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Radar looking promising as is the sky around Amberley
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very black in Chch and the lighting tracker giving hits
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Just started pouring in Wigram. How can the metservice website show no rainfall for the whole day? Incompetence?
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the computer model was incompetent. The metservice meteorologists were accurate.
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That 2 hourly rain forecast is always nonsense. Ignore it.
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Raining in St Albans, plus a couple of loud thunderclaps.
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Very dark in Amberley, convection ahead of the main band means lots of rain about to fall or already falling. No thunder yet.

Update - thunder.
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Chris W wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 14:02 Very dark in Amberley, convection ahead of the main band means lots of rain about to fall or already falling. No thunder yet.
Thunder now! Visible lightning. Heavy rain showers.
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Captain Salty wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 13:49 the computer model was incompetent. The metservice meteorologists were accurate.
Models were incompetent until this morning. It looked ok since early this morning.

Good few rumbles of thunder in the city.. it strengthened as it went out towards new brighten
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mikestormchaser wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 14:12
Captain Salty wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 13:49 the computer model was incompetent. The metservice meteorologists were accurate.
Models were incompetent until this morning. It looked ok since early this morning.
Guidance showed thunderstorm potential up until 2 days ago, and I had "risk of possible afternoon thunderstorms" in the forecast at that time, but guidance backed away from the idea on Sunday. I did mention it as possibility on yesterday evening's stream.
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Torrential rain, a few flashes and some deep rumbles. Good storm, would receive again.
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This must be some equipment playing up? Even Manukau heads is averaging only 12

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TonyT wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 14:17
mikestormchaser wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 14:12

Models were incompetent until this morning. It looked ok since early this morning.
Guidance showed thunderstorm potential up until 2 days ago, and I had "risk of possible afternoon thunderstorms" in the forecast at that time, but guidance backed away from the idea on Sunday. I did mention it as possibility on yesterday evening's stream.
I must of been missing a few guidance numbers Tony. I did see a SW change and rain for us today, a few days ago but as you said backed off Sunday.
But this morning it came back with avengence.
Not a big set up, just a little flick. Not a day to take off work to chase
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Looks like you guys up there had a traditional thunderstorm that developed across the plains and moved over ChCh like the ones years ago when I used to live up there..
Nothing much happened down here except for a shower around mid-morning. Wind back to the NE here now.
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re bean rock....the windspeed is taken on top of the light house which is on top of bean rock and in a westerly there is good funneling through the harbour entrance.its gone SW now and eased but will slowly build again
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JP. wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 13:42 16-3-21.JPG

Just started pouring in Wigram. How can the metservice website show no rainfall for the whole day? Incompetence?
Quite often I have passed the Levels airport and it is raining there, on the way into Timaru and the MS website has shown no rain for Timaru.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 17:29 Looks like you guys up there had a traditional thunderstorm that developed across the plains and moved over ChCh like the ones years ago when I used to live up there..
Nothing much happened down here except for a shower around mid-morning. Wind back to the NE here now.
Wasnt a biggie john. A low risk that ended up putting out a few rumbles.
I was expecting it to get to about lake ellesmere and spin off out towards BP, given the upper shear was rather strong westerly. But made it up to chch northwards before heading offshore.
It was also SW long before the main band came in.
Still hoping to get one more big day before may/ end of our storm season. Then concerntrate on any snow storms!
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Awhituobs wrote:re bean rock....the windspeed is taken on top of the light house which is on top of bean rock and in a westerly there is good funneling through the harbour entrance.its gone SW now and eased but will slowly build again
Thanks, it did turn out to be real, was just where wind was being concentrated at that time. Was just a surprise to see as media was saying maybe not enough wind to race just before that time.

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I'll be be glad when this American cup thing is over for Auckland. Plugging the news. Not interested here in hearing about Auckland's harbours wind speeds and directions unless I was up there in a thunderstorm event.
anyway... an uneventful day here with cloud and a shower this morning delivering 1.1mm of rain. Clearing up this afternoon to become fine and sunny but with unpregnant Cu fluffy clouds forming, with a back to a NE this afternoon.
Today's maximum was 19.1C.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 18:20
JP. wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 13:42 16-3-21.JPG

Just started pouring in Wigram. How can the metservice website show no rainfall for the whole day? Incompetence?
Quite often I have passed the Levels airport and it is raining there, on the way into Timaru and the MS website has shown no rain for Timaru.
Its quite likely ChCh Aero had no rain. It was very shortlived in the central city as well, about 3 minutes of rain
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Seems to have gone into a dry pattern here. Nothing really to see next 10 days either.
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darcyplumb wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 11:38 Epic lightning lit up the sky about 5 minutes ago in Ashburton. Spectacular!
Apparently according to this morning's Ashburton Guardian, a tree was struck by lightning north of the town and a nearby shed went up in smoke.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Wed 17/03/2021 17:22
darcyplumb wrote: Tue 16/03/2021 11:38 Epic lightning lit up the sky about 5 minutes ago in Ashburton. Spectacular!
Apparently according to this morning's Ashburton Guardian, a tree was struck by lightning north of the town and a nearby shed went up in smoke.
Yes I did see that. I’m not surprised.
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Nice day here today until the southerly wind picked up from 2.30pm.
Lower cloud slowly moved in and the temperature cooled from then and into the evening. 21.9C max for today.
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what I am going to do with no america's cup racing to watch at 4pm :)
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