Posts Tagged lightning


  • Thunderstorms! - January 29th, 2010 , Written By: Chris Noble | 4 Comments

    • The last week in January 2010 will be remembered by many over the central North Island for the frequent thunderstorms that developed in the afternoon, often lasting well into the evening. Conditions changed little during the week with a slack pressure gradient over the North Island allowing afternoon sea breezes to combine with abundant low [...]

  • The Thunderstorm in History - August 27th, 2009 , Written By: Erick Brenstrum | No Comments

    • One of the pleasures of reading history is coming across stories about the weather. Thunderstorms often figure in these. One of the most dramatic examples was recorded in the sixth century AD, by Gregory, Bishop of Tours, in his Historia Francorum (The History of the Franks). In AD 536 there were three rulers of Frankish [...]

  • Thunderstorms in Wellington - May 7th, 2009 , Written By: Ross Marsden | 2 Comments

    • Cumulonimbus cloud is not a common part of the Wellington cloudscape …

   

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