WINTERY BLAST STARTING FRIDAY 8TH

[sw_windbow]

Theres settled snow about 3 to 4 cms deep on the ground around my house and presumeably further afield out there in the dark. I live about 40 m asl on the north-facing wall of North East Valley.

[frosty]

theres a light dusting here its freezing cold outside and the sky is white but not much happening at the moment.the port hills look to have a good covering too.

[mikestormchaser]

Snowing have about 2cm on the ground now, has settled and still snowing but not heavy.

[TimboT]

Quite heavy snow showers on ChCh hill suburbs. About 2 - 3 cm of snow up here over night. Roads are white but drivable with care. Looks like most roofs in ChCh are white when the weather clears and I can see them.

[carrot]

Thanks for pic, you got more then us.
Sleety showers passing thru every couple of mins.

[Janos]

Definately no show stopper on the Peninsula although you could climb 400metres to the top and look down onto the snow in the city. But thats the micro climate we have here. Certainly the hill suburbs seem to well covered.
Ill see if i can get some photos from friends in the city.

[gopolks]

We have had quite a few snow showers coming thru here, during the past hours, lawn is covered.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Been out and about on the roads from 6am this morning. Seen some heavy snow showers. One in town this morning and cashmere region very good falls. Lots of snow on hackthorne road. Here in halswell we have heavy snow falling at the moment and no grass shows on back lawn anymore hopefully few more heavy snow showers yet

[gopolks]

Its looks very pretty, the sun has poked its head through and the hills and the lawns look real pretty with the sun shining on the snow, cannot complain about this winter, three decent snow falls right to sea level.

[gllitz]

Mission accomplished by me and the kids...see attached

Sun is now coming out... But the snow was nice to wake up to

[carrot]

Rain, hail, snow, sleet - The works. Light hail now, was snow moments ago.
3 falls this winter not bad

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Here we go again, heavy snow shower. Temperature of 0.5degrees and i have 3cm on the backlawn. WOnder what they have in cashmere and westmorland...

[spwill]

Great to see those snow pics .
An interesting year for snowfall down there.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

anyone see us getting anymore snow showers?

[melja]

Well hats of to M/S, they had us down for snow days and days ago but maybe not to sea level

[spwill]

Well hats of to M/S, they had us down for snow days and days ago but maybe not to sea level

MetService had this low level snow in the forecast for eastern SI last Sunday.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

yay, snowing heavy again here, in for another 5-10min shower

[gopolks]

starting to get dark here again.

[tich]

Light dusting in central Chch. Sleeting now.

[gopolks]

and here we go.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

sun is out now and looking clearest its been all day. Quite a bit of blue sky too.

[gopolks]

Yep , i think we just had one last flurry and now the sun is out, but boy oh boy, the hills look amazing!!

[carrot]

Sunny here too, can't see any close shower cloud, however id say more sleet to come.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Looks like some shower cloud to the south east coming from around tai tapu and hitting the cashmere region soon, very coastal looking. Here in halswell, in the very south of CHCH i cant see any shower clouds either at the moment striking here. However, is looking little black out there now.

[TimboT]

Blue skies issued at 12:35pm. Must be confident as they are saying snow "to sea level and not "near sea level"

"Friday 80% 3-5 Cool/Cold Increasing SW Snow to Sea Level
Saturday 80% 5-10 Very Cold Strong SW Snow to Sea Level "

Tony's forecast on Monday was pretty much spot on to ...