Yay finally something to shiver over this winter as a cold blast will probly make it's presence felt over the country especailly by Sunday.
Snow could lower to low levls in the south and east of the south island iam not sure about the north island probly 6-700m I would think others?.
Something to graze apon anyway since the weather has rather .
Thunderstorms in the west too coudl be minni tornadoes maybe as MS say 80-110kmh gusts with the storm or is that over estimating the will to spin .
Cheers
JASON.
Well I haven't looked into too much yet but as far as thunderstorms go it looks like the afternoon on Saturday is the day for us if we're going to get one! Here's hoping!
I can't see much of these gusty NW winds metservice are talking about, in inland areas perhaps but not here on the coast. Will be moderate NE winds easing on the day of possible storms, perhaps even tending southerly which would be a real treat and set off a convergence!
Can't see too much getting up the East Coast at the weekend, the High/Ridge in the Tasman will be in the wrong position, needs to be further South for a good Wintry Blast.
I see Met Service say snow possible to low levels for the South and East of the South Island.
Aaron J Wilkinson wrote:Well I haven't looked into too much yet but as far as thunderstorms go it looks like the afternoon on Saturday is the day for us if we're going to get one! Here's hoping!
I can't see much of these gusty NW winds metservice are talking about, in inland areas perhaps but not here on the coast. Will be moderate NE winds easing on the day of possible storms, perhaps even tending southerly which would be a real treat and set off a convergence!
Cheers
Hi Aaron, I tend to agree with you on this
Looked very thundery towards the Alps this afternoon, was even picking up a few sferics.
Depends on timing and the activeness of the fronts moving up and across
In the long term, unfortunately, looking rather boring
...thats global warming for ya JohnGaul
NZTS
May still happen
Keep thy fingers, toes and arse crossed so for the possibility?
....but methinks a fizzer
Very thundery looking along the Alps today
I'd say that they would of had a few claps/zaps in some areas over there
Looks like the West coast and far south will take the brunt of cold wet weather this weekend, maybe Canterbury might get something on Sunday, but it looks 50-50 with a southwesterly.
Already snow on the Lindis Pass, so the northwesterly flow atm seems to be colder than it feels here the east. (must be the same airmass that dumped low-level snow in SE Australia)
Yes John, things just feel less likely for tomorow. But we'll keep f,l and a's crossed in anticapation!
The cold air is still coming over, will it be NW though? Here today it has gone NW but also ENE as times. There were 60 knot winds @ 500mb, tomorrow it's 25/30 knots so chances are it's less likely a NW will come through but surface winds in generall are showing to be the same so it could and in doing so rob us of moisture......oh well. Wait and see.
Yes it is a fizzler now ohh well iam still looking forward to storm season.
Seen those Journelists to the west last night taking photo's of Canterbury yes some nice blinks of lightning to the west last night occasionally not as frequent as in summer but still something.
Looks to get thundery along the Alps today nice anvil clouds to west spreading eastwards to create high cloud wow .
Cheers
JASON.
Tomoro there is a chance of something around midday, its not impressive but its the best situation we have had in a while and as metservice have on the thunderstorm forecast out of shore looks like the best place for these storms to fire up, bugger.
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i see the SI ski fields have had 20cm of snow (for most) over the last 24 hours, so thats good news, with all those active CB showers moving over the SI
Manukau heads observer wrote:i see the SI ski fields have had 20cm of snow (for most) over the last 24 hours, so thats good news, with all those active CB showers moving over the SI
I'm heading up to the Ohau skifield right now, so I'll post some pics later. A lovely (albeit breezy) day in the Mackenzie.
Can see snow under the Cb in your photo Stormchaser, common with Cb's down South in Winter but uncommon up here around AK.
SI ski fields have had 20cm of snow (for most) over the last 24 hours
West/NW flow has meant most of the snow in recent days has fallen on the Fields close to the Divide, TrebleCone has done well while Mt Hutt has missed a lot of it.
Darn using old computer new one has something wrong with it so different using this computer again.
Heard It's been raining off and on in CHCH nothing out here so farr that second cold front hasn't arrived yet with forecast heavy showers MS interesting i see snow is now forecast to 300m down south today hmmm.
Cheers
JASON.
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iam still looking forward to storm season. 
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