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darcyplumb wrote: ↑Sun 07/08/2022 07:42 Another incredible sky this morning - this time looking to the south. An incredible orange glow shining through the windows.

Nice virga there Darcy. Shows signs of the cold air aloft

A NZ Herald article about our current La Nina, unfortunately it's behind a paywall.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/explained ... TDGPE34U4/

After a mild start, the colder southerly wind came through at 1130am with a dramatic cooling of temperature.
Today's maximum was 15.6C but this afternoon the temperature was mostly in the 5C range with rain. Some sleet at times around 3pm.
Rain easing this evening but remaining cold with it being 2.6C at 10pm.
17mm of rain for today.

Super happy with my new rain gauge mechanism’s first proper test. 32mm in both the manual gauge and on the VP2

Looks like a lengthy spell of settled weather is arriving for the majority of the South Island. Great chance to slowly start drying out

Can see some big lightning flashes out towards Orewa.

That active storm around Orewa and another north of Wellsford have been going ballistic since about 7:30pm.
Quiet a spectacular view from here... lights up the sky for miles!

Can see some faint flashes to the north from here too every few minutes

Yeah, some flashes bigger than others. Also heard some distant rumbles.
Seems to have settled down a bit now.

that CB line around Silverdale is back filling
might be some flash flooding

A sort of a wintry day with wintry showers this afternoon and this evening. Not as good as in the old days when I used to enjoy lying in the bath and hearing the hail on the roof. Today's maximum was 7.9C with 8.4mm of rain and other sorts of precipitation.
Cold winds between SW and East.

Those T-storms north of Auckland lasted off and on until about midnight.
Then got woken up about 2:30am by about 20 minutes of thunder north of Waiheke.

I see Puhoi, north of Auckland, had flash flooding
as i feared
and yet no warning or watches on these CB,s ?

Yeah, was wondering why MS never issued any real time warnings with that amount of activity?

I was busy last night otherwise I would have gone up to Owera. The lightning was still visible from here at 11.30pm.

'Flooding in Puhoi: A day of clean-up ahead after bad weather overnight' - NZ Herald

Picked up 10mm here early morning. I see some stations up Orewa/Puhoi way picked up 90mm

woa, 90mm, and not even a watch on those CB's?

Metservice do love issuing warnings but no warning last night.

Unstable over Northland this afternoon.

A mixed day of sunshine and cloud and cold but light southerly winds. Some weak wintry Cu forms.
Today's maximum was 8.8C.

a line of CBS in the north currently.


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Yes, looking fairly active north of the Gulf atm...

Yes, Great Barrier Island in the firing line for heavy showers and thunderstorms currently.

See what can over land this afternoon, moisture /instability sitting between Auckland and Whangarei.

spwill wrote: ↑Wed 10/08/2022 11:24 Yes, Great Barrier Island in the firing line for heavy showers and thunderstorms currently.

See what can over land this afternoon, moisture /instability sitting between Auckland and Whangarei.

had a downpour here in south papakura on monday afternoon from the convergence. plus another one on monday night. no thunder though. been very quiet for thunder lately. last rumble was in june. but a fairly wet (rain) season this year.