Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
I thought it'd stay as tiny flakes for the rest of the day.. I was wrong.. Decvent sized flakes now coming down fast and covering the driveway.. Reports elsewhere now?
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Very thick at burwood, then it goes back to rain, then very thick aagin.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Snow mixed with rain before then stopped but has since returned with a few bigger flakes now, nothing settled at all here typical for this of event though.
Doesnt surprise me about the thunder and lightning should be more too.
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Doesnt surprise me about the thunder and lightning should be more too.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Now starting to settle. Snowing quite steadily last 10 mins or so after it had stopped.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
My parents who live in Mosgiel near Dunedin say they have had rain there today, no snow.
Recent Canterbury winters have been stealing the snow show from Dunedin.
Recent Canterbury winters have been stealing the snow show from Dunedin.
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Its settled here on the grass, its actually quite thick, starrting to settle on the road, heck some lady is jogging in it!!!
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Seems to go from small flakes to big ones! Off to a mates now so I'll check back on the rest of the days reports when I get back way later
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Central Chch now turning white and still coming down thick & fast.
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Settling on the concrete (road, driveway) now, looking pretty white everywhere. Over the cm mark now, bit of grass still showing due to the horizontalness of the snow.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Make that heavy snow and settling .
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
snowing hardout, everything white, looks to be possible thunderstorms coming up by judging rain radar far out.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Temprature will start to drop from 5pm,0.7 C here so will only get worse if its still snowing at sunset still 2mm/hr here
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Some pics from up the hill ... all roads closed up here now, guy next door couldn't get his ford Explorer out ...
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
It's now raining. How it rains at 0.8 C, I don't know. Maybe the freezing level has raised, and it's just cooler at the surface?
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Yep being raining here for about 20 minutes, still it was fun while it lasted
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
If it's anything like Dunedin the same happening here. It's still raining down here (I'm at work for a bit, around 40m above sea level) and lots of rain. 24mm so far today (might be a bit of melted snow in that , so anything higher up should be getting a fair whack of snow. A few cars have been around town today with a lot of snow of themInny Binny wrote:It's now raining. How it rains at 0.8 C, I don't know. Maybe the freezing level has raised, and it's just cooler at the surface?
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Still coming down light snow here at the moment little bit of a settle but not quite a cm.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Still snowing here in Rolleston. Seems to be getting lighter though.
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The rain has stopped here.
Whats the forcast for tonight and tomorrow morning?
Whats the forcast for tonight and tomorrow morning?
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more precipitation lining up chch on the rain radar still
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How much did you get? It stopped at our place a while ago, we got about half an inch before it started raining. There's still plenty around, went out to make a snowman just in case it disappears.
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Re: Early July storms & Cold outbreak - South Is.
Any change of more snow overnight? the rain has come back aagin