Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Re: General October Weather

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Dark to the South of here.Few spots of precipitation.Duvet at the ready to throw over the greenhouse if we get reports of large hail.🙄
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Re: General October Weather

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Lawrence wrote: Tue 18/10/2022 14:42 Dark to the South of here.Few spots of precipitation.Duvet at the ready to throw over the greenhouse if we get reports of large hail.🙄
No hail here however the core appears to be slightly inland from town.
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Re: General October Weather

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Visual on sheets of hail bands to the east and south east.Could be possibly Rolleston, Lincoln area. Just a rumble of thunder and wind slightly picked up here now.
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Re: General October Weather

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Thunder in Lincoln. No precipitation....yet
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Re: General October Weather

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I can hear distant thunder from honrby. It looks a bit grumpy and high based.

edit : I just saw a cc bolt.
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Re: General October Weather

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Nothing down here except for a hail/graupel shower about an hour ago. Much colder and non-interesting looking cloud.
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Re: General October Weather

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dogmelon wrote: Tue 18/10/2022 15:04 I can hear distant thunder from honrby. It looks a bit grumpy and high based.

edit : I just saw a cc bolt.
I'm at work in Wigram, sure is getting dark out there. Clouds looking ominous, glad I didn't bike to work today.

Edit: rumbles of thunder and some distant lightning now
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Re: General October Weather

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Looking from Mt Pleasant at 3:33pm
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Re: General October Weather

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10 mins ago from Awatea over bridge looking towards Prebbleton
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Re: General October Weather

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Plenty of loud rolling thunder and wind for last 30 mins at Lincoln, still no rain
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Re: General October Weather

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Lower-level wind seems to be moving from East to west now, seems more on shore and picked up considerably now, looking weird out towards Banks Peninsular way. :-k
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Re: General October Weather

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Lawrence wrote: Tue 18/10/2022 15:27 Lower-level wind seems to be moving from East to west now, seems more on shore and picked up considerably now, looking weird out towards Banks Peninsular way. :-k
Sure is a weird shifting wind direction. Sort of thing I'd expect with a much bigger storm?
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Re: General October Weather

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Confirmed lightening detected from 14klm from here.
Edit: Heavy rain started here now, few rumbles of thunder.
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Re: General October Weather

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Its been strong southerly in at the uni for the last 30 minutes, now clouds are streaming in from the E-NE again. Interesting looking radar now too
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Re: General October Weather

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Lightning seems to be getting closer now, precipitation slightly more turning to hail.
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Mod Note: Thought today's Canterbury T-storms could do with its own thread. :-)
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Pouring down heavy sheet like rain in Wigram. Winds from the South
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Amberley is about to get dumped upon... Big cell to the west incoming.
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Edit - now steady hail and thunder/lightning overhead.
Edit 2 - a brief period of torrential rain and small hail has eased, and thunder now booming rather than crackling. Looks like Amberley took a direct hit.
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Still blowing a NWer here but the front is charging north
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Good posting there Tony. Go0d that you were on the spot to record it.
Nothing much down here with the southerly Initially looked promising but after the hail/graupel shower on the arrival of the southerly the clagg moved in with a drop in temperature.
Here are some pictures from here prior to the arrival of the front.
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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The storms seemed to hand off as the front charged north along with the abrupt upper air change, rather than a few storms moving up from Ashburton.
Some brilliant lightning overhead at work and steady rain large drops no hail though.
Managed to get these 3 shots of lightning while standing there for about 10 minutes.
The first one was a big CG that I caught a second fork of.
I did mention on here a few days ago that today might produce storms and I'm glad it pulled off. \:D/
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Oh well, missed out again. Maybe some year in the future I might to experience thunder an lightning again without having to travel to them.
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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Certainly a good start to the Canterbury season. The last time we had a start like this was in 2013.. where we ended up having one of the best seasons including 3 or 4 supercell severe days in summer.
Interesting to note looking back at the wind flags a keen Easterly ramped up at 3pm when that storm got going over the city today.
I couldn't get out to chase as was working however I did get some shots below. Not the best.

Aaron Wilkinson captured an absolute beauty..one of the best he's got which he sent to a group chat tonight, I'll get him to share on here when he's able
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Re: Canterbury T-storms - Oct 18

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I'm still chasing if a storm presents itself and it has been a while! Cool chase today, lots of lightning, loud thunder and hail showers. But lightning photography is hard with getting rain drops on the lens in amongst a dozen other issues. But I got one, took this near Ashley, North Canterbury :)

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