15 cm of snow on the ground and still snowing.

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15 cm of snow on the ground and still snowing.

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I was so wrong! :shock: :o :lol:
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Family in west Timaru tell me they have 15cm of snow and its still coming down there.

A great example of a warm advective snow storm.
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I was wondering why the sound of the pouring rain suddenly stopped...and now I know why....white stuff falling from the sky tends to make no noise :-P
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Just turned to snow here in the last half hour, very large flakes and accumulating on the ground now. Temp +1.0, baro 988 and still dropping.
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Any thoughts as to how much we might see from this? I suspect not much, as it will probably melt away within hours of stopping...just wondering as I have to take the kids to school this morning...?? :-)
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Dont -never know what thats like ;)
gllitz wrote:I was wondering why the sound of the pouring rain suddenly stopped...and now I know why....white stuff falling from the sky tends to make no noise :-P
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:D Sweet

We have (as I peer through the darkness) a snow line around 500m. But a according to the forecast it should be on the beach soon ;)
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been snowing for just over an hour now its now settling fast on the concreate and roads we are at sea level here.
Settling much faster than last year on the 19th.
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the main warm front with the low is still to pass over the top of the SI yet...
so alot of snow for nth canty and kaikoura could be to come in the next 3 hours or so?
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Channel 1 reporting 75 cm of snow in Fairlie! :shock:
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Just had a farmer client ring in with a report of 8 inches, 20cm, on the ground on his farm which is right on the coast just south of Ashburton. And still snowing.
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Still nothing happening down here - a slight N breeze, patches of blue sky and 2 degrees :)
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finally able to get access to the net

Its still snowing here in burwood, chch. Settling quickly.
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Turned to a ligher snow outside but reports of very heavy snow now falling in south canterbury. 8)
Went out to the street looks like someone nearly went into the footpath skidmarks evident.
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Interesting tid-bit on Jeff's weather site:

On this day:
In 1996
Many roads were closed as heavy snow set-in over Canterbury and the Kaikoura Coast, with falls reaching sea level. Heaviest falls occurred inland where about 40 cm fell in some places.
Locals said it was the first time in 100 years that snow had settled on the beach at Kaikoura! Both Dunedin and Christchurch Airports closed, along with several schools.
Source: Metservice

http://weather.northcott.co.nz/

Neat! 8)

Any more thoughts as to how much will settle here in Canterbury, especially here in CHCH? :-)
Snow went to rain/sleet for a while but now back to snow again...with power flickers now and then...upsetting my broadband modem...grrrrr.....
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gllitz wrote:Interesting tid-bit on Jeff's weather site:

On this day:
In 1996
Many roads were closed as heavy snow set-in over Canterbury and the Kaikoura Coast, with falls reaching sea level. Heaviest falls occurred inland where about 40 cm fell in some places.
Locals said it was the first time in 100 years that snow had settled on the beach at Kaikoura! Both Dunedin and Christchurch Airports closed, along with several schools.
Source: Metservice

http://weather.northcott.co.nz/

Neat! 8)





Any more thoughts as to how much will settle here in Canterbury, especially here in CHCH? :-)
Snow went to rain/sleet for a while but now back to snow again...with power flickers now and then...upsetting my broadband modem...grrrrr.....

Rather ironic :lol:
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Jasestrm wrote:Turned to a ligher snow outside but reports of very heavy snow now falling in south canterbury. 8)
Went out to the street looks like someone nearly went into the footpath skidmarks evident.
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Beware! Lots of exaggeration going on, as usual. A guy told me he had three feet of snow on his lawn. I went passed his house a short while later on my way elsewhere and he has at most 15-30 cm. Everybody I've spoken to has grossly overestimated the amount of snow, including a local who provided a report for a radio station.

There's snow alright, but nothing like the quantities being reported. Maybe there's a lot more in other places (although I'm told none at all fell on Queenstown, much to their disgust), but it's likely there's a great deal of misleading reporting going on from all over.

Now I'm off to frolic in the foot or so we got with my baby daughter! :lol:
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Flutterbye wrote:Rather ironic :lol:
Did you guys down there get any snow, and if so how much?
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Now over 30 cm in Ashburton.Well from what Im told!.
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About 5cm here, but its 5cm of really wet sticky stuff, so not only do we have 5cm on the ground, we have 5cm on all the trees, power lines, fence tops etc, plus 5 cm on the vertical sides of buildings, cars, trees, power poles! Quite a bit of damage to trees and bushes from the weight of the snow. Our shadehouse (1 acre) has collapsed under the weight, and the roof of our plastic tunnel house is looking dodgy.
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Gary Roberts wrote:
Flutterbye wrote:Rather ironic :lol:
Did you guys down there get any snow, and if so how much?
It's laughable - yesterday afternoon they were forecasting sleet/strong SW - overnight it was nearly calm, slight N, moonlight and between 1 and 2 degrees. Very sunny now though still cold. So not a flake has fallen here :roll: :)
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TonyT wrote:About 5cm here, but its 5cm of really wet sticky stuff, so not only do we have 5cm on the ground, we have 5cm on all the trees, power lines, fence tops etc, plus 5 cm on the vertical sides of buildings, cars, trees, power poles! Quite a bit of damage to trees and bushes from the weight of the snow. Our shadehouse (1 acre) has collapsed under the weight, and the roof of our plastic tunnel house is looking dodgy.
Lovely dry powdery stuff here, although plenty on lines and things because we got so much. The old S/W antenna wire stretched between the neighbour's place and my house came down...I'd forgotten it was even there! And we only just got AC main power back about 20 minutes ago.
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Flutterbye wrote:
Gary Roberts wrote: Did you guys down there get any snow, and if so how much?
It's laughable - yesterday afternoon they were forecasting sleet/strong SW - overnight it was nearly calm, slight N, moonlight and between 1 and 2 degrees. Very sunny now though still cold. So not a flake has fallen here :roll: :)
A guy I spoke to this morning in Queenstown is pouring concrete right now, so I guess it goes to show that Invercargill wasn't the only place to have missed out!
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I haven't lit the fire because the sun is warming up the house nicely. :D
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