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I've received a text from a friend saying theres big snowflakes falling down on the hill, none here surprisingly..
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Abit of rain here now with a few flakes thrown in, looks like it may snow again soon chch last few radars indicate more moisture developing from Templeton-Ashburton and inland.
Up to 2cm here in most places deepest i got was 2.5cm, most concrete surfaces have melted the snow away now because the surface is so warm but not other surfaces.
Fire siren went off at about 5pm with sirens whailing south of Kaiapoi so not quite sure what that was about.
Sky didgital is down at the moment too :evil: better be on for the rugga.
Here is some pics anywayz.
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One more for all you snow lovers :) .
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We've got medium-sized flakes here for the last five mins or so.
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Interesting photos there, Jase :)
Raining here now, intermingled with a bit of sleet, so that will get rid of the snow overnight. Temperature now up to 0.5ºC.

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beautiful snow here now prob the heviest snow shower yet hopeful keeps going
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tornadoman18 wrote:beautiful snow here now prob the heviest snow shower yet hopeful keeps going
Indeed, snowing again here, too...don't think it will last much longer, though...radar loops show it ending in the next hour or so...but the SW "shower train" looks nice and set up for BP...
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Half an hour of snow, still going...
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We've got a nice covering on the lawn now :)
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Snowing heavily in central Chch after having eased up earlier. Should be starting to settle.
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Reports from online forums says its also been snowing heavily in North Canterbury, eg Hanmer and Culverden. Kaikoura was down to 3C at 6pm.
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yes my car is completely covered and so is the grass, stopped again.

and is it just me, or are these clouds now coming from the northwest 8-[
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I would like to lodge a formal complaint within this thread. :evil:

Once again Dunedin has been left largely out of the snowfall area from a Cold Front with a lot of promise. I believe the Cantabrians are being excessively greedy in hogging nearly all the settling snow for a nearly South Island-wide weather event. [-X

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But didnt Dunedin steal Canterbury's snow events last year, all through winter. So we are not even yet. Cant needs to steal more of you guys down there.

This was fab snow event for canterbury, and was not even expected snow to Tim, Ash or even CHCH. Going up on the port hills tomorrow if the roads are opens. or maybe nth cant for a drive.
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The UKmet and basic GFS didn't pick todays Canterbury snowfall. But I could see these models were in trouble last night though.

Looks to still be a good crop of snow shower cloud off the Southland/ south Otago coasts so Dunedin folk shouldn't call it over yet!
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Snowflake wrote:But didnt Dunedin steal Canterbury's snow events last year, all through winter. So we are not even yet. Cant needs to steal more of you guys down there.

This was fab snow event for canterbury, and was not even expected snow to Tim, Ash or even CHCH. Going up on the port hills tomorrow if the roads are opens. or maybe nth cant for a drive.
they sure did snowflake it should be our turn this year not OTAGO!!
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Well that was a nice wee event, snow settled on the ground, big thick flakes, a good start to winter. Two nice bursts tonight, and hopefully wake up to a sunny morning with the snow on the tops of the mountains, that would make a lovely view.
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4.6 degrees at Thornbury (warming from the 3 degrees at 1800 and we have missed the snow as well.The occasional shower of small hail, that's it
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Have just driven home from Mosgiel where there was a severe frost and heavy snow beginning to fall.
Much warmer on the Peninsula....currently 2.6deg and sleeting ....
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Its 0c here and freezing outside.. still no more sign of snow. Its very still and extremley cold out. I think the snow will freeze with a chance of more overnight
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The frontal system passed through Wellington/Upper Hutt around 7pm and was captured well by my station and others in the area. Our temp dropped from 13.1C at 7pm to 6.0C at 8pm (still dropping now at -1.5C per hr) The front contained a heavy 13.0mm rain event and a Southerly change. We also recorded some lightning strikes and heard some thunder as well. All in all, quite an interesting evening, and the All Blacks certainly felt the cold down at the Cake Tin! :) :) :)
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Was at a mates and his lawn was covered
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Well my snow is going nowhere.. Its clear sky and stars out and at 9,30pm my snow everywhere was rock solid frozen! Unless it rains a LOT it will be there for the next day or two..
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anyone would think reading all these posts that you guys have never seen snow before,harden up fellas, LOL!
but I guess everyone got caught up in the excitment of it all
sounds like though it has been heavy enough to do some damage in some areas, so thats not good
the fact the barometer did not rise after the front went through suggests to me that a low developed over the canterbury area, in behind the front, in the lee of the mountains, and so you ended up with the dropping barometer cooling the airmass
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Very Heavy snow shower at the moment ...driven by a strong southerly.
Settled at Larnach castle.
May settle......
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