In CHCH that is! 
Another lovely fine day here in Omarama. Warm and sunny, with no more snow lying anywhere. More blossoms on the trees too.03 Stormchaser wrote:Snow has now begain fall for the second time over the last couple of days!!!
This snow is coming from the south and seems not to be really linked to the low situated of the east coast. So hopefully the worst is still to come later today/tonight
Current weather:
Wind: 13 km/hr. WSW
Rain Today: 0
Humidity: 54%
Add snow too that list!!
Looks like a strong southerly or southwesterly is lashing Taupo. The clouds look like they're building up over the central high country - no doubt the snow showers are increasing there. While it still looks relatively fine in Taupo at this stage, the cold wintry showers are predicted to spread over northern areas. It's not very often that you hear MetService forecasts of snow not only for the central high country, but for the high areas further north, well south of Auckland above about 500 metres in this case.OH MY GOD!Oh, and Brian, do you ever get tired of hawking your software here?
Proves that the flow is more south/southeast than southwest now, so it's not just coastal. Brief light showers (of the liquid variety) passing over central Chch with sunny breaks and a comparatively balmy 6-7C. I guess this about as clement the weather will get here today. The wind has freshened withing the last hour or so, but still far from galeforce.As I had hoped, it has begun. Kids have been sent home early because of it and I'm off to make a snowman. Hehehe, I feel so childish!
The smilies afterwards mean's it's just tounge in cheak.does anyone else think like that?
if so, then I am outa here
Maybe a bit too much tounge ), no more to say, ditto.....
Tokaanu and Turangi are about 350m asl, virtually at lake level. Taupo obs (check the webcam of previous page of this thread) showed 5C at 6PM.just talking to the farther in law in tokaanu (near turangi)
some flakes of snow there
that front really pushing on
Some Northland stations were reporting even colder temperatures than Auckland today5290 THK for Auckland must be close to a record - at least a 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 year value I would think.
, with showers passing over. Well MetService did predict snow for the higher ranges north of the central North Island plateau. Interestingly the storm and rainband system moving back onto the North island, while it should raise freezing levels tomorrow, may bring the heaviest and lowest snow for the North Island overnight and early tomorrow morning. I suggest this on memory of past events where increases in precipitation intensity drops the freezing level before the warmer air from the new system takes over. (classic warm advection scenario) It least we've had plenty of warning - this may mean negative impacts could be minimised somewhat. BTW, I'm surpised the highway from Chch to Akaroa at Hilltop (about 450m asl) hasn't been closed by heavy snow (Press photo showed the snow was certainly heavy up there) - the graders must've been working overtime! While you are correct, Auckland recorded a thickness of 5292 on the 5th July 2003, during the big North Island snow event.5290 THK for Auckland must be close to a record - at least a 1 in 10 to 1 in 20 year value I would think
Sounds hard to believe, but could there even be snow on some higher areas near Auckland tonight, say the Waitakares or Hunuas?The 850hpa temperature over Auckland today was around minus 3.
Not the sort of temps you think of for Auckland. Cb's today looked very wintry with solid precip falling, just like I used to see when I was living in Otago.
