Cold Outbreak, T-storms, Possible Tornado - May 19-22

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Cold Outbreak, T-storms, Possible Tornado - May 19-22

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Thunder heard to the west along with a long period of rain here
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Re: General May Weather

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been some good heavy shower lines come through here
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It didn’t deliver much over this way, 6mm light to moderate rain here, 12.6mm month to date o_O
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we did well, farmers are happy (19mm for the day,now 40mm for the month)
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13mm for the day here bringing the total for the month to 63mm
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Re: General May Weather

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Some photos of fairly significant wind damage in Levin coming through on Twitter....
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Can hear thunder from the approaching red containing line on the radar.

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I see the line has an associated warning issued.

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Re: General May Weather

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18mm in 2 and a half hours out of this morning's rain, to go with the 13mm we got yesterday. Unusual for North Canterbury to get so much rain ahead of the cold change.
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TonyT wrote: Fri 20/05/2022 09:42 18mm in 2 and a half hours out of this morning's rain, to go with the 13mm we got yesterday. Unusual for North Canterbury to get so much rain ahead of the cold change.
And yesterday's rainfall yielded more out near the coast than here, that is unusual from spillover rain
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Hardly any rain from the change here in Ashburton this morning. Less than 1mm.
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darcyplumb wrote:Hardly any rain from the change here in Ashburton this morning. Less than 1mm.
Will see what we receive from round two moving up the South Island now

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Re: General May Weather

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This is the activity moving up the coast towards Banks Peninsula at the moment.
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Re: General May Weather

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A nice upper cold system over the SI and lower NI today.

Nothing to report from here, the quietest May I can remember.
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darcyplumb wrote: Fri 20/05/2022 10:24 This is the activity moving up the coast towards Banks Peninsula at the moment.
They look interesting, cant see nothing to the south here yet
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Re: General May Weather

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Strong upper cold trough moving up the south island today. Chance of thunder/hail with second band moving up.
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cbm wrote:I see the line has an associated warning issued.

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Local chatter has damage to shop windows in Cambridge town centre and one person trapped in car under fallen tree from that line.

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Another nasty squall came through just now

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tornado in levin?
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6:30am radar image of the storm over Levin looks like it has a hook echo
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Wellington southerly front timelapse: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBl3hsuIg2Q
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Re: General May Weather

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Stormy-looking sky to north-west and west here at the moment;
some lower-level clouds drifting south to north;
sunny, 9.9°C
Just looks 'odd' somehow.
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Re: General May Weather

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Heavy hail shower moving over atm
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Re: General May Weather

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Security camera footage looks interesting...

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/300593 ... ough-levin
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Re: General May Weather

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As this event is significant, maybe a separate thread is required for record purposes, especially as that woman, sadly, passed away in Cambridge and those lovely old oaks in Levin got a hammering.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, T-storms, Possible Tornado - May 19-22

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Fri 20/05/2022 17:44 As this event is significant, maybe a separate thread is required for record purposes, especially as that woman, sadly, passed away in Cambridge and those lovely old oaks in Levin got a hammering.
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