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Few strikes down south near Dunedin now intersting .
Ok maybe on latest look a few a bit closer to Canty.
Some nice heavy rain here before sun breaking through now hopefully some nice heat although the S is pretty cold recorded 20mm here so farr since last night 10pm.
Here's some pics from yesterdays storm,Hail,what I thought was a funnel,and nice CB's.
Cheers
JASON TIPPET.

The photo's look great.

Satellite shows strong Cbs off the top of the South Island heading North . Taranaki looks in line for Thunder and hail later today.

More pics.

and more pics.

Couple more pics.
I will have lightning up from video camera sometime soon.
cheers
enjoy.
JASON TIPPET

Cool photos.

Looking at midday soundings, cb tops possible to about 7500m in the north to 8500 about central NZ. The 500mb temp over Auckland is -26C.
Thats very cold, I would say -10 to -15C would be the norm for December. I would say snow to 1000m in the central North Island.

Frequent showers in Auckland city this afternoon.

hail piling up here in another hail shower just gone through!
can be seen easily on the lawn now

!!!!!

great photos guys!

11.8oC after that shower, 2:30pm.....thats winter temperature for here

Heavy rain/hail here in Auckland City last 10mins.

i think we will get more yet, there is a big group of them off taranaki heading NE ...we might get the edge of them up here!

Yes it's heading straight for us, but the model forecasts aren't predicting anything special...

Yes, satellite photo's show Thundery Cbs heading our way.

Here's a photo of a local Cb this afternoon.

Yes, satellite photo's show Thundery Cbs heading our way.

Here's a photo of a local Cb this afternoon.

Thunder to the west of here now.

Active Cb around Auckland now. Several Thunder claps over central Auckland as one Cb passed here. Photo below shows rain and hail falling.

Yes, cb's looking more active from late afternoon.
A big clap of thunder over my place about 4pm. Heavy shower of hail around 5pm with more rumbles. Hail stones 8mm. And yet more hail in the last 10mins.

More Thunder and hail over Central Auckland, the third Thundery Cb here since 3pm.

That's hail falling in this photo up on Mt Eden 10 mins ago.

8.5oC here now!
more 50 knot squalls (you can hardly stand up!)
showers look very "old and cold " now

photo I took in 45 to 50 (93kmh) knot averaging winds (700 feet altitude)

Just had a nice heavy shower come through first bit of rain since midday been fine all afternoon. Southerly was strong too got some gusts of 45-50kmh. Clear again now with sunshine and not sure when the next shower is coming in.
I heard there was some Thunderstorms along the Plains today and of course the good ones that you guys are experincing in the NI so I hope you guys are having fun since it's been awhile since you have had some decent thunderstorms.
Some nice CB's this afternoon took some pics here's a few of them.
Cheers
JASON TIPPET.

more very heavy rain and hail and real close lightning strikes (3 seconds to the thunder) this time

awsome lightning display watching that shower go over the auckland city!
ricky, it must be right over you now!

yes! unfortunately I'm in Wellington!! oh well fingers crossed for wednesday perhaps.. was watching on the boltek earlier sure looked good

Aaron and I went chasing yesterday afternoon/evening after seeing some activity on the tracker down near Mt Peel.

No lightning seen but quite a few good Cbs, lenticularis and 5-10mm hail.

Heavy shower of small hail here as I type this. Squally showers of rain/hail woke me up a few times overnight.

also woke too some heavy showers/hail last night had to walk home in 1 too in the small wee hours of this morning! lol

Good to see you guys got out there yesterday!