Brief icy flick

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 27/08/2005 09:54

Andy wrote:No not online Gary.

But i do have a sceened transmiter 1.2 or 1.4 (i can't remember) over grass.

Temp i recorded was 0.4 degrees min.

Looks like that front pounced on your side of the range but was shunted west to the divide and mostly missed us on this side.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 27/08/2005 10:48

Rain arrived in central Chch sometime between about 11 and midnight, showers (mostly light) continuing up to now. I notice little bright blobs to the southwest (Rakaia area) on 9AM radar - hail showers? I guess there's a dusting of snow on the higher peninsula hills.
BTW Lower Hutt must've had some quite heavy rain - 5mm in the hour prior to 9AM this morning.[/quote]

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sat 27/08/2005 11:04

tich wrote:Rain arrived in central Chch sometime between about 11 and midnight, showers (mostly light) continuing up to now. I notice little bright blobs to the southwest (Rakaia area) on 9AM radar - hail showers? I guess there's a dusting of snow on the higher peninsula hills.
BTW Lower Hutt must've had some quite heavy rain - 5mm in the hour prior to 9AM this morning.

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I guess the hills are still clouded in and you can't see them? I'd be interested to know if you got much snow. It seems as if CHCH/Canty has received more snow this year than we have!

Andy · Unread post by **Andy** » Sat 27/08/2005 11:19

Under bright sun with plenty of spring warmth, so the temperature is climbing should get to the mid teens.

Temp now 10.8

Expecting a frost tonight perhaps in the -3 region.

Plenty of frosts fighting to be done this season, stone fruit varieties are flowering now, two weeks ahead of average.

Yesterday the range was from â€“2.4 to 20.5 degrees

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 27/08/2005 11:41

I guess the hills are still clouded in and you can't see them? I'd be interested to know if you got much snow. It seems as if CHCH/Canty has received more snow this year than we have!

Mt Herbert and other BP hills can be seen from parts of Chch, but not the central city. And yes the clouds haven't cleared yet; we clould easily get a few more showers (looks dark to the west atm) before it clears. (slower clearance that earlier forecast) Chch temps have been as low as about 4-5C during overnight and evening showers, so a dusting on the peninsula is likely, though not heavy.

Chch and other coastal parts of Canty are much more exposed to precipitation in very cold southerly or southwesterly outbreaks than the inland high country. A pity for skiers that the coastal hills aren't any higher. But inland areas can get more snow from southeasterly and warm advection events, though not many have occurred this winter.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Sat 27/08/2005 12:08

Just had a heavy but brief shower of small hail here. Should show up on the noon radar.

Webcams at Castle Hill and Hanmer Springs show a dusting of snow on the Torlesse Range and Leslie Hills overnight.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:03

Snow on the hills here but well above 500m. Now I can only see a couple of white 4WD tracks right at the top of Flagstaff. If you look at the NOAA sat image you can see the snow in eastern Otago appearing in blue.

Got down to 0.3C. Now blue dome 8C. Thermal undies for the rugby me thinks

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:16

some cu popping up around christchurch, not thundery or anything though

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:18

springlike here with sun even the nasty SW has died away during the morning

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:35

Partly cloudy with fair-weather cumulus building, 16c light southeasterly

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:39

**off topic
But Geoff Mackley has been in Europe, and has some nice images of the recent flooding.

http://www.rambocam.com/

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 27/08/2005 13:47

03 Stormchaser wrote:some cu popping up around christchurch, not thundery or anything though

Yes I noticed that too coming back from The Shed in Pages Road.
Nice Cu line around to the back of the Port Hills.
I would of taken more interest if it was about 990hPa
Barometer too high for anything to happen - "1030hPa scenario" I call it.

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sat 27/08/2005 13:56

Very stable across NZ today. Any showers will be from low topped cloud.

Geoff Mackley gets the good jobs.

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Sat 27/08/2005 14:44

Looks like typical Hill magnet stuff again today

in other words showers seem to move in south of Christchurch and move towards plains only rain we got was a small amount last night at midnight just enough to wet ground no showers as of yet today here.
But was In hornby very wet there heavy showers and yes some ok clouds around

but u will notice they reach a certain height then break up.
Cheers
JASON.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 27/08/2005 16:01

Cool lower flow has only reached New Plymouth to East Cape
up to 17c and perfect, most cloud has cleared

Boy that sun is HOT!

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Sat 27/08/2005 17:57

Foggy Hamilton wrote:Cool lower flow has only reached New Plymouth to East Cape
up to 17c and perfect, most cloud has cleared

Boy that sun is HOT!

Coldish today here but skies clear from mid-afternoon, still a chance of sun record if next 4 days are fine. With what is probably the last rain of the month W'gton city now has 30mm (record low is 26). Expect temps to be about +1.1/1.3.

Manukau heads obs · Sat 27/08/2005 18:39

36mm here, will be one of the driest augusts on record for auckland

just checked back, and it will be the driest august since records began here (1957)
(going by the fact not much more rain to come now for the rest of august)
other years where august has been less rain than normal, september and october has been wetter than normal

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 27/08/2005 19:01

Cool lower flow has only reached New Plymouth to East Cape
up to 17c and perfect, most cloud has cleared

Boy that sun is HOT!

Tokoroa apparently got up to 19C today - cold southerly change certainly hadn't reached there. But the temps like that will drop alot tonight if the air is still and the skies clear = frost. Chch should get a frost tonight as well.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 28/08/2005 00:04

Manukau heads observer wrote:36mm here, will be one of the driest augusts on record for auckland

It's safe to say 94.8mm will be our August rainfall, at the airport unofficially "based on incomplete data"

Week of wall to wall sunshine in most regions coming up

Warm to start September '05 on the 1st

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 28/08/2005 07:49

Foggy Hamilton wrote:It's safe to say 94.8mm will be our August rainfall, at the airport unofficially "based on incomplete data"

Hey Foggy, what happened to the rest of their data?

Week of wall to wall sunshine in most regions coming up

Since we didn't actually get a winter this year, I think we're owed a double ration of summer!

Manukau heads obs · Sun 28/08/2005 09:21

i see grey lyn, auckland, same as me, 37mm for august
see:
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tmcgav ... ather.html
( and click on the grey lyn link )
anyone know what aucklands driest august was?

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Sun 28/08/2005 09:54

Brief icy flick did'nt reach Auckland, a low of 10C over night.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 28/08/2005 10:47

anyone know what aucklands driest august was?

I can't give the year but the driest August in Albert Park in central Auckland was 35mm. Rainfall records there date back to 1853.

This August though looks to be a record breaker for many parts of Auckland.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sun 28/08/2005 11:30

In conclusion the cold snap was pretty brief and insignificant, except in that it followed a very mild spell. Just a dusting of snow on some southern and eastern South Island hills, and a few hail showers. Seems like the front and cold change fizzled out as it reached the central North Island - Wellington region got some cold rain, but I don't think any snow fell on the Desert Road, and Tokoroa's 19C max isn't what you get in a cold southerly in August, even a weak one.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 28/08/2005 12:29

Looked it up and says 1914 with 29.5mm.1965 was the wettest 324.1