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Thundery outbreak expected tomorrow (On John's scale, a 4) for Northland to Taranaki including BoP...
We havn't had some thunder lately at all so some would be nice!!
Today it's been cloudy with some rain developing, light winds, 12c
p.s., how on earth do I save images off the web on a bloody mac!!!???
We havn't had some thunder lately at all so some would be nice!!
Today it's been cloudy with some rain developing, light winds, 12c
p.s., how on earth do I save images off the web on a bloody mac!!!???
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[quote="Aaron J Wilkinson"]That rain radar shows some heavy rain last night at 4am. I didn't notice it or wake up though. Was it really that heavy? This is what I'm affraid of. A big lightning storm will come through at night and I'll sleep through it, everyone will say, "Aaron, did you see that storm last night etc etc", "No" I'll say and everyone will laugh at me.
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Yes Aaron, it did chuck it down especially around 4am.
Even though the bedroom/front room has a tiled roof, I was awokon by the rain at 4am. I got up, went for a 'Johnny Riddle" and the rain on the roof in the toilet was very loud. I turned the back-yard light on for a look and it was really urinating down. Calm, although I sensed a light easterly with rain spots on our french doors which face to the east.
Anyway, I went back to bed, after observing the rain and not really expecting a flash or anything like that went back to sleep and woke up at 6:30am, and the rain had stopped.
I thought to myself that the rain was a wee bit more than drizzle of which MetService had forecasted earlier for the day
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Yes Aaron, it did chuck it down especially around 4am.
Even though the bedroom/front room has a tiled roof, I was awokon by the rain at 4am. I got up, went for a 'Johnny Riddle" and the rain on the roof in the toilet was very loud. I turned the back-yard light on for a look and it was really urinating down. Calm, although I sensed a light easterly with rain spots on our french doors which face to the east.
Anyway, I went back to bed, after observing the rain and not really expecting a flash or anything like that went back to sleep and woke up at 6:30am, and the rain had stopped.
I thought to myself that the rain was a wee bit more than drizzle of which MetService had forecasted earlier for the day
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Yes, interesting clouds after this early morning downpour ( I got 16mm of rain from it. I don't know the period that the 16mm fell as I was mostly asleep at the time)Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:
Some interesting clouds outside. I guess it's something to do with a convergence between the ENE and S quater winds. An unstable sky...it would help if the pressure was a bit lower and the dewpoit higher and the general temp a bit higher to, so maybe nothing today??
There was a bit of instability out there but not enough to warrent a warning. It did go back to the NE from about 3pm but not enough factors to even dish out a one on my scale
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Just wondering were the 163 strikes, on stevens lightning site today were??
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So you think there will be small tornadoes!! lolAaron J Wilkinson wrote:By the looks of things no tornadoes of substance today.
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looks like something should happen in Aucks soonish.
This is the 1pm radar and the cells developing just north of auckland central have done so in the last 3 hours.
It feels quite warm outside to and the humidity is increasing while the pressure is dropping at around 0.5 HPa per hour.
The air has that lovely "still" feeling about it at the moment, and hopefully this midday heating will trigger some Cb development.
This is the 1pm radar and the cells developing just north of auckland central have done so in the last 3 hours.
It feels quite warm outside to and the humidity is increasing while the pressure is dropping at around 0.5 HPa per hour.
The air has that lovely "still" feeling about it at the moment, and hopefully this midday heating will trigger some Cb development.
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Yes I could see on the midday skew T moisture looked plentiful through most of the atmosphere which is unfortunate as ideally you only want the lower part of the atmosphere (lower 100mb, roughly 1000m) with moisture.
Storms definately formed just offshore along the east coast. Would this be due to the warmer sea temperatures than the lands?
A storm looks to of just finished off with the Taranaki area and is moving offshore. Another storm looks to be rumbling away right now off the east coast of Northland (200km) down to off the east coast of Auckland (100km).
So as spwill says, something could drift your way from off the sea.
If nothing today tomorrow could prove fruitfull as the upper high and mid level cloud would've most likely gone. I hope, we hope....we need some photo's!
Storms definately formed just offshore along the east coast. Would this be due to the warmer sea temperatures than the lands?
A storm looks to of just finished off with the Taranaki area and is moving offshore. Another storm looks to be rumbling away right now off the east coast of Northland (200km) down to off the east coast of Auckland (100km).
So as spwill says, something could drift your way from off the sea.
If nothing today tomorrow could prove fruitfull as the upper high and mid level cloud would've most likely gone. I hope, we hope....we need some photo's!
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Moist under 750mbs(2500m) is ideal. Dry above.Yes I could see on the midday skew T moisture looked plentiful through most of the atmosphere which is unfortunate as ideally you only want the lower part of the atmosphere (lower 100mb, roughly 1000m) with moisture
Midlevel moisture there today due to slow moving frontal trough over region.
Yes, its the warmer sea temps that have triggered the maritime storms.Storms definately formed just offshore along the east coast. Would this be due to the warmer sea temperatures than the lands?
If there had have been surface heating today, they would have been over land as well. I think maritime storms will weaken if they make landfall.
Yes, still a chance for tomorrow. We live in hope.tomorrow could prove fruitfull
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Some nice action of the east coast of the NI, moving down in big bands. I'd head for Cape Runaway right now if I could (that bit of NZ that sticks out to the NE), or maybe even the lower part of BOP. I'd say they'd be in for a storm or two within the next 2 hours or so.
That static your hearing Steven must be the big band I'm talking about above.
That static your hearing Steven must be the big band I'm talking about above.