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\nMetService meteorologist Devlin Lynden says the thunderstorms will ease (file image).
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A calmer day is in store for parts of the South Island battered on Saturday by hail, and lashed by torrential downpours and lightning.<\/p>\n
One of the storms was a rare, powerful and long-lasting ‘supercell’ in the Canterbury Plains<\/a>.<\/p>\n In Ashburton, the council dispatched a contractor to clear street gutters after a big hail storm there.<\/p>\n New Zealand Transport Agency (NZTA) sent crews between Timaru and Fairlie to reports of hail blocking the road and cars being flooded.<\/p>\n MetService meteorologist Devlin Lynden says the thunderstorms will ease.<\/p>\n “Although there still is a moderate risk for northern parts of the South Island, however, the southern parts that have seen that significant thunderstorm activity yesterday, they are not in the firing line of thunderstorms.<\/p>\n “However, there will still be a few showers about.”<\/p>\n \u26c8\ufe0f It\u2019s been an active afternoon in the south \u26c8\ufe0f \ufe0f While there have been a number of severe hailstorms around this afternoon, we can confirm (based on radar reflectivity and Doppler analysis) that the most severe\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/e5N62XxU62<\/a><\/p>\n
Here is a video looking south from Rakaia of an active supercell.<\/p>\n