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Was looking good for awhile but it's too offshore of being stuck in a SW flow. Also the Westerly is tearing the storm apart unfortunatly.
Maybe later on tonight when the trough moves over us things should be looking much better :) .
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Just heard Queenstown Airport is closed due to snow 8) sure sounds like it's a cold one coming hopefully tonight proves interesting.
Windchange just hitting with black clouds about no lightning but perhaps some heavy rain on the cards soon.
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Had a briefly heavy shower of rain about 1/2 hour ago. The southerly change arrived and sent the temperature plummeting - now only 9C. At 4pm, Oamaru was 4C, Timaru 5C and Tara Hills 3C, so snow could be well down on the hills of South Canterbury.
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The bad weather predicted in Canterbury may be hitting home.


Hail has been reported in Fairlie in South Canterbury.


A caller to the Christchurch newsroom says his daughter, who lives five miles south of Fairlie, told him the hail there is so thick she cannot see the next door neighbours' house. She told him they are experiencing thunder and lightning. The southerly storm is predicted to hit Christchurch this evening with the possibility of snow to 500 metres.


Tonight's low is expected to drop to 4 degrees.
(From Newstalk ZB)

And there's just seen an item on TV1 News showing snow in Central Otago falling in Arrowtown and the Crown Range, and saying that snow's just started falling in Dunedin.
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Wow is this a weather bomb? lol bring it on!!!! i want to see snow again!!!
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TV 3 just said there has been reports of snow around inland timaru!!! and snow down to 200m for christchurch now
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also the ashburton weather station is currently saying sleet fall :shock:
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Its looking nice and black over the south-west of Christchurch now
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Snow to about 400m so far here. Sleet and hail (would just about admit flurries) here at 200m.

Not a bad coverage on Flagstaff too
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few thunderstorms about just before the front hit today!
now raining hard laced with hail.
And snow in dunedin? OMG!
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Snowlover wrote:also the ashburton weather station is currently saying sleet fall :shock:
I wonder how it knows that?
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Weather Prophets are crystal balling some thunder in the forecast for here tomorrow :twisted: 8) \:D/
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Snowing on and off in Ashburton :shock:
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ashburton is down to 2C any1 think that we may see flakes in Christchurch tonight?
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ashburton is down to 2C any1 think that we may see flakes in Christchurch tonight?
Earlier today, I wouldn't have thought so, but the way that the temp has dropped in Canterbury in recent hours (and that's already been snowing in Ashburton - only 100m asl), I wouldn't be so surprised now. That said, November snow in Chch is a very rare event - I think the last time it happened was 1976. (30 years ago)
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Looks like weather forecasters may have been stumped again, re snow to lower levels! Although I never saw anything in models I guess its alot harder to forecast flurries more than anything, and if there were to be put into forecasts that would probably just panic people more than anything.

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yes 03stormchaser is very hard to predict somtimes, its only around 4C here now! heavy rain hint of maybe some sleet
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Odds on a white Christmas anyone? :lol:
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well i think we may see some sleet here anyway temperture continuing to fall!!!! maybe another hour? any thoughts?
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Definatly ice in that rain maybe sleet or grapel now 4C too 8) .
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:lol: i wouldnt wanna put a bet on it TonyT :lol: but its looking good for snow later! 8) at this stage ;)
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I got snow here :D
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Snow on the ground in Methven, temuka and geraldine.

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Looks like weather forecasters may have been stumped again, re snow to lower levels! Although I never saw anything in models I guess its alot harder to forecast flurries more than anything
The ECMWF has been indicating a wintry out break for over a week now so no suprise to see the low level snow today.
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Snow on the ground in Methven, temuka and geraldine.

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Another poster now reports it's snowing in Weedons, near Rolleston and not far from Chch. Down to 3.8C at Hillmorton and it's raining steadily in central Chch.
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