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Kezza · Unread post by **Kezza** » Mon 05/06/2006 19:33

0.6 deg... hrm, if this keeps up I'll have to go out and start the work van and leave it running so that I can get to work in the morning!

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Mon 05/06/2006 19:59

It was a bust on the central Pateau today. Made it up to the summit of the desert road at about 10.30am in anticipation of a white out and road closure. Within 20 minutes I could see the line of blue sky arriving and never saw any snow falling. There had been some snow on the desert road earlier, but nowhere near enough to close it.

Mount Ruapehu only saw snow down to about 1700m in any quantity and even then it was sparse.

Only real excitement of the day was watching 2 fire & 1 police vehicle slip sliding on the ice trying to get up to Turoa.

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 05/06/2006 20:37

Dropped to near zero earlier, now back up to +3.5 with some breeze sprung up. Looks like Aaron is on to it afer all...

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Mon 05/06/2006 20:43

TonyT wrote:Dropped to near zero earlier, now back up to +3.5 with some breeze sprung up. Looks like Aaron is on to it afer all...

Still in the negatives down here. HAH! Take that, Aaron!

tgsnoopy · Unread post by **tgsnoopy** » Mon 05/06/2006 20:44

Desert Road:

Turoa access gate at 13km:

Chateau:

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Mon 05/06/2006 20:47

TonyT wrote:Dropped to near zero earlier, now back up to +3.5 with some breeze sprung up. Looks like Aaron is on to it afer all...

Thought that temperture was for Canterbury?? so that is has already gone below 0C it would then be an inaccurate forecast. I think fencepost need to have coastal and inland forcasting!!

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Mon 05/06/2006 21:56

A bit harsh Steve, does a forecast temperature have to be spot on or be "inaccurate"? How about a bit of lee-way?

03Stormchaser · Unread post by **03Stormchaser** » Tue 06/06/2006 08:00

TonyT wrote:A bit harsh Steve, does a forecast temperature have to be spot on or be "inaccurate"? How about a bit of lee-way?

Wasnt ment to sound harsh!!

Castle Hill is at -5C this morning!!
ChCh got down to -1.5C overnight.

TonyT · Unread post by **TonyT** » Tue 06/06/2006 08:22

Our minimum was the zero referred to earlier, around 7pm, temp stayed around +4 all night with a 8-10 knot westerly breeze all night (and now).

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Tue 06/06/2006 10:48

Low in Omarama was -2.6Â°C at 08:59 and Lake Ohau was -2.7Â°C at 09:04, so nothing amazing. A minor frost under some very high Cirrus. Beautiful day.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 06/06/2006 12:59

COLD in the great basin today, currently sitting on 9c.

I got down to -1c, farms around Cambridge got down to around -3 to -3.8c

The golden southeaster's are back!

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 06/06/2006 15:08

Similar on Banks Peninsula - got frosty during the night, but some cloud moved in later and was above freezing by dawn.

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Tue 06/06/2006 16:39

Great satellite picture:

http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Tue 06/06/2006 16:53

RWood wrote:Great satellite picture:

http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/

Hey, I can see my house!

So okay, my mountain anyway...

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Tue 06/06/2006 17:31

May see another low just like the one we had, this time next week.

Jack sure will be back tonight doing his thing! Nose and ears starting to suffer I must admit.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 06/06/2006 18:14

Foggy Hamilton wrote:May see another low just like the one we had, this time next week.

Yes, thats the one I mentioned on my other posting which should see a colder snap over NZ if the anticyclone behind it hangs in there

JohnGaul
NZTS

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Wed 07/06/2006 15:50

Much milder as of right now - lovely day here, sat. image very similar to yesterday afternoon's apart from the addition of some cloud on the West Coast and scattered stuff in the west from Taranaki north (including the Michael zone?- can't really tell)