Snow down to 600-700m in the Mackenzie overnight.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 08:34

Anybody else get any? Dunedin or Christchurch guys?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 26/04/2006 08:40

Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 08:44

spwill wrote:Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.

Gonna go get pics if you're interested.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 26/04/2006 08:52

spwill wrote:
Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.

Gonna go get pics if you're interested.

Metservice is now forecasting snow down to 900m in Southern Lakes area, but it obviously got lower than that, enough to close the Lindis Pass. 3C with recent precip at Tara Hills at 6am, so this isn't surprising.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Wed 26/04/2006 08:59

Gary Roberts wrote:Anybody else get any? Dunedin or Christchurch guys?

Might be some on the top of Castle Hill Peak but that would be 1800+m which is closer to the forecast freezing level.

The new Tekapo webcam is at about 1000m and there's snow as far as you can see down the hillside

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 26/04/2006 09:20

Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.

I was estimating 500m. But the ridge in the southern oceans came to the rescue of the SI and cut off the cold air supply and the subtropical airmass has won out.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Wed 26/04/2006 09:30

Gary Roberts wrote:
spwill wrote:Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.
Gonna go get pics if you're interested.

Yep that would be super

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 09:30

tich wrote:
spwill wrote:
Snow to 600-700m
No one forecast that.

Gonna go get pics if you're interested.
Metservice is now forecasting snow down to 900m in Southern Lakes area, but it obviously got lower than that, enough to close the Lindis Pass. 3C with recent precip at Tara Hills at 6am, so this isn't surprising.

5cm on the Lindis (yep, it's closed), and sleet falling from Burke Pass to Simons Hill (just north of Lake Pukaki). The highway between Oamaru and Palmerston is closed because of surface flooding, and SH83 between Omarama and Oamaru is borderline.

Say, maybe autumn has finally arrived...

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Wed 26/04/2006 09:32

Some links of mt cams - anymore?

http://www.tekapotourism.com/webcam.htm

http://www.snow.co.nz/snowreports/report_index.asp

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 09:47

Yes, these pics suck, but I've always freely acknowledged being the World's Worst Photographer, so I make no apologies to you guys who know how to use a camera properly!

http://www.observatory.org.nz/Temp/north_wide.JPG

http://www.observatory.org.nz/Temp/north_zoom.JPG

http://www.observatory.org.nz/Temp/west.JPG

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Wed 26/04/2006 10:04

Cheers Gary

How much rain have you recorded so far?

18mm here in Alex. Temp 7.8 - with steady light rain falling.

Day off work for me

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 10:09

Andy wrote:Cheers Gary

How much rain have you recorded so far?

18mm here in Alex. Temp 7.8 - with steady light rain falling.

Day off work for me

To 0900, 27mm at Omarama, 24mm at Lake Ohau, and your guess is as good as mine at Twizel (I was supposed to toss out the braindead Davis station and install the new Vaisala today, but called in crook instead...heh...)

3.6Â° at Lake Ohau right now, but a balmy 6.5Â° in tropical Omarama.

Manukau heads obs · Wed 26/04/2006 11:02

is there anywhere to see yesterdays rain totals gary on your web sites?

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 11:11

Manukau heads observer wrote:is there anywhere to see yesterdays rain totals gary on your web sites?

On the Lake Ohau and Omarama pages you can use the 'Extremes' link ( http://www.observatory.org.nz/weather/o ... ndex1.html & http://www.observatory.org.nz/weather/l ... ndex1.html )

Unfortunately the current Twizel station doesn't work properly, and won't play nice with HTML, so don't even waste your time with that.

Razor · Unread post by **Razor** » Wed 26/04/2006 11:25

snowing reasonably low at Arthurs Pass
see http://www.softrock.co.nz for Graeme Kate's station details, theres a link to full weather station on front page

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 11:32

Razor wrote:snowing reasonably low at Arthurs Pass
see http://www.softrock.co.nz for Graeme Kate's station details, theres a link to full weather station on front page

Cheers for that.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 14:26

The road at Moeraki (where the 'famous' spherical boulders are to be found, between Oamaru and Dunedin) is to stay closed for between three and eight days due to sever surface flooding and slips. The Lindis Pass has just reopened though.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 26/04/2006 14:33

Some good flooding photos here
http://southernskylines.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1501

Cheers

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Wed 26/04/2006 14:44

Gary Roberts wrote:The road at Moeraki (where the 'famous' spherical boulders are to be found, between Oamaru and Dunedin) is to stay closed for between three and eight days due to sever surface flooding and slips. The Lindis Pass has just reopened though.

EDIT: The engineer guys have got one lane open now at Moeraki.

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 26/04/2006 15:08

Some good flooding photos here
http://southernskylines.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1501

Good photo's, I grew up in Mosgiel and never saw the Silver stream that high.

The biggest threat for flooding down on the Taieri comes from the Taieri River but it usually takes a day or two for the water to come down from the back country.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Wed 26/04/2006 15:20

Impressive - looks bad, but I'm pretty sure that there would be a few events in the 1950s and earlier that matched it. I suspect the benchmark event for that century was the floods in May 1923, affecting many places in the east from N Canty southwards.

borris89 · Unread post by **borris89** » Wed 26/04/2006 17:14

wow my nana lives by the silverstream and that is her house the second one down i have never seen the stream that high either i used to play in there lol its usually only a foot deep

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 26/04/2006 19:23

I think this flood could be a bit different to earlier floods in that heaviest rainfall totals were near the coast. The totals I have seen suggest a record deluge for some parts.

Tks for the link to those pics Foggy.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Thu 27/04/2006 10:32

Lakes Pukaki and Tekapo are up 1 meter so far. Not enough rain in the catchment, mostly snow, but 1 meter is better than none.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Thu 27/04/2006 11:06

On Coast FM this morn the Waikato power lines have been mothballed and Auckland has to find alternative plans closer.....perhaps with all the winter rain we could get our own hydro lakes

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