Dec 30th/31st, Jan 1st storms, New Zealand!
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Should be imteresting what we get, Aaron and I are off stormchasing today and I would think StevenG would be off chasing today!
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Metservice is picking eastern Otago and northern Southland for the most severe thunderstorms today:
http://metservice.com/default/index.php ... key=212868
http://metservice.com/default/index.php ... key=212868
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Sunny here in the Mackenzie right now.GreggWard wrote:Metservice is picking eastern Otago and northern Southland for the most severe thunderstorms today:
http://metservice.com/default/index.php ... key=212868
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Same here... off this afternoon to have a look . Going to take the laptop this time as I don't always have enough space on my memorysticks and I can just dump the photos and check them later. Last time and had to keep popping home to get more space
Here's to a great day
Here's to a great day
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Chris Raine wrote:Planning to get north of the murk and chase thunderstorms in Otago later today .
Drizzley and murky here too, with only about 100m visibility up in the hill suburbs. Light breeze from the SW at present but has that feel that it will lift soon?Gary Roberts wrote:Sunny here in the Mackenzie right now.
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Yeah with my photo's I took last night I thought they were Mamatus by thw way they looked and how you often see them after or before a TS.
But yeah they are Altocumuls when I think of that yeah good spotting guys I just looked in my weather book which that book happend to be from America and all my other weather are NZ.
Yeah 20.6dg here now with a light NE wind scatterd cloud broken up to the west of me no CB's or CU as to speak of just yet but it's still early days yet I do expect TS to start popping up from about midday onwards.
I have all my stuff ready for TS got all batteries charged up and ready to take on an afternoon/evening of TS.
Happy Storm chasing down south and In Canty maybe even up north around Auckland/Northland area.
Cheers
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But yeah they are Altocumuls when I think of that yeah good spotting guys I just looked in my weather book which that book happend to be from America and all my other weather are NZ.
Yeah 20.6dg here now with a light NE wind scatterd cloud broken up to the west of me no CB's or CU as to speak of just yet but it's still early days yet I do expect TS to start popping up from about midday onwards.
I have all my stuff ready for TS got all batteries charged up and ready to take on an afternoon/evening of TS.
Happy Storm chasing down south and In Canty maybe even up north around Auckland/Northland area.
Cheers
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There was some nice cb mammatus over Auckland early this year.
Photo here
http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz/newpage5.htm
Photo here
http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz/newpage5.htm
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Who know's where the road will take us today, the skies the limit.....things look ok to be available to stormchase over the next 3 days none stop. That's if they happen like that, looking forward to a possible night time show to.
Awsome to see the severe forecast for storms, looking foward to it!! We might get to the edge of it or a bit further in if where daring enough, otherwise I'm sure the rest of Canterbury will be great!
Have a good one and look foward to some great stories.
Awsome to see the severe forecast for storms, looking foward to it!! We might get to the edge of it or a bit further in if where daring enough, otherwise I'm sure the rest of Canterbury will be great!
Have a good one and look foward to some great stories.
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Well I 'm back after driving up to Lumsden and half way to Gore. Torrential rain from what appears to be a convergence zone around Dipton down to Winton . No thundery activity although a few distant spherics on the radio . Dense overcast so any activity would have to embedded. Rain band appeasr to be tracking slowly SE.
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So... we drove to inland Otago about 3.30pm. Headed through Outram, inland to Middlemarch and a bit further around that area. The skies stayed claggy all the way with intermittent drizzle.
Sperics on the radio from about 4pm to 4.45pm and then never heard another one. But as Chris said the sky was so densely overcast that any activity would be hard to spot.
Got home about 7.30pm with nothing more than a 200km round trip, a nice coffee in Middlemarch and these two stupid photos... 'one tree hill' (you can see how overcast it was) and 'where's the bacon & bread?'...
Sperics on the radio from about 4pm to 4.45pm and then never heard another one. But as Chris said the sky was so densely overcast that any activity would be hard to spot.
Got home about 7.30pm with nothing more than a 200km round trip, a nice coffee in Middlemarch and these two stupid photos... 'one tree hill' (you can see how overcast it was) and 'where's the bacon & bread?'...
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I had nothing really in store for today (and I smoked lots as well ) and it is really sad to see that you 2 Southern guys had a non eventful day except maybe for the silly road sign photographs!
A slightly better day could be in store tomorrow as long as the cloud clears to allow for ground heating.
Skies are clearing a bit now here with lots of thunder potential indicators up there in the sky. If that had of been earlier and depending on what was happening earlier on in the atmosphere, things could of been different.
Nevermind.
1 is about the best I can drag up for tomorrow
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A slightly better day could be in store tomorrow as long as the cloud clears to allow for ground heating.
Skies are clearing a bit now here with lots of thunder potential indicators up there in the sky. If that had of been earlier and depending on what was happening earlier on in the atmosphere, things could of been different.
Nevermind.
1 is about the best I can drag up for tomorrow
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Headed west at about 4:30pm to Rakaia Gorge with some "interesting" unstable skies near and in the mountains but the bases were fairly high. By the time I reached the south side of the river the sky was overcast with light rain, cloud was almost to ground level. Drove down to Mt Somers then across to Rakaia and back home just before 8pm.
It started clearing north of Dunsandel and was sunny in Templeton ! Another 180km with only a few cloud photos to show for it - no interesting road signs
It started clearing north of Dunsandel and was sunny in Templeton ! Another 180km with only a few cloud photos to show for it - no interesting road signs
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Looks like another fizzer day. This low over NZ lacks the cold upper air1 is about the best I can drag up for tomorrow
and over Otago/Southland were the upper air is coldest (500mb -18C) the weather is cloudy and cool.
My thunderstorm forecast for NZ today is a slight chance of an afternoon cb over inland Canterbury. I don't expect any noteworthy convection over the North Island today.
Air should be more unstable over NZ tomorrow.
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Doesnt look to bad for today
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TODAY: 78.9 kmh (240°) @ 01:05
Abit of a gust caught at Templeton compared to what Jeffs max gust was:
21 kmh at 03:30
Abit of a gust caught at Templeton compared to what Jeffs max gust was:
21 kmh at 03:30
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