Severe Cold Outbreak over NZ 18th-21st

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:11

Manukau heads observer wrote:gary, you are too far away from the action, which is on the canterbury plains area, where the low is , at the moment

Well I think it's disgraceful.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:15

Power is out in Rolleston, lucky buggers!!

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:21

Snow showers in Invercargill . Temp 2 degrres , Stherly 10 kts.

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:21

Update: Road East of Kirwee is prety bad, west of Kirwee its alot lighter till you hit porters.

Looks like worst of snow is confinedmore to the coast at low levels.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:23

About 2cm this morning around the property (hope my peas dont mind it). More to come I believe? Chch sounds like it's having a doozy.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:24

About 2cm around the property this morning, with more to come? Chch sounds like it's getting a doozy...

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:32

Fujita Phil wrote:About 2cm around the property this morning, with more to come? Chch sounds like it's getting a doozy...

"The sun is out,
the sky is blue,
ha ha ha,
the joke's on you!"

Welcome to the Mackenzie Country...

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:37

We're having a thunderstorm down here now with snow , most odd

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:39

Chris Raine wrote:We're having a thunderstorm down here now with snow , most odd

I blame Don Brash.

ScottyD · Unread post by **ScottyD** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:44

are there any good webcams down that way to view the action?

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:47

6cm+ round the garden now with a couple of cm settled on roads and pavements. The snow is very "sticky" so it's building up on branches, aerials, etc. Not surprised power is out in so many places even Akaroa now:

http://www.oriongroup.co.nz/Default.htm ... rs/Outages

Have set up a temporary garden webcam here:

http://www.templeton.gen.nz/webcam2/

... exciting isn't it

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 09:59

Chris Raine wrote:We're having a thunderstorm down here now with snow , most odd

I blame Don Brash.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:01

Steven Graham wrote:6cm+ round the garden now with a couple of cm settled on roads and pavements. The snow is very "sticky" so it's building up on branches, aerials, etc. Not surprised power is out in so many places even Akaroa now:

http://www.oriongroup.co.nz/Default.htm ... rs/Outages

Have set up a temporary garden webcam here:

http://www.templeton.gen.nz/webcam2/

... exciting isn't it

I hate you most of all.

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:11

And here you can see that even Cathedral Square gets more snow than Omarama

http://cam.yobbo.co.nz/web/index.html

(you need to "login" to get it to work !!!)

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:13

wow that snow has tripped out so many lines! i guess it sticks to the insulators?

what kind of camera is that Steven? love the images...

wxgirl · Unread post by **wxgirl** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:13

Been for a drive around the city ... about 5cm in Beckenham near the hills ... here is my pretty picture ...

Well done for sticking your neck out Tony ... I got a fright when I came back from Aussie on Wed and saw the GFS weather map for today!

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:18

small hail in Amberley overnight, quite intense at one point. Sleet turned to snow around 9am and snowing hard now.

You wont hear much from me for the rest of the day as I am trying to get into Chch to take my son to a hospital appointment for his on-going treatment. We were scheduled to go in this evening but have decided to try to make it now, as it looks like it will be impossible to get in from mid afternoon. I should be able to catch up on forum news froma hospital computer tonight.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:18

wxgirl wrote:Been for a drive around the city ... about 5cm in Beckenham near the hills ... here is my pretty picture ...

Well done for sticking your neck out Tony ... I got a fright when I came back from Aussie on Wed and saw the GFS weather map for today!

[Gary sprints breathlessly into the chat room...] Toni?! Did somebody mention...oh..."TonY"...never mind...

Good to see you back wxgirl! We were talking about you yesterday.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:19

TonyT wrote:small hail in Amberley overnight, quite intense at one point. Sleet turned to snow around 9am and snowing hard now.

You wont hear much from me for the rest of the day as I am trying to get into Chch to take my son to a hospital appointment for his on-going treatment. We were scheduled to go in this evening but have decided to try to make it now, as it looks like it will be impossible to get in from mid afternoon. I should be able to catch up on forum news froma hospital computer tonight.

Well, it's not like you didn't have plenty of warning. You really ought to pay more attention to the weather.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:24

Thick snow continuing to bucket down in central Chch - starting to look at least as bad as August last year; August 1992 if it continues at this intensity for too much longer. However, I can't imagine it getting as bad as 92 for the area as a whole - then heavy snow fell for 3 or 4 days continuously at only slightly higher altitudes (200-300m), whereas this storm is only expected to last about 24 hours at the most.

Dean. · Unread post by **Dean.** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:25

Great stuff.......more pics please

Skywatcher · Unread post by **Skywatcher** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:44

ricky wrote:wow that snow has tripped out so many lines! i guess it sticks to the insulators?

what kind of camera is that Steven? love the images...

More likely it's branches breaking off under the weight of snow and taking the lines with them. That's what happened here in early June 2002 when the power was out for a few hours.

Camera is a 2nd hand Powershot G2 connected using PSRemote software and a webcam app I've written to switch exposure mode, etc, based on time of day. I'll eventually replace the current weather camera with it and change it to upload a higher res image (it's a 4Mp camera).

Snow isn't so heavy now and the temp has risen slightly in a more W'ly wind.

wxgirl · Unread post by **wxgirl** » Mon 19/09/2005 10:45

just one more ... still snowing heavily in hill end of Colombo St ...

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Mon 19/09/2005 11:06

Snowing and settling well here roads whitning up rather well few idoits trying thier driving skills but otherwiase power still good here and still snowing as i type
I wonder if it will get heavier tonight as it gets colder anyone?.
Been out there filming and taking more photo's wow is this a dream of what

most snow iv'e viewed in all my years of weather.
Cheers
JASON.

spike_01 · Unread post by **spike_01** » Mon 19/09/2005 11:23

Pics can be found in various threads here...

http://www.trademe.co.nz/structure/mess ... sp?topic=5