Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
SnwAddct - good wintry photos, especially of Ohakune
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
8c and snowing right now with Sun!! Thats a first...was not expecting snow showers today.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
NZ Herald reports via Civil Defence that it has snowed on Great Barrier Island. Presumably on Mt Hobson/ Mt Heale? They'd be high enough, about 600m off the top of my head
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
The photo shown on the Auckland Civil Defence Facebook page is of a white coating at Claris, near sea-level on the east side of the island. Surely must be hail.Razor wrote:NZ Herald reports via Civil Defence that it has snowed on Great Barrier Island. Presumably on Mt Hobson/ Mt Heale? They'd be high enough, about 600m off the top of my head
Mt Hobson is 621m. I was told when on the island that there were non-settling snowflakes reported on a high property on the island during the August 2011 wintry outbreak.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Yes, hail there, came with the thunderstorms in that area yesterday eveningtich wrote: The photo shown on the Auckland Civil Defence Facebook page is of a white coating at Claris, near sea-level on the east side of the island. Surely must be hail.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Civil Defence saying on Twitter that flurries were observed, and that MetService are saying it was probably graupel. But that photo posted does look more like a result of the hailstorm.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
An active area of Cbs onto the eastern NI this evening
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Some photos of today's snow at Tawa and notes on other recent falls can be found here.
http://wildland.owdjim.gen.nz/?p=1561
http://wildland.owdjim.gen.nz/?p=1561
Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
99% of NZ's hail is actually graupel. I think Canterbury sometimes gets some decent hailstorms in the summer, but other than that we usually just get teeny tiny hailstones, i.e. graupel. If it were true hail it would be big enough that it would surely be impossible to confuse for snow. In saying that though, I guess Aucklander's don't necessarily know what snow looks like...littleheaven wrote:Civil Defence saying on Twitter that flurries were observed, and that MetService are saying it was probably graupel. But that photo posted does look more like a result of the hailstorm.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
This wasn't Graupeldizzy wrote:99% of NZ's hail is actually graupel
http://www.weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/v ... 962#p66962
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
It seems there are some people who don't know what hail looks likedizzy wrote:99% of NZ's hail is actually graupel. I think Canterbury sometimes gets some decent hailstorms in the summer, but other than that we usually just get teeny tiny hailstones, i.e. graupel. If it were true hail it would be big enough that it would surely be impossible to confuse for snow. In saying that though, I guess Aucklander's don't necessarily know what snow looks like...littleheaven wrote:Civil Defence saying on Twitter that flurries were observed, and that MetService are saying it was probably graupel. But that photo posted does look more like a result of the hailstorm.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
I take Dizzy's point, noting the pics attached above were probably in the 'less common' category from a summer storm'tgsnoopy wrote:This wasn't Graupeldizzy wrote:99% of NZ's hail is actually graupel
http://www.weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/v ... 962#p66962
Certainly most of the winter hail we get in NZ would tend to be 'graupel', right?
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Most hail in NZ is proper hail (solid ice).
Graupel is a ball of snow (snow pellets). Common in coastal Otago/Southland in winter. We had graupel in Auckland about 5 years ago.
Graupel is a ball of snow (snow pellets). Common in coastal Otago/Southland in winter. We had graupel in Auckland about 5 years ago.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Its also common here in CanterburyNZstorm wrote:Most hail in NZ is proper hail (solid ice).
Graupel is a ball of snow (snow pellets). Common in coastal Otago/Southland in winter. We had graupel in Auckland about 5 years ago.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Possibly the case for Dunedin - Christchurch.Razor wrote: I take Dizzy's point, noting the pics attached above were probably in the 'less common' category from a summer storm'
Certainly most of the winter hail we get in NZ would tend to be 'graupel', right?
I'm picking Invercargill would see more hail than graupel, they catch the tall Cb clouds in the cold unstable westerlies which would tend to have hail.
Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
We've clearly been taught different definitions of hail vs. graupel. I was taught that graupel is a result of rimed ice, whereas hail consists of snap-frozen, clear ice, and often has layers, as it is cycled through a CB multiple times in the updraughts.NZstorm wrote:Most hail in NZ is proper hail (solid ice).
Graupel is a ball of snow (snow pellets). Common in coastal Otago/Southland in winter. We had graupel in Auckland about 5 years ago.
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Amazing to see that days later there is still snow on the Desert Rd, goes to show how long its been cold for..
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
Not that odd...wasn't last year like 1m deep in parts and lasted weeks?SnwAddct wrote:Amazing to see that days later there is still snow on the Desert Rd, goes to show how long its been cold for..
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Re: Low/Heavy Snow - Central and Lower North Island - July 7-10
I drove down the Desert Road Sunday.
I think the lingering cold air has made the lower level snow hang on longer than normal.
I think the lingering cold air has made the lower level snow hang on longer than normal.
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