Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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After the Big Fizzer down here last weekend, when I saw tonight's forecast on TV3, my first thought was something along these lines:
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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GSVNoFixedAbode wrote:After the Big Fizzer down here last weekend, when I saw tonight's forecast on TV3, my first thought was something along these lines:
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Mr H....that effort is simply fantastic, Ill email you when the snow comes bucketing down as youll never know where you sit. :wave: :wave: :wave:
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Ha ha! Well... the chips are down! The battle of the Otagoians!
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Re: Frosty High, 1-5th June

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Still looks like a brief icy blast for NZ tomorrow, but coldest air should push out to the east - I haven't heard snow being forecast for the Chatham Islands for a long time. (though sleet is undoubtedly more common)
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Re: Frosty High, 1-5th June

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tich wrote:Still looks like a brief icy blast for NZ tomorrow, but coldest air should push out to the east - I haven't heard snow being forecast for the Chatham Islands for a long time. (though sleet is undoubtedly more common)
Yeah, looks like they will bear the brunt of this system...lucky buggers! :wave: :-w :lol:
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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I think we will see a dry southerly change here tomorrow with the excpetion of on very brief shower or drizzle that doesnt even make the ground wet. Chance of some heavy rain for Northern and Western regions later in the week. May turn southerly at the end of next week with heavier rain for eastern south island areas. Long way out i know
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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MarkThomas wrote:I think we will see a dry southerly change here tomorrow with the excpetion of on very brief shower or drizzle that doesnt even make the ground wet. Chance of some heavy rain for Northern and Western regions later in the week. May turn southerly at the end of next week with heavier rain for eastern south island areas. Long way out i know

Yeah i don't think it will amount to much.. maybe few showers, bit of hail.. very cold change though but very brief.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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An impressive pool of Cb cloud with the very cold air out to the east of the SI.

14C here feels warm after recent chilly weather.
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spwill wrote:An impressive pool of Cb cloud with the very cold air out to the east of the SI.

14C here feels warm after recent chilly weather.
Will stay to the east as well...we'll be lucky to get a "flick"....
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Nothing down here except rain and wind...5.1deg.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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brief hail shower just passed through here in central dunedin
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Wind has gone from W-SW to a fresh gusty Southerly now, i noticed the clouds moved in from the S-SE direction instead of the normal SW direction route they take.
Will this mean things offshore will push more onshore, also heaps of scatterd CU about now and looks like a shower coming to the south.
Only managed 9C today back to 7C now as the sun peeps in and out.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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After a glorious, blue sky morning it's just started to turn here in inland Canters... strangely - the cold wind seems to be coming from the south but the clouds are skidding across from the direction of the Alps.. why is this?
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Hmm doesnt look like anything is going to eventuate from this blast, would have thought atleast a brief belt of showers.
Just dry with lower cloud drifting over and a cold fresh gusty southerly.
I look forward to the warmer spell next week :wave:.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Wow - what a morning for netball. Gorgeous sunshine with little wind. Right up til the start of the last round (start time 1.25pm). Fresh raw southerlies, and then a good shower while on way home at 2.45pm. Very cold, but not a lot of moisture. We still have patches of snow in our shady areas from last weekend, and had the best frost of the week this morning. As I check out the window, we have a little moisture falling and dark grey clouds.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Darkening in central Chch but still dry. Obs and radar suggest light shower activity over BP, with probable snow at higher levels. (4C at LeBons at 3pm) But if you want snow to low levels, probably best to fly to the Chathams. (not exactly any real higher country there - highest point just short of 300m asl)
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Low grey cloud and has been raining for about an hour... 4.5degs.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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MoorfNZ wrote:After a glorious, blue sky morning it's just started to turn here in inland Canters... strangely - the cold wind seems to be coming from the south but the clouds are skidding across from the direction of the Alps.. why is this?
NW up top and S down below :wave:
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Thanks Mike.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Much to my surprise there has been a dusting of snow on the hills this morning! You can just see it from where i live on a couple areas of the port hills
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Nothing down here.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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Much to my surprise there has been a dusting of snow on the hills this morning! You can just see it from where i live on a couple areas of the port hills
All gone by 10am when I passed Halswell. Nothing fresh (still a few old patches) on Mt Herbert and neighbours, but light dustings visible on shady slopes on Akaroa side of harbour above about 400m.
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Re: Brief cold spell Saturday 6th June

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I was having a wee break at Lake Tekapo on Saturday and thought you might like to see this picture I took looking to the South as the front moved in, also the corresponding SAT picture from approximately the same time from landcare research. :wave:
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