Eyewitness reports of this weekend’s thunderstorms range from “loud thunder and lightning directly above us” to “non-stop lightning” to “hardly anything”.
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rob on 15/05/2010 11:10am
no thunder in Kaitaia, all looked very promising then just buggered off. Still,40 mm since may 1st so at least grass has changed to a more greeny colour.
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Allen Pidwell on 15/05/2010 7:38am
By Taranaki standards the last few days have been a minor inconvenience -mostly causing the lab to shiver!
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