Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Combined with an ECL bombing off the coast of aussie at present, id be watching that baby.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Is it the one talked about on Saturday with the dry air pushing into the cold tasman air?
Alas it does look cold for eastern areas again about Sunday.Dale Small wrote:Combined with an ECL bombing off the coast of aussie at present, id be watching that baby.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Excellent photo on the front page of todays Herald.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10601501
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10601501
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Some photos dad took today. Ive been told at 6am the snow was 1/3 of the way down.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
The severe weather outlook now has heavy snow with low confidence at this stage (due to 3-4 days away) for Waiouru and Central North Island Areas and for Canterbury, mainly inland.MarkThomas wrote:I see metservice forecasting snow to 500m in the deep south on Friday but to 300m in Canterbury. Looks like some decent rain Friday at this stage so the chance of heavy snow above 300m for the hill country and plains. May see some sleet on the hills. Also, a big area of polar air brewing in the southern ocean that may hit parts of the south in a weeks time. Long way out though.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
The brother and I went up Pirongia earlier on.. quite a hike. But totally majestic views and a bit of snow left, even enough to make a snowman!
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
nice one dan! i wished i had got in the car and gone this morning now...i could have but hey thems the breaks. certainly is a heavier event than a couple of months ago when i was on top of mt te araoha when it snowed for about 20 minutes
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Still snow visible to about 150m below the summit of Mt Te Aroha at about 6.30pm as I came home from Auckland this afternoon.
Front page of the BOP Times showed snow on the Kaimais this morning.
Front page of the BOP Times showed snow on the Kaimais this morning.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
we are in Raglan for a family holiday for a couple of days
could still see a bit of snow on mt Priongia on the way past yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm
thats a sight I will not see for a very long time!
could still see a bit of snow on mt Priongia on the way past yesterday afternoon at 4:30pm
thats a sight I will not see for a very long time!
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
That snowman must be one of the few that have ever been built in Waikato, well done LOL. I certainly enjoyed my taste of winter down there. That storm was a good mix of subtropical moisture and cold air, the worst of it over the regions east and south of Mt Ruapehu. West of Ruapehu including Whakapapa and National Park largely missed it!
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Re: General October Weather
Cheers for that DT.. much appreciated! FEI (for everyone's information!) I went to see Paul at Metservice yesterday.. Had an awesome time, report to follow..!DT-NZ wrote:Morning JaseJasestorm wrote:Nice photo of CU congestus there DTNZ, same clouds we have had here today with some reasonable height to them.
Thank's, I took this pic last week during last weeks thunderstorm, and, because Andrew could not be here to chase that storm... ( I just wish all of you could have been here to chase it ) I wanted to gift Andrew something special from the storm.
CU congestus *smiles* I'm learning all the time weather... thank you, I will never forget the name of these clouds it's locked in - here's a link to the original image (scaled down and un-cropped) - take care.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
SO cute!dan wrote:The brother and I went up Pirongia earlier on.. quite a hike. But totally majestic views and a bit of snow left, even enough to make a snowman!
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Re: General October Weather
Awesome and... lucky you (I would have liked to have meet Paul just to have an opportunity to listen to him talk about thunderstorms, weather related things) anyway, looking forward to reading follow up report - takecare.Andrew Massie wrote: I went to see Paul at Metservice yesterday.. Had an awesome time, report to follow..!
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
Hello, winter in spring time and no doubt being that it is the last week of the school holidays... it look's like the youngsters (your children/grandchildren(?) are enjoying the snow, great stuff.pomem wrote:We drove from Taupo to Napier today, the snow was spectacular!!
I have an 9 y/o son who's never seen the snow and has always wished to see it... oneday... he will - take care.
edit reasons - corrected my son's age from 8 - he turned 9 years old a couple of weeks ago.
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Re: Complex Trough and Heavy Snow Event - 2nd-6th Oct
It'll be interesting to see how many record low (for October) maximums there were recorded during this event. I see (from Rotorua Daily Post) that Rotorua recorded a 7.6C max on the 5th, coldest since records began at that station in 1964. NIWA report for month will no doubt show some more records.