End of week bitterly cold outbreak
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The urban heat island effect seems to be showing itself here in central Chch, with the snow taking longer to settle than in the outer parts of the city. There's now a thick coating on cars and garage roofs near where I live, but only a little on lawns, and the roads are still clear.
BTW the snow looked spectacular at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island (as seen as Nightline). A far cry from the mild conditions when I was there just a month ago.
BTW the snow looked spectacular at Halfmoon Bay, Stewart Island (as seen as Nightline). A far cry from the mild conditions when I was there just a month ago.
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Looks like that front has settled into the Christchurch area with potential for quite a fall, more particularly on hill suburbs. The snow must be really accumulating out on Banks Peninsula.
Odd heavy shower here now in Auckland.
Re the roads over the central NI tomorrow. I would expect the worst Brian. Will be good falls of snow south of Toupo.
Odd heavy shower here now in Auckland.
Re the roads over the central NI tomorrow. I would expect the worst Brian. Will be good falls of snow south of Toupo.
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Lucky buggers!
[quote]Been snowing thickly since about 8.45PM in central Chch (lightly before that) and settling, though not yet on the roads and footpaths.[quote/]
Snowing thickly Ben (not fair!!), here in Southshore (right next to the beach) there is no snow setteling at all. A little bit fell here at sea level about 5:30pm but apart from that I've seen nothing! In town of course and at School I saw quit a bit of snow fall earlier on but nothing had settled by that time. The most snow I've seen today is when my Dad turned the windscreen wipers on when we left from his work and the snow that was on his windscreen packed up into enough perhaps to make a small snowball.
I'm off to bed, perhaps some more will fall tomorrow?
Cheers
Aaron Wilkinson
[quote]Been snowing thickly since about 8.45PM in central Chch (lightly before that) and settling, though not yet on the roads and footpaths.[quote/]
Snowing thickly Ben (not fair!!), here in Southshore (right next to the beach) there is no snow setteling at all. A little bit fell here at sea level about 5:30pm but apart from that I've seen nothing! In town of course and at School I saw quit a bit of snow fall earlier on but nothing had settled by that time. The most snow I've seen today is when my Dad turned the windscreen wipers on when we left from his work and the snow that was on his windscreen packed up into enough perhaps to make a small snowball.
I'm off to bed, perhaps some more will fall tomorrow?
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Aaron Wilkinson
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21 cm?!
hail here and 100's of lighning counts overnight ( and my over active weather warning system sent out 130 emails ivernight ), and still the worst of the hail showers still to ome...
looks like the central NI will cop it all right from the latest sat pic,,,,,and it looks to be still snowing perhaps in canterbury and further north?
wow!
21 cm?!
hail here and 100's of lighning counts overnight ( and my over active weather warning system sent out 130 emails ivernight ), and still the worst of the hail showers still to ome...
looks like the central NI will cop it all right from the latest sat pic,,,,,and it looks to be still snowing perhaps in canterbury and further north?
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We had the first of the cb's go though last night at 11pm with plenty of thunder and a bright light show. Mostly heavy rain with a little hail.
Out to the west and north west I can see some big glaciated cb's that are part of the next wave. Wil be intersting to see if these will be as active as the first.
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Out to the west and north west I can see some big glaciated cb's that are part of the next wave. Wil be intersting to see if these will be as active as the first.
G
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Just a few light snow showers in Amberley, barely enough snow on the ground to scrape together. Reports of 16cm at Wakanui east of Ashburton tie in with Deano's obs, and 8cm in Greta Valley, North Canterbury.
Looks like the heaviest falls were south of Chch, rather similar to last year's event. I have yet to see any reports from Banks Peninsula, or further north in Marlborough or Wellington.
Looks like the heaviest falls were south of Chch, rather similar to last year's event. I have yet to see any reports from Banks Peninsula, or further north in Marlborough or Wellington.
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In the last 12 hours we had some more light snow and showers of ice pellets through the night to about 3pm . After that things froze. Icm of frozen snow and ice outside this morning. Everything white,cars crunching up the road and sliding into the intersections. Temp 0.3 at obs. Stll haven't had any wind from the south out of this event. Things appear to be clearing with most cloud and shower activity to the east now.
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Looks as though the "BLAST" is all over.
From noon, increasing fine periods with the occasional brief miniature small hair shower. Some small Cb glaciated towers (hope Aaron is looking). Temp here at 1pm - 3C in the sun, too warm for any more snow or snow related weather. Should be a minus 5C frost here tonight!
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From noon, increasing fine periods with the occasional brief miniature small hair shower. Some small Cb glaciated towers (hope Aaron is looking). Temp here at 1pm - 3C in the sun, too warm for any more snow or snow related weather. Should be a minus 5C frost here tonight!
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