General June Weather
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Re: General June Weather
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11471594
"We basically had rain first up, the rain stopped and then suddenly Queenstown was snap frozen. All that water on the runway and the roads just turned to ice."
Interesting observation. I wonder if the ground temperature was so cold, that when the front arrived it didn't warm up the ground fast enough.
"We basically had rain first up, the rain stopped and then suddenly Queenstown was snap frozen. All that water on the runway and the roads just turned to ice."
Interesting observation. I wonder if the ground temperature was so cold, that when the front arrived it didn't warm up the ground fast enough.
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Re: General June Weather
Gusty southerly change arrived here a short time ago.
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Re: General June Weather
http://www.metservice.com/warnings/thunderstorm-outlook
Small risk, but there nevertheless.
Small risk, but there nevertheless.
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Re: General June Weather
That radar getting some red in it now, a stormy old night. Looking forward to a nice day trip up to Arthurs Pass tomorrow
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Re: General June Weather
Going to be another extremely treacherous morning on the roads around Canterbury etc tomorrow
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Re: General June Weather
Lucky we bought new tyres today for the 4wdBradley wrote:Going to be another extremely treacherous morning on the roads around Canterbury etc tomorrow
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Re: General June Weather
Yes if this rain band clears witch it looks like its going to, and it clears overnight, theres a chance it could get down to -3 in the early hours probably starting around 4am onwards.. the roads will be extremely dangrous if this happens.. thankfully no work tomorrow!
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Re: General June Weather
Was lovely to have had warmer weather yesterday at work in Methven, finally we had the snow on the roof of the building starting to thaw. The downpipe had been frozen solid for the previous two days. I would say the roads would be very treacherous this morning. Here in Rakaia after the rain last night we had a really good frost here (I know it's a good frost when all the windows in the bus are iced up). The emergency services siren first went off just after 6am, then again a little over an hour later and for a third time just prior to 8am. Not a good morning for those guys so far.
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Re: General June Weather
Can't say I've ever seen these kind of figures forecast for Christchurch before, clearly we aren't going to get that amount but the models have been consistently throwing up huge rainfall figures the last few runs now 

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Re: General June Weather
I'm guessing all we need is some reasonable cold fronts in conjunction with this and the snowfields are going to get a pounding over the next 2-3 weeks?
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Re: General June Weather
Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over
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General June Weather
'Twas very spring like today. Warm in the afternoon. Even had some very shallow convective showers this afternoon.
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Re: General June Weather
I did too, but from the other side, and I thought there'd be more snow. We didn't go any further east than Arthurs Pass village, but I expected there to be more snow about. It was well and truly frozen, so no soft playful snow, but the kids still had a great time. Signs said chains required from Otira, but there wasn't any need at all. Worst bit was actually before getting to Otira with black ice on some of the shaded corners. No signs of grit before Otira which surprised me.Razor wrote:Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over
Was pretty damn cold tho...
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Re: General June Weather
Lovely still and sunny days here on the Pennisula most of last week, this was taken on Thursday afternoon.
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Re: General June Weather
Yes things were very different on the eastern side. Snow tailed off around Craigieburn/ Lake Pearson as is normal in the southerly events I guess. Lake Lyndon, Castle Hill and Cave Stream areas were an amazing sight, see pictureseinzack wrote:I did too, but from the other side, and I thought there'd be more snow. We didn't go any further east than Arthurs Pass village, but I expected there to be more snow about. It was well and truly frozen, so no soft playful snow, but the kids still had a great time. Signs said chains required from Otira, but there wasn't any need at all. Worst bit was actually before getting to Otira with black ice on some of the shaded corners. No signs of grit before Otira which surprised me.Razor wrote:Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over
Was pretty damn cold tho...
Bear in mind this is over a week after the big dump
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Re: General June Weather
Think they had snow over night friday as we came over the weekend after the big dump and road was dry and clear.
Went to Arthurs pass yesterday to empty hot water cylinder in the house and road was clear and dry too
Went to Arthurs pass yesterday to empty hot water cylinder in the house and road was clear and dry too
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Re: General June Weather
Yes it went NW Sat afternoon and road was good by Sat nightmelja wrote:Think they had snow over night friday as we came over the weekend after the big dump and road was dry and clear.
Went to Arthurs pass yesterday to empty hot water cylinder in the house and road was clear and dry too
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Re: General June Weather
Readings from my station for the month:
Ave temp 7.3°C
Ave Minimum 2.3°C
Ave Maximum 13.5°C
Minimum -3.3°C on 25th (9 air frosts + 2 days <1°C)
Maximum 19.6°C on 1st
Rainfall 73mm with 19.4mm on 18th, YTD 248.4mm
Ave temp 0.5C above "normal".
36.8mm of the rain fell during the low level snow event of 18th/19th.
Ave temp 7.3°C
Ave Minimum 2.3°C
Ave Maximum 13.5°C
Minimum -3.3°C on 25th (9 air frosts + 2 days <1°C)
Maximum 19.6°C on 1st
Rainfall 73mm with 19.4mm on 18th, YTD 248.4mm
Ave temp 0.5C above "normal".
36.8mm of the rain fell during the low level snow event of 18th/19th.
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Re: General June Weather
Readings from my station for Howick:
Avg temp 12.0C
Avg daily max 15.5C
Avg daily min 8.6C
Highest 18.9C
Lowest 0.4C
Rainfall 88mm
Avg temp 12.0C
Avg daily max 15.5C
Avg daily min 8.6C
Highest 18.9C
Lowest 0.4C
Rainfall 88mm
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Re: General June Weather
Looks like June temps were near average for NZ but on the warm side of average