the dry SW change, so im not sure why MS had the moderate risk extending right up over chch.Timaru south was the area today.
Great couple of days of unstable weather over the country! Summer is turning out to be a good season
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Yes, there Mikey. Was a good 3 days to welcome in 2021.
Good too, with Richard and his storm photographer daughter to come down for a chase and accompany me to the spots 'up on the Downs', where I find to be good spots for weather viewing across the Canterbury Plains.
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Good too, with Richard and his storm photographer daughter to come down for a chase and accompany me to the spots 'up on the Downs', where I find to be good spots for weather viewing across the Canterbury Plains.
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Here's another one of Richard checking the rain radar.
By doing that, he missed a flash out to his left
....sorry, just kidding
By doing that, he missed a flash out to his left
....sorry, just kidding
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Sorry, I didn't see this posting. glad you popped in anyway
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Well in Southland just steady rain from midday ro 8pm.The southeasterly veered northwest about 2pm was about the only noticeable aspect of this event,
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We have a ridge over the North Island today, no shortwave trough like we had yesterday.
So I expect convection to be significantly less today than what occurred yesterday and mostly over the ranges.
So I expect convection to be significantly less today than what occurred yesterday and mostly over the ranges.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Seen from Onehunga at 11.45h
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Who put the LED's on the lightning arrestor ?
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
I’m hoping for better than that. I’ve got a light northerly to north easterly than will converge with the westerly sea breeze this arvo. Fingers crossed.NZstorm wrote:We have a ridge over the North Island today, no shortwave trough like we had yesterday.
So I expect convection to be significantly less today than what occurred yesterday and mostly over the ranges.
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The ingredient that is there today is strong heating.
Sunny 25C here dp 17C, some T cu over the hills.
Last two days Waikato had a lot of cloud cover and rain cooled air.
Sunny 25C here dp 17C, some T cu over the hills.
Last two days Waikato had a lot of cloud cover and rain cooled air.
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Yup good heating today. Got to 26.8 and now about to get a shower. The convection has looked suppressed all day. I’ll take the couple mm I’m about to get tho.
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In fact I got nothing. The old storm force field is well and truely switched to on at my place.jamie wrote:Yup good heating today. Got to 26.8 and now about to get a shower. The convection has looked suppressed all day. I’ll take the couple mm I’m about to get tho.
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
A lovely Summer day here apart from the isolated area of Cb over the Bombay hills area
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Some ominous looking cloud going up around the Mt. Peel/4 Peaks area but not expecting much today.
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Nice build ups Bombay
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Re: New Year Thunderstorms
Blue dome day with 26C.
Isolated heat shower over South Auckland mid afternoon. A PWS at Bombay recorded 20mm in an hour.
Isolated heat shower over South Auckland mid afternoon. A PWS at Bombay recorded 20mm in an hour.
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Took a bunch of photos over the 3rd to 5th of Jan, around the Wairarapa and Bay of Plenty. Nothing exceptional but might as well share them.
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