General July Weather

[Orion]

My Westerfield Spy reports a very large lightning flash, and peals of thunder.

[tich]

Heavy rain now in Chch.

[Storm Struck]

Some very heavy rain in southern Otautahi and some small hail mixed in.
No lightning yet though despite the radar looking impressive.
Lots of surface flooding too, will be filling up those waterways in no time.

[Richard]

Has got heavy here now also, radar certainly does look impressive

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Fine overnight but with some high cloud.
High cloud clearing away this morning to become totally fine and clear but high cloud building from 2pm with some instability looking clouds to the west increasing from then on.Low cloud along the coast.
The southerly came through around 5pm with a gust front here followed with some steady rain until about 8pm. 8mm for today.
Becoming fine later this evening.

[RODALCO]

Just a good rumble of thunder and a brief hail shower with some strong windgusts in Titirangi. Lasted about 5 minutes.

[Razor]

Fantastic Southerly buster just came through Wellington round midnight after a lovely day. I'm up here for a family health reason but taking chances where i can in the outdoors to clear the head .. pics to prove how good it was earlier while I was out exploring

[Nev]

Quite a bit of lightning around north Auckland earlier this morning, particularly between about 4:25am and 4:50am.

[David]

Lots of showers here in the early hours, some bursts of lightning and thunder too particularly near 4am

[spwill]

Brief heavy showers in the strong upper flow,thunder heard at 10.50pm last night and after 5am this morning

[spwill]

A few thunder booms from the west just now, incoming shower.

[RODALCO]

Yup, Couple of loud bangs and flashes and wet hail in GreenBay about 10 minutes ago.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Blue dome day this morning after yesterday's late weather event.
Cloud gradually increasing from the west during the afternoon. Cool SW winds for today.
Maximum only 10.4C.

[Razor]

I had to drive to the Wairarapa and back today from Wellington. Snow was falling but not settling on the Remutaka Road around the summit. Some awesome towering cumulus clouds up the eastern side. Looks like another round tomorrow/ Friday

[spwill]

Been getting some thunder here last 5mins with the current shower line.

[Aucklandstorm]

Some big hail in that storm just now, Westmere.
Very loud thunder.

[spwill]

Some big hail in that storm just now, Westmere.
Very loud thunder.

That is good size hail, well done on taking some photos

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Basically, it was a fine day here with some scattered cloud moving across from the south.
Maximum temperature was 11.7C
Looked showery out to sea off the coast.

[Andy]

Butchers Dam today just south of Alexandra.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Not quite a frost on the ground this morning but becoming frosty this evening.
Today's maximum was 11.4C.
Fine sunny day with some high cloud and a light NE this afternoon.

[Simon Culling]

Came across this photo of two waterspouts off Manaia (North Island) on Tuesday 25th July.

https://twitter.com/ICWR/status/1684642705446436864

[Nev]

Thanks Simon. Here's some more pics and info...

'Weather: Double waterspouts and snowfall hit Taranaki' - NZ Herald

'Hāwera pilot captures stunning images of twin waterspouts' - 1news

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After a frosty start it was a fine day, yesterday, with some high cirussy cloud at times this afternoon Light Ne winds.
11.7C for yesterday.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

After another frosty start it was a fine day with some cirrus high cloud.
12.7C the maximum for today.

[David]

In my 14 years of data only twice has July failed to drop below 2C - this year and last year. Not seen a ground frost locally since 2021.