I thought your forecast was for snow down to 200m?TonyT wrote:I only got the temperature wrong, everything else was spot on!03Stormchaser wrote: To be honest metservice and blueskies missed it, with blueskies being the better of the two in there forecasts, the winner today goes to Jason!!
. Second day of snow after the rain he got on sunday from the NW. Grader hasnt been up his way yet so road is closed.
I said 500m, dropping to 200m at night. Like I said, everything else fell into place nicely, but I was about 6 degrees too warm with the temperature!03Stormchaser wrote:I thought your forecast was for snow down to 200m?
I'd tell you what the temp was in Omarama right now except the DSL router at the airport has crapped out and so the station can't upload its data to the website. Bloody power spikes.JP wrote:Beautiful clear sky out in chch tonight. The bad thing is it must be almost negative air temp already its bitterly cold.
As for the frost, my driveway is already like an ice rink and its only 7pm, most of the snow on the lawn is very hard already..
Is 200m classed as sea level?? Not try to pick a fight, just confusedTonyT wrote:I said 500m, dropping to 200m at night. Like I said, everything else fell into place nicely, but I was about 6 degrees too warm with the temperature!03Stormchaser wrote:I thought your forecast was for snow down to 200m?
Evening JP welcome to the forum from the other side of the Tasman.JP wrote:Beautiful clear sky out in chch tonight. The bad thing is it must be almost negative air temp already its bitterly cold.
As for the frost, my driveway is already like an ice rink and its only 7pm, most of the snow on the lawn is very hard already..
Ahem...not to be picky or anything, but 1-2cm was forecast for the Lindis Pass. And even then it sounded as if they were just hedging their bets.TonyT wrote:...the precipitation amounts were spot on...
I don't actually know, to be honest. The LP weather station recorded 26mm of precipitation yesterday, and another 7.4mm so far today, but how much of that was snow I couldn't tell you.Deano wrote:How much snow did the Lindis pick up Gary?
I see 50cm fell at Tekapo,not suprising tho being 700 metres above sea level,although Methven picked up the same amount at 320metres.
I just meant insofar as Blue Skie's forecasts for the Canterbury Plains which I compiled yesterday.Gary Roberts wrote:Ahem...not to be picky or anything, but 1-2cm was forecast for the Lindis Pass. And even then it sounded as if they were just hedging their bets.TonyT wrote:...the precipitation amounts were spot on...
But at least they called some snow...after all the Boys Crying Wolf recently I was not a believer.
I suppose it was another mesoscale convection feature, but on a much larger scale than that of mid May. The actual airmass and thickness levels I don't think would've been that low today - the coldest air should be behind tonight's front, but with alot less moisture, so much less snow (but still likely to sea-level early tomorrow in Chch, as I can't imagine it warming up tonight)If I'd picked it would have got so cold then I would have said snow to sea level. I think the evolution of the weather pattern was well forecast, the precipitation amounts were spot on, the wind forecasts pretty good (no SW gales though), its just that the precip fell as 30-50cm of snow instead of 30-50mm of rain. And that all came down to getting the temperature wrong - instead of snow to 500m by day and 200m at night it was snow to 0m from dawn.
