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Certainly looking like a Waipara south setup today, solid NW wind blowing here which, so, likely of anything happening at this stage, you never know though.

If anything I'd be looking at mid Canterbury. Timaru to ashburton best spots before it's likely to move offshore.
1pm chch sounding shows a small amount of instabilty 500mb shear not strong and lapse rates arnt that steep so I don't see the risk of severe today.

I do love a good storm. However, storms or not, what a cracking day it is in Ashburton. A slight breeze and beautiful clear skies.

Quite cloudy here now. Some weak cumulus developing.

Just equaled my record high October temperature here (12 year period) - up to 22.8C so far

Was very heavy briefly as it went through at 6am. Don't recall any thunder.

Breeze now from south-east; temp. falling slightly, now 22.0°C. Getting dull as cloud lowers.

Towers developing quite quickly just over town and to the north.

And now, beginning to rain.

Nothing much happening down here. Light Southerly. a bit of cloud forming but nothing really gutsy looking.
Been sunny and warm at 23C.
see what happens later or tomorrow.
A bit of rain moving east to the south of Timaru according to the radar.

Radar firing up over Ashburton, looking lively.

Thunder just now!

Thunder and lightning to the north of Ashburton. Wow just as I’m typing this an incredible crawler lit up the storm to the north.

Big cloud to ground lightning strike just now

House on fire in Winchmore. I wouldn’t rule out a lightning strike with the CG’s I saw earlier.

Conditions are ripe here in Lincoln. Warm, NE and awesome buildups to the south and inland

A thunderstorm did form and move out of TC towards the Ashburton area. Lots of thunder mainly cloud to cloud and I only saw one horizontal lightning flash near Woodbury where I chased today.

Closing in on Chch - dark to south and west.

Steady rain in Lincoln since 3pm. Still set in as at 4:40pm. No thunder

Here's a photo I took looking towards My. Peel a half an hour before I heard the first rumble from that area.

Some good reports there. Pretty much panned out as thought.
No chase for me today. Much better set ups to come

Not a terrible start to the thunderstorm season, skies looked quite good driving south towards town even though the thunder action had died away. Nice to see a chance.

mikestormchaser wrote: ↑Mon 18/10/2021 18:18 Some good reports there. Pretty much panned out as thought.
No chase for me today. Much better set ups to come

Couple rumbles, small hail in Rolleston at work today. Not worthy of a chase but fun to watch unfold

Talking to Bob Crowder this evening. He said he heard a few rumbles around behind Sugarloaf but sounded distant but nothing much really.