Cold snap June 7th-9th may not be as bad as first thought

Chris Raine · Unread post by **Chris Raine** » Thu 07/06/2007 23:31

Invercargill had a decent thunderstorm and heavy snow and hail around 1830 to 1900 . Lots of drifted hail and snow in gutters around Richmond and Queens Park area . Still occasional showers of soft hail drifting through

Smeagol · Unread post by **Smeagol** » Fri 08/06/2007 04:51

Yes it is close to 5am, but I've just come back from Porters Pass and it's heavy snow up there all the way down just past Springfield and then light snow just past Sheffield and sleet in Darfield. Hopefully it turns to snow!!!

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Fri 08/06/2007 05:45

MetService said that they didn't pick the rain/sleet/snow for Canterbury this morning as they did expect the wind to be more SWW

Will be interesting to see what the front brings to Canty later in the day

kiwisk8er · Unread post by **kiwisk8er** » Fri 08/06/2007 06:49

Well theres nothing at all here in Dunedin at sea level

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 08/06/2007 07:26

West of SW flow Dunedin City has some sheltering from the Hill country to the SW but there's plenty of active Cb cloud still to move through I see. Tends to mostly catch Balclutha south but also gets into Strath Taieri to the west of Dunedin.

Janos · Unread post by **Janos** » Fri 08/06/2007 07:44

The graphics maybe basic but the accuracy seems to right up there.
Well done Fencepost they seem to hit the nail fair a square on the head.

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Fri 08/06/2007 10:51

I had a good initial fall at my house at 8.30am this morning. Big flakes and covered the road even but obviously was gone after 30 mins.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Fri 08/06/2007 11:42

Sunny now in Chch after a bit of rain overnight; maybe some sleet too, as it was reported at Airport. (got down to 2C in city) Snow on tops around Akaroa; haven't seen Port Hills yet, but probably not.

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 12:19

I can see the Port Hills from my kitchen window and there is no snow there

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 12:24

Light dusting of snow on Mt Herbert tho, which is a little higher than Port Hills

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 08/06/2007 13:24

Sure did blow a gale from the SW at about 3am woke me up I thought there was an earthqauke

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Also a little bit of precipitation not sure if it was just rain or there was some ice in the mix, but it was 3C at 6:30am when going to fetch the paper.
Yes a light dusting of snow on Mt Herbert and even thicker dusting further back looking more E-SE sumner way, would be about 300-400m perhaps.
Be interesting to see what happens along this next change its currently NE and sunny at the moment.
Cheers
Jason.

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 13:33

How far away do u think the next change is?

Storm Struck · Unread post by **Storm Struck** » Fri 08/06/2007 14:17

Within the next 2-3 hours i am hoping

interesting to see clouds developing by themselves as a result of this onshore fresh NE wind

NE against upper level S-SW which could well get colder soon.
Tracker has been showing a few strikes offshore not sure how accurate it is.
Cheers
Jason.

kiwisk8er · Unread post by **kiwisk8er** » Fri 08/06/2007 15:08

Its snowing!

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 15:11

Yay!!!! u guys are so lucky down there!!!!

hope we get some falls in chch this winter like we did last

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 15:17

I see Timaru's wind has swung to the south.

kiwisk8er · Unread post by **kiwisk8er** » Fri 08/06/2007 15:29

Snowlover wrote:Yay!!!! u guys are so lucky down there!!!! hope we get some falls in chch this winter like we did last

It stopped after a minute

at least now i can say i've seen some snow flakes

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Fri 08/06/2007 16:04

Tekapo and Castle Hill both clear and sunny at the moment.

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 16:04

Well this polar blast isn't doing much in chch. When is the next one due? I heard some1 say this time next week, is that true?

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Fri 08/06/2007 16:07

Yes certainly did rain abit last night, early hours of this morning! wasn't heavy though. poked my head out the window and it felt cold!

There is a good amount of snow that has fallen on banks peninsula, i wouldnt of been surprised if it was sleeting early this morning!

Snowlover · Unread post by **Snowlover** » Fri 08/06/2007 16:08

I slept through the rain, didn't even knw it had rained!!! It probably did sleet cause airport got down to 2C

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Fri 08/06/2007 16:30

Shame the snow missed the Otago Skii fields( just light falls there) the deeper shower cloud passed east of fiordland, moved through Southland out to the NE.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Fri 08/06/2007 21:02

Only 0.4mm of rain here at west Melton, 2.6mm at the hospital in Halswell.
Never heard the wind this morning.
Light NE here all day until 6pm when it went southerly.
Becoming fine now with a light westerly and down to 3Â°C

JohnGaul
NZTS

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Fri 08/06/2007 21:49

Precipitation obviously moving offshore from Canterbury now - this afternoon's cloud didn't come to anything. But tomorrow afternoon could be interesting - hail and sleet may be possible. (I imagine this could be a classic thunderstorm scenario if it was to happen in a warmer month)

mikestormchaser · Unread post by **mikestormchaser** » Fri 08/06/2007 23:20

Very cold outside here tonight, extreme frosty conditions.
Just aswel i have my car cover on

At a guess id say the temperature is close too 0C it is very cold!