Cold weather event 17th to 20th August

[Ice Maiden]

Heres one for those of us a little South of Christchurch.
Courtousy of the met service.

HEAVY SNOW WARNING
COASTAL HILLS AND RANGES OF EASTERN OTAGO INCLUDING HIGHER PARTS OF DUNEDIN: In the 30 hours from midnight Sunday through to 6am Tuesday, 15 to 20cm of snow could accumulate down to 300 metres with the bulk of it on Monday morning between 3am and 9am. Lighter accumulations expected down to 100 metres and snow may fall to sea level briefly.

Woo Hoo, fingers crossed, hoping for a "snow day" Darn I'm day off tomorrow anyway.

Light rain at present.

[gopolks]

What are they saying for Christchurch? whats the snow level for banks peninsula or the port hills?

[frosty]

Heres something to read: Notice "port hills" have been added in with BP now and "sea level" features in it! Updated 8.28pm

HEAVY SNOW WARNING
BANKS PENINSULA AND PORT HILLS : In the 33 hours from midnight Sunday through to 9am Tuesday, 15 to 20cm of snow could accumulate down to 300 metres with the bulk of it between 3pm and 9pm on Monday. Lighter accumulations expected down to 100 metres and snow may fall to sea level briefly

heres the latest

[melja]

What are they saying for Christchurch? whats the snow level for banks peninsula or the port hills?

Does your computer not have access to the metservice site

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Thanks Frosty. there ya go golpolks

Definately snow on the hills and brief falls to sea level so thats us. SO looking like for CHCH = sleety falls with snow showers for a time tomorrow. Banks peninsular is as high as 600m-700m i think and port hills 300m-400? I might be wrong. I know halswell is 30m above sea level.

[Ice Maiden]

The colder air is creeping in, I see its been snowing in Gore within the last hour from the weather station, wheres tidd66 for an update when you need him!

[gopolks]

Heres something to read: Notice "port hills" have been added in with BP now and "sea level" features in it! Updated 8.28pm

HEAVY SNOW WARNING
BANKS PENINSULA AND PORT HILLS : In the 33 hours from midnight Sunday through to 9am Tuesday, 15 to 20cm of snow could accumulate down to 300 metres with the bulk of it between 3pm and 9pm on Monday. Lighter accumulations expected down to 100 metres and snow may fall to sea level briefly

heres the latest

Hey, I like the sound of that.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

heavy rain shower atm with sleet in the mix

[carrot]

Surely we would have to get something; 15cm to 300m must equal some significant settling at sea level.
Back to light rain here

[Fujita Phil]

You can finally see the surge racing up from below on the BOM sat. Looks like I might wake to a bit of white stuff

[gopolks]

What are they saying for Christchurch? whats the snow level for banks peninsula or the port hills?

Does your computer not have access to the metservice site

Yeah it does, but they have so many different weather sections it does my wee brain in, this site is better.

[tidd66]

No Snow in Gore yet sitting on Zero and a few spots of rain out there.

[Lawrence]

Had rain here in Rolleston.Temprature was heading down but a slight heating effect is showing at the moment up from 3.8 to 4.0c in the last few minutes and now heading down again.Baro on 1001mb and wind Southerly 5.8kph average.

[mikestormchaser]

Thanks Frosty. there ya go golpolks

Definately snow on the hills and brief falls to sea level so thats us. SO looking like for CHCH = sleety falls with snow showers for a time tomorrow. Banks peninsular is as high as 600m-700m i think and port hills 300m-400? I might be wrong. I know halswell is 30m above sea level.

BP is 920 is the highest point witch is mt herbert as they call it. and i think top suger loaf " port hills" is about 496

[Storm Struck]

Just had our first breif but decent shower of tonight so far with some heavy rain and abit of sleet.
Still the odd isolated heavy shower out there on the latest radars.
It will be interesting to see whether tomorrow afternoon the showers string together and combine enough to give prolongued showers enough for some reasonable accumulations if it falls as snow .
Cheers
Jason.

[gopolks]

So we should see snow about half way down the port hills!

[mikestormchaser]

no gopolks u will see snow lower then half way down the port hills.

[Chris Raine]

1.5 degrees , calm and fine in Thornbury Southland ...waiting...

[carrot]

Looks like some rain coming soon according to rain radar, at 3.4 still dropping

[carrot]

Metservice updated chch forecast to:

Showers, with sleet and snow by midday. Southerlies.

And dueedin:

Sleety showers, snow to low levels. Southerlies.

[Chris Raine]

Light Showers now and two degrees , still calm

[mikestormchaser]

currently sitting on 2.1C here lets just round that down to 2 cloudy skies but no rain as of yet, yeah i noticed MS has changed there forecast leys hope it does exactly that now! amen to the gods

[Ice Maiden]

Heavy rain lashing the windows woke the household about an hour ago, 3.9C too warm for snow yet, there maybe snow in the higher suburbs.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Metservice now saying snow to 200m for Canterbury in their brief forecast why do they have to go spoil the party.

[frosty]

roll on midday