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2 years to the day , instead the ground rubble , the weather decided to put on a show , Lightning storm was fantastic .. as the thunder , with an earthquake its the truck coming down the road .. this time boy oh boy , the hail ! 15/20 mm hailstones ... heard it coming a good five minutes before ... Just impressive!

I think it's time you lot stopped hogging all the action and spread some around... Much as I don't like the thought of lots of dents in my car or roof, Napier is the king of "boring weather", and it sucks...

Shaken Weather/Ground Hog day .. man you really had to see the light show as well , and the sound , stand outside and watch it incoming SUPERB!

Guess we are a little greedy for the excitement here in Wobblyville

Last time I had the pleasure of a kick-ass "man's" thunderstorm was 1979 in Costa Rica. We were living in San Jose (captial) which, if I remember rightly, is at either 3,000 or 5,000 ft above sea level. We used to joke that the storms never happened OVER the city but IN it. The thunder was so loud that it would violently rattle glass panes and would had to shout very loudly to be heard. And they weren't these 5 or 10 minute wonders - they would last an hour, easily. And the rain - never seen rain like that: so thick it looked like a grey curtain moving down the road. I remember watching one of these curtains from the balcony one day - there was a guy on a small motorbike tearing up the road trying to outrun this thing. I have no idea how fast he was going, but the rain whooshed past him like he was standing still! The only decent thunderstorm I can remember for Napier - that actually happened over the city, not out at sea, was back in 2005 or so: the first time I recall being woken up at night by a NZ thunderstorm (about 1am if I remember rightly). It was a fairly good show, and I managed to video it.