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Nice thunder and rumbling with strong winds in Titirangi.

Have heard some thunder in the west.

Moderate rain here but some loud overhead thunder just now.

First thunder just heard after the main band had passed..

Looks like a classic case of weakens once it gets over land, starts to fire up again once it gets to the gulf. Have had distant thunder to the west and east today but nothing overhead

Lightning and thunder here just now, just to the north.

Good storm going through Tauranga now. Drove through another good one this morning going to Rotorua. It's very low based, largely embeded CC, occasional CG Noisy stuff.

Photo of the approaching line a little earlier this afternoon over west Auckland. Clearing conditions here now.

Razor wrote: ↑Wed 30/11/2022 12:40 Keep the rain down there please. Hagley Oval is sold out for what promises to be a great cricket international shortly

We'll do our best.
Still cold and claggy down here with the odd spit and SE winds.
Probably better chance for tomorrow as MS have no thunder warning for down here tomorrow

Possibly 2 tornadoes in the Hauraki District around 2pm today...

'Wild weather: Reports of tornado lifting roof off property in Paeroa, Waikato' - NZ Herald

Looking rather interesting now to the SSW, Still blowing a westerly atm

Thunder heard

Looks like it on the radar, Richard, that where today's thunderstorms may be for the Canterbury area.
The blitz recorded a couple of ground strikes up your way.
Raining here now, quite steady.

Fine for a start off today but it clouded up in the morning with a light southerly blowing. Cloud layers becoming general from then on with clagg and light rain settling in.Southerlies becoming fresh this afternoon.
Rain from 5pm with 8.1mm falling for today. Today's maximum was just 15.9C reached this morning. Not very interesting weather for today.
Tried to keep it away from the cricket.
Darn it. I've just seen a low risk for thunderstorms for Canterbury for tomorrow afternoon. That's tomorrow's chances ruined

Stats for Medbury-
Rainfall - 53mm
Max temp - 27.6deg 15th
Lowest Max - 13deg 10th
Lowest overnight temp - 0,0deg 11th ( station incorrectly shows -1225.4deg 29th)
Highest " " - 15.6deg 2nd

Richard wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 09:09 Stats for Medbury-
Rainfall - 53mm

Hmmm.. NWA's Cliflo shows about 84mm at your place for Nov..?

137mm here.

Easily the wettest November I’ve recorded here, 158mm total (mean for the prior 12 years was 67mm).

Temperature was 0.9C above normal.

Nev wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 17:42

Richard wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 09:09 Stats for Medbury-
Rainfall - 53mm

Hmmm.. NWA's Cliflo shows about 84mm at your place for Nov..?

137mm here.

That's strange, only showed 53mm for me this morning. I'll go and double check that....

Richard wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 19:24

Nev wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 17:42

Hmmm.. NWA's Cliflo shows about 84mm at your place for Nov..?

137mm here.

That's strange, only showed 53mm for me this morning. I'll go and double check that....

A servicing guy came up on Wednesday to work on the station and you can see when he did the work. It cut off at the 22nd at 53mm and then 27.6mm till the 29th, and then there was a shower late 30th, sorted

As well as being an exceptionally wet November for most places, especially around the North Island, November 2022 also looks likely to be NZ's warmest November on record (for the second consecutive year).


Preliminary stats for the main centres:

And despite a cooler start to December, 2022 could well end up being NZ's warmest year on record (for the second consecutive year), due in part to its warmest winter on record (for the third consecutive year) and 2nd-equal warmest autumn on record.

From here in Raukapuka
Rainfall - 129.7mm over 19 days
Max temp - 27.1deg - Wednesday the 2nd
Lowest overnight temp - 3.4C - Friday the 11h
Highest minimum 13.7C - morning of Wednesday the 2nd
Lowest maximum - 11.4C - Sunday the 27th
3 Thunder days with one of them not forecasted on the MS thunderstorm outlook - Friday the 25th

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 20:46
3 Thunder days with one of them not forecasted on the MS thunderstorm outlook - Friday the 25th

That's right , I forgot to add 'thunder days', What qualifies as a thunder day?, does a distant rumble like I heard yesterday count

Richard wrote: ↑Thu 01/12/2022 21:15 That's right , I forgot to add 'thunder days', What qualifies as a thunder day?, does a distant rumble like I heard yesterday count

YES

Ok then, three thunder days here last month

NIWA have confirmed today that November 2022 was indeed NZ’s warmest November on record (topping last year by about 0.1C).