Yet...another cold Weekend

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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Now raining out near Akaroa with the temperature falling. Should be an interesting trip back to Chch tomorrow morning.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Looking very stormy towards the south and out to sea.temp here 7.5 with a brsk to light southerly.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Just was at a friend's place in Little River...could see the initial southerly coming over Ellesmere...very dark clouds...no camera, so no pics, sorry...judging by the latest radar pic, it's what I saw...glad I got back to CHCH when I did! :-)

Yeah, the latest numbers (and that's all they are...numbers) look good for snow to sea level for CHCH...the sat loops here:

http://amrc.ssec.wisc.edu/realmovie.html

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...show the wintry blast coming straight off the Antarctic continent...gonna be a cold one, that's for sure! And looks to be lasting right thru to late Tues arvo...I suspect we won't see the snow here in CHCH until Monday arvo/evening...but then again, who knows? Could be nothing at all, but I really do think we'll see snow, for the fourth time this year...the question now, is...how much?
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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How much? Heaps! ( Wishful thinking ) ;)
Looks like it'll be raining over BP soon.
Hope BP doesn't take all the bad weather :)
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Holy!! Look at the latest GFS run for 6hrs for CHCH. Showing 91.2mm with 3 consecutive periods of 20mm plus in 6 hr periods. Not from this system but something late next week and into the weekend. I reckon its just one of those fluke runs though. Black skies overhead now, waiting for heavens to open, im thinking some hail in amoung this.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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the forecast charts over at metvuw are also showing something like that for next weekend, looks like it won't last too long though.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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I'd say a fluke too, lets survive this bit of bad weather before looking foward to next weekends possible bad weather :D
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Some nice looking CB clouds coming in from the south, they look thundery but nothing picking up on the trackers maybe when it comes onto land abit more :-) .
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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yeh, goten very dark now, clouds are overhead and i be thinking some hail wont be far off the cards either.

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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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yes, we have had few very dark clouds go past with faint dampness in air but nothing hit the ground as yet here in halswell. Looking good here in south chch, not too far away!
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Look very dark indeed 8)
Wind picking up too.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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The rain has ceased for now (but still overcast) - I can see a fresh light dusting of snow above about 500m.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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It's raining here.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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6.5 degrees now and dropping 28km/h Southerly
Rain shower here now
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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make that 6.1C now mark 8o
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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make that 5.8C now tornadoman. Your turn to get it down more for us ;)
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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MarkThomas wrote:yes but if u go to 'brief forecast they are saying to 100m tomorrow. Also the heavy snow warning says lesser falls down to 100m. So we are seriously looking at sea level as real possibility. They take the conserative approach
I disagree they take the "conservative approach" Mark. That puts lives at risk. I think you'll find they look at the data and give the best advice/forecast they can.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Some nice looking CB clouds coming in from the south, they look thundery
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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My turn :B


Still 5.8. aww :(, rain eased off a lil
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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and again its 5.8. Stuck on that.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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5.2 here and still dropping
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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I dont think we need temps posted here every 5mins guys its not a race to the most posts on a topic.
Hehe im going tramping next weekend for tree days, wounder what i will incounter?
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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well at this stage GFS models would suggest very heavy rain lol, but im sure its a fluke run.
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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wahooo, little bit of sleet in rain here now, certainly looks like it from street lights and the sound of it!
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Re: Yet...another cold Weekend

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Good gracious, I was out delivering stuff and it was really getting quite heavy...absolutely soaked. :(
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