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New Zealand weather events
« on: 17 October 2006, 11:59:56 AM »
With the cold troughs of a weak El Nino there has been some big lightning shows along the west coast of the South Island in the past month.  Elsewhere in NZ just the odd weak storm.  Photo here from 30th September of a landspout funnel over West Auckland within a thunder shower.

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« Reply #1 on: 18 October 2006, 12:32:12 AM »
Very nice Steven!

Any damage?

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« Reply #2 on: 19 October 2006, 11:14:28 AM »
No, but another storm the following day left a trail of minor damage which the fire service said was caused by a 'mini tornado' !!!  ::) ;D

Just add a photo here of the Oct 1st storm. Gust front over Auckland City.



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« Reply #3 on: 19 October 2006, 02:55:45 PM »
That is an impressive perspective of the gust front and shelf cloud!

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RE: New Zealand weather events
« Reply #4 on: 19 November 2006, 12:46:53 PM »
Slightly off topic but icebergs are making to the NZ mainland this spring. They are off the coast of Dunedin.

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« Reply #5 on: 19 November 2006, 01:54:44 PM »
Hi Steve,

Yes heard about that ice berg - unbelievable site. I guess global warming/climate change is all over the news?

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RE: New Zealand weather events
« Reply #6 on: 19 December 2006, 01:41:59 PM »

We are have a very cool and stable summer over here. >:(

We got scattered thunderstorms over northern NZ last Saturday with marble hail.  Photos of lightning over East Auckland area.







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« Reply #7 on: 03 January 2007, 03:32:41 AM »

We had a cold trough with unstable weather over the North Island last couple of days. 500mb temps around -25C.  Afternoon thunderstorms with hail upto marble size observed in some places.     

This landspout funnel cloud occured over Auckland on the 31st December.



 
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« Reply #8 on: 03 January 2007, 05:35:37 AM »
Nice shot of the funnel Steven - do you have any more photos of it, including any structure of the clouds ?

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« Reply #9 on: 04 January 2007, 12:56:17 PM »
Hi Michael,  there was no real structure to the cloud build up.  This was a garden variety funnel cloud off tcu/cb. 

Something we don't see much of in NZ is structured severe storms like those in New South Wales or USA.
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