Polar blast lines up for spring

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Bencla
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Re: Polar blast lines up for spring

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Great video Moorfnz, just yuk rain here in Fernside. Watching yesterdays golf from Crans sur Sierre in Switzerland where it knows how to snow :smile:
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Quick rain band has now exited the region, should be a good roller coming into Wellington soon.
Crop showers inbehind with the coldest of the air, not too many there at the moment but they do look intense.
So maybe some hail/sleet snow showers to near sea level tonight for awhile, will be very coastal though.
Wind is now more W-SW and up to 5C.
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matty25nz
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Jason

Are you saying maybe hail/sleet showers tonight for canterbury or wellington?? Nothing much happened in town
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Ashley Forest appearing with snow on :D :D
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hail showers at sea level now.
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matty25nz wrote:Jason

Are you saying maybe hail/sleet showers tonight for canterbury or wellington?? Nothing much happened in town
Canterbury is where i meant yeah.

Clearance to the South now and the temperature has dropped back down again to 4.1C, 4.6mm in the rain gauge so far.
Luke where did u just get a hail shower?
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Near the avon between bexley and New brighton. got some pics. One point looked like light wet snow, but then went hail again. Small hail non stop for around 10mins now. some settled
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lucky luke ! Im in Mairehau and all we have had is squally showers
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No hail in central Chch, but sleety looking rain at times.
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Short graupel shower at my place just now... Chilly!
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Lasted 10mins. Only some settled...
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Much heavier hail now! Although cant get pics, about to have tea
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matty25nz
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small hail and sleet shower just going through Mairehau
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:rolleyes: That so called blast was pathetic, one mil of rain/hail and now calm
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wasn't a well defined gustfront from my vantage point this morning
but anyway
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Missed that nice developed Hail/grapel shower here only caught the edge with a few brief tiny stones, some nice towering CU though i was waiting for rumble of thunder too.
Looks be another CB sitting to the south now on the horizon, the direction has changed with those showers coming in more S-SW than W-SW.
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A Thunderstorm for Wellington, if it was over Ak or Chch there would have been half a dozen reports on the forum by now. ;-)
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OK... some thunder and lightning, heavy rain in Lower Hutt, lots of smallish hail in Karori, a bit of wind, a lot colder...

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Looks like the SW change is arriving in Auckland now, showers have just arrived here, and the wind at the airport is SW 48kph gusting 65kph. No strong winds here yet (still Westerly)
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Just had a very heavy hail shower here, some stones up to 5mm in diamter took a few pics will post later.
I was waiting for a flash and rumble it was that heavy.
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Richard wrote::rolleyes: That so called blast was pathetic, one mil of rain/hail and now calm
I agree.
I fell asleep when the change arrived. Good rain though with 5.3mm from it. Have't measured the rain-gauge since the last shower passed over around 6:30pm. No snow, no hail no graupal, just rain showers from the passing clouds.
Winds West or WSW here but more Southerly when I was in town this afternoon..

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Richard wrote:But really polar outbreaks have not been been locked around Antarctica over winter,wasnt it back in late june/early July that South America received one of the nastiest snows falls for many years that even saw the cold air mass cross the equator??
http://www.weatherforum.org.nz/phpBB3/v ... f=9&t=4118

Late July.

"Locked around Antarctica"

Myth. I despair when scientific professionals and the media combine to distort the facts like this.
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Hails very loud on the roof now :), around 5 degrees.
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Just had a heavy sleet shower, almost a snow shower. Will be the last by the looks of it on radar
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Just had a heavy sleet shower, almost a snow shower. Will be the last by the looks of it on radar
Interesting. Nothing of that sort here. Snow at Waddington and sleety showers around ChCh.
Nothing in between?


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