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Yeah, in boring old Darfield. Just clear sky and absolutely freezing.
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grapel falling at the moment. for those that dont know what that is,it is ice between hail and snow.
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Gary Roberts wrote:
Flutterbye wrote:Thought it was going to freeze tonight - went outside at 7pm, there was no breeze and felt quite mild - then shortly after it snowed for approx 5 minutes :shock:
Woohoo! 5 mins is better than nothing. :lol:
Except that it's below freezing now and getting slippery out there :(
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Looks like there is a little electrical activity in the front tht is on the way up from Wellington - the front shows up really well on the Aussie site with a delicate arc of cloud:
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Back to overcast and light hail. :(
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Good to see Tony T on Tv tonight :)
...rather then Metaervice's forecastersserererrsrs !! :shock:

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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Good to see Tony T on Tv tonight :)
...rather then Metaervice's forecastersserererrsrs !! :shock:

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I reckon :D
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Good to see Tony T on Tv tonight :)
...rather then Metaervice's forecastersserererrsrs !! :shock:

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yes janos it seems to be coming in, in showers here in canterbury country iswell. sum with sleet others with hail and then grapel is well.
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Different conditions all over town tonight. Hail in the CBD at 6pm. Hail up my way at about 7.20pm. Drove home and couldn't get up the hill in the car. Walked the 3km up from the bottom as the 4WD's drove past us :lol: .

Snow shower about before 9 but clear again. The company car stays in the valley tonight ](*,)
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Fujita Phil wrote:Walked the 3km up from the bottom as the 4WD's drove past us :lol: .
Finally a use for those city "SUVs"! I'm surprised they figured out how to use that magical second lever though... :twisted: :lol: :twisted: :lol:
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Gary Roberts wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Good to see Tony T on Tv tonight :)
...rather then Metaervice's forecastersserererrsrs !! :shock:

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yay flutterbye you had 5 mins of snow :D
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squid wrote:yay flutterbye you had 5 mins of snow :D
The roads, driveway etc were dry before that pitifall amount and now it's as slippery as. :shock:

It was pretty while it lasted :lol:
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snow to 400 metres in the NI gosh wont that mean that it will probably snow in wellington?
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Heavy snowfall warning for Canterbury has been lifted.
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http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... as=wnradar

check out wellington radar is that heavy rain or heavy snow??
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squid wrote:http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... as=wnradar

check out wellington radar is that heavy rain or heavy snow??
id say heavy rain squid and a posible thunderstorm in there is well thats my guess.
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Well Lincoln didn't even see one measly little snow flake :cry: And I was so excited that there might be a bit of snow....it kinda makes up for the FREEZING COLD....Never mind - maybe next time :)
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some wintry showers passed through here this evening. :)

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Wintry showers coming through with grapel and hail havnt had any sleet yet though. :?
I am going for the hours between 6-11am tomorrow morning there should be some significant snow to sea level of course with it being the coldest between 5-6am with new day dawning. 8)
One can only hope we will wake up to see snow on the ground :D .
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Anyone else sick of the term 'wintry showers'? Just seems like such a lazy oxymoron. :?

Every shower we get here from June 21 to September 23 is wintry, indeed! ;)
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Hey whats grapel? Is that somewhere between snow and hail? The hail here comes in 30 second busts, it goes flat out on the roof for 30 seconds then I look outside and enough has fallen to cover the cars and street.
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Fujita Phil wrote:Different conditions all over town tonight. Hail in the CBD at 6pm. Hail up my way at about 7.20pm. Drove home and couldn't get up the hill in the car. Walked the 3km up from the bottom as the 4WD's drove past us :lol:
Good exercise Phil, but you should have waited 1/2 an hour! We got up no problem in a little Festiva (Sube was warmly tucked up in it's garage) and we're not that far down the road from you. ;)
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Evening Gentlemen,

The WN rain radar image posted shows the rain event which started around 1600 this afternoon and continues now at 2220. So far my station has recorded 18.6mm of rain, however, its a reasonablly warm evening at 6.1 Degrees C and a steady barometric pressure of 1011.4hPa. We are sheltered from the southerlies, so can't say if the temperature has plummeted with the forecast S change closer to the CBD...
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