Wintry blast 4-7 November

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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Chch Airport down to -2C, will damage local cropping/gardens.
thanks for the photo's, like your first photo Jasestrm
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Bit of Cu and a nice little cb out over the port hills this morning. Didnt see anything yesterday :( Stuck in work were I have no windows!! Stupid job lol
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Unstable shower cloud around Chch now - looks like some of these showers contain hail (only 1 brief rain shower I experienced in Riccarton around 1.45pm); not sure about thunder.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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I am currently down in Waimate at the moment on a teaching practice and yesterday we had snow showers with no rain at all. However the snow showers were not frequent enough to set on ground but hills got very good dusting!
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Wow, I can honestly say I don't think I've seen such well developmed CB's around ChCh for a very very long time.

Looks to be a cracker of a shower in the northern suburbs right now, I can see lightning and a mass of blackness with high tops
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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I went back from work (Middleton) through Summit Road and on the way I had a bit of hail/rain around Cashmere. Then on the way down the Hills, big showers of melted snow or hail.
I've got a few pictures, just the time to have a look and I will post them.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Very large t-storm at kaiapoi between 2.30 and 3 lots of very loud thunder and loads of lightning, and a solid coating of hail on the ground.
Must have taken a close hit as we have damage to a lot of our earthing points in the swithing gear and some toasted relays.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Really Melja bugger i missed it i was at course in town.
Rain here at the moment laced with sleet, still another humdinger of a trough to come up yet and its still NE no southerly yet.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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A panorama from the hills around 4:30pm, facing south :
http://alphalacertae.net/IC/summit_road_06-10-08.jpg

And some virga above the north of the city :
http://alphalacertae.net/IC/virga_06-10-08.jpg
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A good flash of lightning and hail storm passing over Dunedin as I write.
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Lacertae, nice panorama.
I would love to get a 360 degree panorama camera but they are far to expensive!
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Just had a small shower with some hail.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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looked awesomely unstable again today i thought we had more of a chance today then yesterday and it so happens that i heard there was a weak thunderstorm over Burnside area this afternoon!! o_O
Trough i think still yet to come through and i again wouldn't be surprised to get thunder out of it either.
Nice looking pics on jasestrms posting aswel :) the good old coast! its the name of the game for storms these days :P

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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?
Not in Invercargill which reached 7.2C yesterday 5th Nov.
In Nov 1993 there was a high of only 5.9C and in 1976 a high of only 6.5C.
The snowfall event I thought had been recorded there in 1978 may have been 1976
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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There's abit of thunderstorm going on around the Timaru area and possibly another just west of christchurch as of the last 20 minutes or so.
Had more spotty showers off and on here this evening and rather cool too.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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The minus 3.5C reading in the Stevenson's Screen this morning is my lowest November temperature recorded.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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got a txt from a workmate at 9pm to say it was pissing down in Timaru, been 2hrs and still nothing 15mins north here in Temuka...
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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In Nov 1993 there was a high of only 5.9C and in 1976 a high of only 6.5C.
The snowfall event I thought had been recorded there in 1978 may have been 1976
It would've been 1976 - very cold southerly that November brought snow to sea-level in Invercargill, Dunedin and Christchurch (not sure whether it settled in Chch), as well as to low levels in Westland, on Wellington's hills and as far north as the outskirts of Rotorua. This latest wintry blast I don't think has been nearly as cold in the North Island, but I've read it snowed early this morning in Reefton and on hills not far from Hokitika.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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It's snowing in Templeton at the moment and starting to settle on the grass :crazy:
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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A few showers on the way to work this morning around 7:30am and the peninsula covered with low clouds.
What a pity I can't take a day off ... :?
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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This latest wintry blast I don't think has been nearly as cold in the North Island,
18C here yesterday, down to 11C here this morning. Some humid weather on the way for early next week.

Certainly some interesting weather down South. :smile:
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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It's so close to snowing here it's just ridiculous.

What is the deal with this weather, hmm? :D

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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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:eek: what is your height above sea level there? i dont know cantabury very well.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Why has it begun to snow in Christchurch? :lol:
Oh and i think very close to sea level, a station by me says around 25M asl.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Sleeting now in central Chch.
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