Good potential for snow

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 30/06/2003 16:17

4.10pm Overcast skies drizzle/light rain temperature 7.9 with a souutherly wind.
Note the heavy snow warning for Canterbury that has been issued

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Cheers.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Mon 30/06/2003 18:39

temps are still dropping and it has been raining since 8:30am.
Snow has settle down ato around 500m i noticed as a come home throught the cromwell gorge.

Temp now 3.1 and still light rain falling.

The ski feilds must have got aleast 10-20cm by now.

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Mon 30/06/2003 19:49

temp now 1.9 degrees c and still raining

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 30/06/2003 20:15

Surprise its started to rain here but at least its not as cold as Alex here

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Mon 30/06/2003 21:19

From http://www.nzski.com

FRESH SNOW FALLS ON QUEENSTOWN'S MOUNTAINS

Fresh snow has fallen on Coronet Peak & The Remarkables today (June 30)! As of 4pm 20cm had accumulated at the Coronet Peak base lodge level, and 16cm has fallen at The Remarkables between 9am-4pm.

Good news for snow lovers..

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Tue 01/07/2003 08:35

Latest update on snow in Otago

Ski Area Last Updated Status Access Ave Snow

Depth Last Snow-fall Weather Conditions

Treble Cone Tue, 15cm 0Â°C

Cardrona Tue, 20cm -8Â°C

Coronet Peak Tue, 20cm -1Â°C

The Remarkables Tue, 30cm -6Â°C

The sky is clearing with snow right down to the almost the bottom of the valley, looks awsome..

It has settled to around 300m in Inland Otago.

Temp 0.2 degrees in Alexandra, snowed late last night but didn't settle.

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Tue 01/07/2003 09:11

In Invercargill this morning temps were 2 degrees at obs. Got down to 1 degree in the early hours. Sleet and hail between 0400 -0600. Lots of Cb's around this morning.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 01/07/2003 09:46

Still overcast in central Christchurch with some light rain and about 5C. The Port Hills are covered in thick cloud.

Ben
Christchurch

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Tue 01/07/2003 12:02

Cold and Overcast in Ashburton,4.3 degrees.
14mm of rain overnight,snow fell to 500m in Mid Canterbury with Mt Hutt receiving 20cm.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Tue 01/07/2003 12:41

Rain and sleet now falling as the second front seems to be coming through.Rain is developing on the 12.00pm radar.
Cheers.

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Tue 01/07/2003 14:07

Heavy snow shower at 1230 for 15 minutes,starting to settle temp went from 4.5. degrees to 2 in 15 mins. Westerly freshened.Cleared again to fine by 1pm.

Cheers

Chris

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 01/07/2003 14:50

Sounds Hideous weather in Invercargill by the type of weather Chris.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 01/07/2003 16:17

Midday sounding from Invercargill has the freezing level at 946hpa which correlates to about 400m. In cb showers the freezing level could drop to near ground level. But cb tops no higher than about 3500m today according to the sounding.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 01/07/2003 17:44

[[quote]Sounds Hideous weather in Invercargill by the type of weather

Hideous weather. I love it..

Have the folks at MetService come across this term yet ???????

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Tue 01/07/2003 19:54

Looks like a weak warm front moving over Southland this evening.
(layered cloud). This in theory should bring a small lift in temperature ahead of the next cold front due in a day or two.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Wed 02/07/2003 07:02

It warmed up over Southland last night, freezing level up at 900m midnight. That was not expected by Met Service. Goes to show how fical this cold outbreak is.

Campbell Island is reporting an air temperature this morning of minus 2C with WSW winds of 32kts. How cold is that? Anyway that particularly cold air is currently not headed for the SI but away to the east.

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Wed 02/07/2003 09:33

Went out to do the morning obs and temp felt alot warmer from the 2 degrees and 20 kt westerly at midnight. Temp was 7 degrees at 0900. Still occasional Cb showers of small hail mixed in with the rain. After yesterday quite surprised to see my max for the 24 hours was in the wee small hours when the temp got to 9 degrees .Now blowing westerly of 20-25 kts.Chill factor is tolerable though.As Steven stated a weak warm front must have popped through.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Wed 02/07/2003 21:46

There was no warm front passing over Christchurch this morning - but another hard frost instead. Apparently there was a light dusting of snow on the Port Hills from yesterday afternoon's front. TV1 weather showed it tonight - I noticed the hills had a lightish tinge to them once the weather had eased late yesterday afternoon, but the snow cover must've been too thin to be obvious from the city centre.

Ben
Christchurch

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Wed 02/07/2003 22:19

Lovely fine day here ChCh today. A good frost this morning but only down to minus 3.8 in the screen this morning. There were traces of frost in sheltered areas up to midday.

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 02/07/2003 23:11

John Send some up here please-We need a good high over us and a broad low pressure stationary over the Kermadacs