Front and Low, 9th - 12th May

[southernthrash]

Drizzly moisture here in the south. It's possible that light snow fell on the tops but I'd say it won't have been much, if any, as it's far too warm.

move to queenstown

[Gary Roberts]

Drizzle has turned to light rain now and temps are rising. Definitely a no-snow event but great for the lakes.

[Manukau heads obs]

heavy rain here now too
rain radar shows a narrow line of heavy rain has moved right across the auckland area

[Gary Roberts]

Met Service have just revoked their heavy snow warning for South Canterbury and Otago.

The rain is very welcome though.

[Vertigo]

the lightning activity seems to yet again be skipping auckland.

[Gary Roberts]

the lightning activity seems to yet again be skipping auckland.

Can you blame it?

KIDDING!

[Vertigo]

actually, no, i dont blame it one bit i know if i was a cg strike, id rather hit on a nice rolling hilltop covered with trees than the bloody sky tower.

edit: strikes being recorded south of auckland, what did i say?

edit2: strikes moving north towards us, anyone see anything? i see nothing.

[Manukau heads obs]

strikes look to be in the N and NE waikato at the moment
matamata

[southernthrash]

Met Service have just revoked their heavy snow warning for South Canterbury and Otago.

The rain is very welcome though.

Funny that they do that as the snow really starts falling (in otago at least)

Like how they pulled the Milford Road snowfall warning last night, only to put it back up this morning, with the introduction that snow had already settled on the road.

No doubt this is a touch and go system in many respects, but it seems pretty obvious that at least "wet" snow will fall, especially at higher elevations, and quite heavily at times.

[Gary Roberts]

actually, no, i dont blame it one bit i know if i was a cg strike, id rather hit on a nice rolling hilltop covered with trees than the bloody sky tower.

edit: strikes being recorded south of auckland, what did i say?

edit2: strikes moving north towards us, anyone see anything? i see nothing.

Good luck with the Action Weather up there, guys! It's always more entertaining in the north, when it comes to stuff like that.

Nice and warm here now and getting warmer. The rain has almost stopped and the cloud base lifted quite a bit. Little-or-no snow on the Lindis yet: we may see some tonight but it doesn't look too likely.

How about you send some lightning down here to make things interesting for us Southerners?

[Manukau heads obs]

nice cell building over Titirangi right now

[Cameo1]

yes some amazing mamatus above us right now:)

[Lawrence]

Having a quick look at the latest gfs model run for chch, still looks like there will be a some what decent amount of rain from lunch sunday over night thru monday. Will be bitterly cold sunday night!

Looking at the models and M/S it still looks good for dare I say, a slight snow event Sunday night Monday morning

[southernthrash]

Cloud beginning to clear to show extent of latest snow fall on Coronet Peak in the south

[Manukau heads obs]

looks to be lightning strikes in south auckland area at the moment

[David]

Had a rumble of thunder here just now, there was one earlier this morning at 9am as well (not close), when at the time it went very dark, I had not seen it that dark in the day for a long time. 4.3mm overnight and 4.3mm since 7.30am here.

[Gary Roberts]

Yay, the stars are out here now!

MS got the moisture part right and, if it had got a wee bit cooler, might have been correct about the snow too, so good work by them.

Not enough rain to have much of an impact on the lakes, unfortunately. And of course no snow at all, even on the tops, due to the highish temperatures.

Maybe all the locals predicting another snowless, winterless winter may be right again too.

"Snow in May, there's no way!
Snow in June, don't be a spoon!
Snow in July, that's a lie!
Snow in August, not even dust."

[Vertigo]

wow, last nights sounding is amazing

[Gary Roberts]

wow, last nights sounding is amazing

It looks to have been slightly chilly at altitude.

[southernthrash]

Yay, the stars are out here now!

MS got the moisture part right and, if it had got a wee bit cooler, might have been correct about the snow too, so good work by them.

Not enough rain to have much of an impact on the lakes, unfortunately. And of course no snow at all, even on the tops, due to the highish temperatures.

Maybe all the locals predicting another snowless, winterless winter may be right again too.

"Snow in May, there's no way!
Snow in June, don't be a spoon!
Snow in July, that's a lie!
Snow in August, not even dust."

Haha so the DoC field office at Mt Cook are liars then ha?

[Gary Roberts]

The recent rain has washed away the remnants of the snowfall from a few weeks back, which is good because there is some moonlight tonight and I'm planning to get some imaging in.

It's very clear and cold on the mountain right now. Observatory warmrooms are wonderful things! No more of that 'standing around a telescope and getting frostbite' method of astronomy.

[Lawrence]

Wind has picked up here from the south,looking very stormy and dark over the banks Raining now

[Ryan Thomas]

Was raining hard briefly and a little hail

[Lawrence]

Just a brief shower,Large Cu building up just South West of here, on very vigourous wind aloft.Seem to be spawning out to the coast near Timaru.

[mikestormchaser]

Im a tad surprised wasn't a thunder clap in that sporadic shower we had earlier actually, was very dark and came in with howling winds, heavy rain and hail for about 10 mins.
No thunder heard