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Re: General August Weather

Posted: Sun 29/08/2021 18:28
by spwill
Another photo of storm cloud.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Sun 29/08/2021 18:45
by Awhituobs
the shower tops looked great from here
18c here today :)
I see ricky got 12mm in a very short space time!

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Sun 29/08/2021 19:02
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
There was a H2O-Spout (Waterspout) noticed and recorded off the coast of Napier according to TVOne news.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Sun 29/08/2021 23:54
by Simon Culling
Came across this picture while searching for UK events. Picture appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th August and near to Havelock/Hastings.

Nice FC.

https://twitter.com/majicDave/status/14 ... 8661979138

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 05:07
by Awhituobs
I saw a real good video on the news sights last night that someone took
I cant find it now
it looked like it lasted a relatively long time

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 05:45
by Nev
Bit more info and video about that 'funnel clound' near Hastings:
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weathe ... a-downpour
Hawke’s Bay resident Emma Waerea spotted it out her window at about 4:47pm, and it disappeared just after 5pm.

She guessed it was meeting the ground somewhere close to Pakipaki in Hastings, and Metservice forecaster Gerard Bellam confirmed that estimate. ...

The funnel cloud (the term for a tornado-shaped cloud which does not touch the ground) formed over south-west part of Hastings, near Raukawa and Pakipaki around 5pm, Bellam said.
Below is also a screen-grab from 1 News at Six, taken by Paul Smith of Pakipaki, Hastings around 5pm, which I think Dan the Weatherman labelled as a 'waterspout near Napier'...?

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 07:56
by Nev
Simon Culling wrote: Sun 29/08/2021 23:54 Came across this picture while searching for UK events. Picture appears to have been taken on Sunday 29th August and near to Havelock/Hastings.

Nice FC.

https://twitter.com/majicDave/status/14 ... 8661979138
Well spotted. :-) I see he actually posted 3 pics. The first shows more of the cloud tops:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97sPEOVcAU ... name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97tFzGVUAM ... name=large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E97uPdVVkAI ... name=large

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 11:23
by Nev
Sounds and looks like it probably did touch down. A few more pics in the NZ Herald...

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/i-didnt-w ... 3KAYN54KU/

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 12:07
by Cyclone Tracy
Wind is squeezing between ENE and E locally. 16c with a 12c DP. Radar is getting busy to my NE near Great Barrier.

EC's 18Z has given a 40 to 50mm upgrade from the 12Z run for the next 36 hours locally.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 16:05
by spwill
Radar has been looking active Kaipara area, isolated thunderstorms up that way.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 17:23
by Awhituobs
There is some lighting strikes on that rain band :)

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 18:00
by Awhituobs
Its getting more lightning active
I might get a show :)

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 18:04
by David
Just 0.2mm here today. Perhaps tonight will bring something out this way? Looks all west at the moment.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 18:51
by spwill
Disant lightning observed

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 18:57
by GraemeWi
Quite a bit of lightning out to our North-West and West, mostly in cloud, it seems to have slowed a bit in the last couple of minutes

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 18:58
by Cyclone Tracy
Back building north of Auckland in the squeeze zone, winds still ENE to E locally. The cut off low in the Tasman is not budging, an interesting night ahead.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:09
by David
Thunder heard here

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:09
by spwill
Over head thunder here just now

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:13
by spwill
More thunder overhead, the lghtning is in the cloud just west of here

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:15
by Cyclone Tracy
Thunder here to. Those converging cells around Kaipara harbour should be warned by MS.

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:16
by David
Great lightning and loud booming thunder

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:23
by RODALCO
Couple of very bright lightning strikes and loud thunders over the last 5 minutes.


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Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:24
by ricky
One was a great skytower CG

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:26
by Awhituobs
strikes :)
(we are getting anvil crawlers here )

Re: General August Weather

Posted: Mon 30/08/2021 19:26
by Orion
Enjoy! :D