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Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 18:30
by snowchaser01
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 18:23
Razor wrote: ↑Wed 17/06/2020 11:19
I doubt NZTA will let you through under current policy
Yes saw the meeting at Castle Hill on the TV One news this evening and decided to cancel our trip.
I Was in that story far too many times.. surprised everyone's TV screens didn't shatter lol
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 18:56
by snowchaser01
Metservice data has updated... Still picking 50mm for Christchurch, and much much more slightly inland.
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 19:04
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 18:30
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 18:23
Yes saw the meeting at Castle Hill on the TV One news this evening and decided to cancel our trip.
I Was in that story far too many times.. surprised everyone's TV screens didn't shatter lol
Were you the "Shouty Man"?
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 19:10
by snowchaser01
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 19:04
snowchaser01 wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 18:30
I Was in that story far too many times.. surprised everyone's TV screens didn't shatter lol
Were you the "Shouty Man"?
HAHA nope, people were very angry. I just sat against the wall very amused at the High country folk completely owning the NZTA!!
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 19:19
by Chris W
Don't understand not allowing chains, they're perfectly good for snowy conditions.
Just ducked my head out of the motel window, looks filthy in the distance over the town centre with drifting rain but not torrential.
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 19:23
by snowchaser01
Chris W wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 19:19
Don't understand not allowing chains, they're perfectly good for snowy conditions.
Just ducked my head out of the motel window, looks filthy in the distance over the town centre with drifting rain but not torrential.
Word is that NZTA are announcing changes tomorrow including the reintroduction of chains
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 21:05
by snowchaser01
Looks like coastal north Canterbury is the hit zone overnight and tomorrow for heavy rain... MS latest warning don't mention down here at all. Maybe some snow for the top of the inland road at a push on sunrise.
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 21:22
by Chris W
It's monsooning down now, can't be good driving conditions along the coast.
Edit - car was reading 6C at 5pm in town (Kaikoura again).
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 21:23
by tgsnoopy
WTH! Really, bureaucracy gone power crazy. Absolutely absurd. I realise the young idiots will give it a go and get in trouble. But I say "Let Darwin sort the Idiots out." Every year it gets worse. I so want to slap the decision makers.
Edited cause someone is a pansy and wasn't prepared to ask me nicely to edited it myself, had to go through a moderator.
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Thu 18/06/2020 21:48
by NZ Thunderstorm Soc
tgsnoopy wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 21:23
WTF! Really, bureaucracy gone power crazy. Absolutely absurd. I realise the young idiots will give it a go and get in trouble. But I say "Let Darwin sort the F***wits out." Every year it gets worse. I so want to slap the decision makers.
You sound like my brother-inlaw on issues like this<3
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 10:12
by Razor
Bradley wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 07:48
Razor wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 07:24
It's actually ramped up. Over 100mm now
It will be corrected at some point today, it needs a human touch lol
So...the Metservice failed to apply that "human touch" and let misinformation stay online until as late as when I went to bed last night- we have recieved only few mm
What makes my blood boil is that this information gets into the discussion as 'fact' and authorities start putting press releases out suggested flooding overnight, and therefore wasting everyones resources and time on it. Pretty darn unprofessional
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 10:19
by Bradley
Razor wrote: ↑Fri 19/06/2020 10:12
Bradley wrote: ↑Thu 18/06/2020 07:48
It will be corrected at some point today, it needs a human touch lol
So...the Metservice failed to apply that "human touch" and let misinformation stay online until as late as when I went to bed last night- we have recieved only few mm
What makes my blood boil is that this information gets into the discussion as 'fact' and authorities start putting press releases out suggested flooding overnight, and therefore wasting everyones resources and time on it. Pretty darn unprofessional
Yes you could certainly make a case that Metservice dropped the ball yesterday on the data not being updated, not good enough and although they were correct not to put out any heavy rain watches for Christchurch the point is alot of people look at that 48 hour guidance as an actual forecast and base their plans around it...
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 10:30
by Richard
Certainly turned into a non event, didn't even break the 20mm mark, not that we really needed more than that really.
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 12:18
by snowchaser01
I wonder if the 150mm that CWU predicted will happen...
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 13:05
by Chris W
Not likely, it stayed heavy overnight but eased off this morning. Kaikõura may struggle into that 80-110mm range today but only just. Edit - maybe not even that, we're on about 50-55mm so far and only tipped for another 18mm today, it has virtually stopped now.
Cloud base is about 0m asl looking outside!
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Fri 19/06/2020 20:31
by Dean.
45mm for the event here
Re: Possible Snow event North Canterbury 17-19th June
Posted: Sat 20/06/2020 12:07
by melja
Just 14.7mm in Rangiora
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