Wintry blast 4-7 November

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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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First Hail shower of the day in my part of chch going through now.
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had some light snow mixed with rain here in Temuka at 4pm, had some hail around 8.30am
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Few spits of hail about 1 hours ago. Now raining lightly in central Chch, and down to a wintry 4.2C at Jeff's.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Interesting to see that wind damage in Chch, I see a Thunderstorm moved over the Banks Peninsula area. There was also one or two strikes down Otago and Southland way.
Queenstown was 0C at 1pm, would be very cold in June.
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There's snow on the tops of the first row of hills, snow must have been falling quite low, maybe 100m in flurries considering there were big sleet drops here.
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Dry here today, with a breezy westerly wind. A light shower around 8.45am wasnt enough to wet the ground, and nothing but fluffy CU floating past since. Plenty of sunshine this afternoon brought the temp up to 13.5, but the dewpoint stayed around -1. Temp down to 8 now. Quite a nice day really. :)
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Just posted a photo of Sugarloaf taken at 6:45pm from my house in the photographs section. Temperature dropped to 4.0C during that shower. The white covering has melted quickly.
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Very little thunder in the South Island today. The Invercargill sounding shows a very low tropopause at 5000m which is a bit low for thunderstorms. Very low trops are typical of polar airmasses.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Got a CB at 7.30pm and half is illuminated by the low sunlight.
Frezzing cold wind, that was blowing now it has eased as of 8.00pm.
I saw on the lightning radar that hamilton got some strikes but yet i didn't hear anything and i am very surprised that anything would happen as is is freezing cold and wind is blowing that would cap any updrafts that happen.
Update: Im with Foggy, there are tones of fireworks being let off.
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NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: With this system, there must be a tornado somewhere?

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Cool, showery and windy here today with gusts to 55 km/h. Lots of fire crackers out tonight however.
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Rather heavy but brief shower here just put a dampener on things. Heaps of fireworks going off 10mins ago, some quite close/loud (free display) :smile: Rather nippy out though.

Can't access the metservice site this evening. :(
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Decent shower of snow pellets and even large hail 1900 - 1915 temp dropped to 2.2 degrees , now occasional light showers small hail and the odd flake of snow . Temp hovering between 2-3 degrees.Struggling to get on Met Service website . Currently sleeting as I type this 2115.
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Chris Raine wrote:Struggling to get on Met Service website .
Yes. Same here.
They must have a small user provider running it???


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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Well iv been working up around lyttleton area today and i certainly saw some very big clouds aswel.
Definatly thunder looking and did get unstable, i thought i saw flash lightning out to sea earlier on tonight, may have been as CG plotted towards birdlings flat.
Getting close guys just matter of time when it will happen!! hope people have had a safe and happy guyfawkes another one out the way this year.

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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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****ing 2:30-11pm shift. Saw some tall clouds on the way to work. Was a hail shower while it was still sunny when I was biking. Was odd.
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There still seems to be a few showers offshore flicking out some lightning, too far out to cause any concern to us.
Here are the belated photo's from today, it certainly brewed up quick over BP way when the gusty Westerly kicked in around 1pm.
Some of these photo's might help to get an idea of the cloud height etc with the brief tornado in Parklands, I am not sure what time it struck but i took the landscape photo's around 3:30pm.
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Some more photo's of the actual shower activity when I recieved 3 icy showers.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Cold here this morning. Sitting on -1.6c.
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wow, its like reading a thread in the middle of winter, not 1 month out from summer,LOL!
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Any update about that tornado in Christchurch ?
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I think metservice need to get there act together :mad: there website is crap and is getting worse and to think we are funding this place to give us info about the weather when we need to know it and they cant #-o

Pull your head in guys and fix your bloody website!
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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melja wrote:I think metservice need to get there act together :mad: there website is crap and is getting worse and to think we are funding this place to give us info about the weather when we need to know it and they cant #-o

Pull your head in guys and fix your bloody website!
Hear hear!

Not the first time it's been said however.
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I completely agree, they need to have more web servers to deal with the load and traffic.
What would be really good, take a leaf out of NOAA's book. The maps are brilliant and that site over metservice wins handsdown.
What a shame that it is only for America
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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More snow to wake up to this morning. Snow line (light) about 200m today so I have a smattering around my property. Motorway open etc so certainly not shutting down the city ;-)
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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did any records get broken in the far south for lowest day time maximum for time of year?
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