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Well, its bye bye to this cold front and thread.

Temp is 4.3, barometer is 1011 and is raising 2.0 per hour, partly cloudly skies, SE winds.

So the big question is, when is the next cold front suppose to hit, a weeks time?, ten days?
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melja wrote:I dont know what sum people are on about saying that this event was a fizzer :roll: as i would say it was spot on for what was forcast if you looked at tonys forcast.
Snow on ground to about 200m.
Some heavy snow in north canterbury.
And snow fluries to sea level.
What more was expected from this event :?
i expected what TonyT said because fencepost is the forcasting group i like
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yes the forcasted it earlyer rather than M/S and there nowcasting.
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melja wrote:I dont know what sum people are on about saying that this event was a fizzer
I recall some professional weatherologist or other saying it would either be a big event or a fizzer. It was not a big event, therefore it was a fizzer. ;)
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Thats all folks after some welcome rain and a little sleet over the last few days.
Thats my rant not going to Taylors to jump off though just time to move on and go into Hybernation for awhile me thinks. :cry: .
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gopolks wrote:Well, its bye bye to this cold front and thread.

Temp is 4.3, barometer is 1011 and is raising 2.0 per hour, partly cloudly skies, SE winds.

So the big question is, when is the next cold front suppose to hit, a weeks time?, ten days?
uhm, going by the models?....not anytime soon for anyone......oh well.

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Not much happened in Christchurch today.
Again.
...But maybe next time.
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Cripes thank god thats over. I hope we aren't going to jump around all over the place like flies in a **** shop everytime a promising weather system approaches the country.

Its been evangelical, almost :?
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:lol: :lol: hmm guys i wonder how this weather forum will erupt when we finally do get a good dump this year here.
Especially gopolks and snowlover! :lol:

BTW snowlover it will probably snow when you go over too aussie while we are here enjoying it :lol: ;)
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I know chch will get the biggest unexpected dumping ever while im in Aussie!!!! Always the way[/quote]
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lmao some1 just rang from my house in Hanmer. can't find the meter to turn the water on. wanted to knw excalty where abouts it is. we told them and they said ok we will go dig some more snow hehe
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Razor wrote:Cripes thank god thats over. I hope we aren't going to jump around all over the place like flies in a **** shop everytime a promising weather system approaches the country.

Its been evangelical, almost :?
You need the exercise.
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Not quite over yet - Trademe posters are reporting it snowing again in or near Darfield, Oxford, and even Amberley in last 1/2 hour. Cloudy in central Chch.
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tich wrote:Not quite over yet - Trademe posters are reporting it snowing again in or near Darfield, Oxford, and even Amberley in last 1/2 hour. Cloudy in central Chch.
I think Im cursing my area of town. The stars are shining bright.

Well I hope the good people of amberley (all 1100) of them are having fun in the snow.
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http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz ... n06077.jpg

6.20pm staellite - still looks like quite alot of shower cloud in east of South Island, but much thicker cloud over North Island. Ties in with 6pm mslp map showing low to west of North Island, moving eastward while very cold southeasterly pushes onto island. No MetService heavy snow warning for central plateau, but looks like quite abit of the white stuff should fall there, maybe to quite low levels.
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I was round at a friends house having a spa at about 6:30pm when it started to snow. A nice small dusting around Darfield. Well, I had my fun in the snow while I could...
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Razor wrote:Cripes thank god thats over. I hope we aren't going to jump around all over the place like flies in a **** shop everytime a promising weather system approaches the country.

Its been evangelical, almost :?
I'd still prefer this to Brian Tamaki, thanks.
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Right well thats that thread finished with nothing that really happend i say goodnight! .
:cry:
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we've woken up to a light dusting of snow this morning! Not much, but enough to turn the grass white and excite the kids. Won't be a very big snow man though :( Maybe next time!
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Magnificent morning here hard frost and yestedays snow still very very low on the hills. An attractive vista.
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Janos wrote:Magnificent morning here hard frost and yestedays snow still very very low on the hills. An attractive vista.
Yep a nice day inland as well -6° lots of snow on the mts
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It looks like we have lost some SI posters to the skifields today- its very quiet... ;)

Partially cloudy, strong SE, gusting to 40kms but dying, 5.4ºCmin and still only 5.9 now. Baro rising rapidly from 999 to 1010, the winds will ease but there appears to be a Low still coming ... here in the Sth Waikato... how is Hamilton - Foggy?

A cold SE airstream for the next day and at least some clear skies ahead... I'm sick of clouds and rain :evil:
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A cold clear day in chch, the port hills are bare, but banks peninsula has a very light dusting.
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Snowing here. Although lightly.
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SNOW! Just a light dusting here and it starting to snow again,1.3c baro at 1016 and wind S.W,98% Humidity. 8)
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The faintest of snow flurries in central chch right now too
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