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nice
sunshine here now.. brewing up nicely

photogenic clouds today!

A lot of cloud cover today.
At Bombay watching the cell blow up over Waiuku area. Some thunder heard here from it.

Heavy rain moving into the Bay now, high rain rate of 65 mm/hr recorded so far. Going to be a very wet night.

Red alert for the Gisborne province with this weather system.

Some nice looking skies around Auckland today but the isolated thunderstorms have been in the form of brief thundery showers.

Distant thunder to the south

Quite an active cell, hearing thunder about once per minute. Looks to be Papatoetoe way

Photo of that storm developing 15mins ago

Nice little deluge to end the day. A lot of lightning activity east of here, plenty of thunder in the last 15 mins.

we some how missed it..heavy rain came to within 3 km of me
Waiuku got torrential rain (20, 30,50mm from weather stations in that area)

Lightning active cb up near Whangaparoa (North Auckland)

David wrote: ↑Wed 23/03/2022 19:49 Nice little deluge to end the day. A lot of lightning activity east of here, plenty of thunder in the last 15 mins.

That cell seems to have become quite active around you David. Rain hit here at 8pm. Lots of flashes and a few real doozies.

Another 23mm here in about 40 minutes. Great light show over Waiheke.

can see the lightning flashes in the anvils over the Hauraki gulf from here

1, photo of lightning over Waiheke seen from Mt Eden. 2, photo of storm clouds over South Auckland this evening.

A photo of the evening Cb over east Auckland and the storm over Waiuku late afternoon

A couple more photos, lightning over Waiheke and evening Cb cloud.

sure has been very photogenic clouds last few days!
I hope its not too soon to say it Simon, but Steven would have loved it

Decent period that. About 1.45am yesterday morning we hit around 50mm/hr. Fortunately not for long enough to flood, but you never know how long it will last at the time. Dodged the bullet again. Thunderstorms on Tuesday afternoon caused some homes near here to be without mains power overnight after a transformer was damaged & there were plenty of smaller branches broken around the place.

A clear view on the current 300km radar loop of the atmospheric river feeding in from the tropics with spillover rain making it all the way up to central Waikato and spilling over the BOP.

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about to be a east meets west too (weather system from Tasman meeting weather system from Pacific)
I don't think they like each other

Awhituobs wrote: ↑Wed 23/03/2022 22:22 sure has been very photogenic clouds last few days!
I hope its not too soon to say it Simon, but Steven would have loved it

Yes Brian, Steven would have been particularly interested in the big rain event Monday morning. He would have probably got up early Monday morning and headed north to meet the lightning while it was still dark, he had a lot of time for his weather interest.

Cloudy conditions in Napier, after a night of moderate rainfall in the city. Rivers in the region are up extremely high compared to normal conditions. Rain has mostly cleared, however low cloud and light drizzle persist, with variable breezes.
More rain expected tonight and tommorow, but hoping for some clean surf conditions as the low moves further offshore.

Nice observations and photos guys!