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Invercargill as of not long agoVery cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Metservice updated warnings and watches out.. much the same but Canterbury north of Rangiora upgraded to a warning. 8-12cm to 200m. But the time frame is saying 8 hours from 1pm to 9pm Monday.... that must be a typo. 1pm to 9pm today makes a lot more sense.
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Yes i just saw a nice little video from a friend on Facebook down there ( invercargill) snowing nicely
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Looks like another uneventful day here so far. Clear and sunny yesterday, very nice at a café on the south coast with a view to the Kaikouras. Tapuaenuku looked good with its lowest snowline I've noticed this season.
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11mm here in the last hour. Fair bit of surface water/ponding
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Grocery shopping on hold. Snowing heavily .Temp 0.9C.Calm.24mm to 0900 this morning from yesterday's front and post front showers
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Metservice stubbornly sticking to little or no moisture for ChCh, presuming they've had good reason to toe that line the whole way over the last day or three
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Yet they just issued a road snow warning for porters pass... so they are thinking moisture will be far enough south... or atleast close to it. I think there is one more twist in this... snow warning out for this afternoon/evening for Rangiora northwards.Razor wrote: Sun 04/08/2019 11:00 Metservice stubbornly sticking to little or no moisture for ChCh, presuming they've had good reason to toe that line the whole way over the last day or three
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Just been speaking to my parents and its snowing and settling at there place ( Kumara junction, west coast, sea level)
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In Reefton currently on the way back to Chch. Raining here currently, should get snow showers before long as start the climb!
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200m lower than predicted....melja wrote: Sun 04/08/2019 11:26 Just been speaking to my parents and its snowing and settling at there place ( Kumara junction, west coast, sea level)
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PWS at there place, disregard accumulated rain as it's wrong.
Apparently full on big snow flakes.
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Some interesting formations to the south. Taken from Tai Tapu
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Still snowing Kumara junction

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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
1C at midday in Hokitika, I’d say that would be a very rare event for them indeed...
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Iv'e seen photos and videos of heavy ski field like snow in Greymouth....
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Very unusual for sea level in the north of Westland.
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
Skies are darkening over town, it's still so marginal for us. I feel we'll miss out on much in town, but would love it if I'm wrong about that and GFS is right!
Herbert got some more snow in the top overnight by the looks, I'll expect it to look whiter tomorrow!
Amazing to see snow to sea level on the coast though
Herbert got some more snow in the top overnight by the looks, I'll expect it to look whiter tomorrow!
Amazing to see snow to sea level on the coast though

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0.4C at 12.30pm
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Re: Very cold polar outbreak August 3rd-5th
My gut is telling me its about 100km north of hereChris W wrote: Sun 04/08/2019 12:39 Skies are darkening over town, it's still so marginal for us. I feel we'll miss out on much in town, but would love it if I'm wrong about that and GFS is right!
Herbert got some more snow in the top overnight by the looks, I'll expect it to look whiter tomorrow!
Amazing to see snow to sea level on the coast though![]()
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