Wintry blast 4-7 November

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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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Snowing quite heavily in Arrowtown from the looks of it at the moment!
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Snowing again in Invercargill.
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mattyj46 wrote:Snowing again in Invercargill.
Didn't last long though.
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A boquet to the Metsservice...I've often criticised them for underperformance during severe events, but I see their overloading page at least shows the short forecast today. Still a shame their site can't cope with the traffic when no doubt there are horticulturalists and farmers who would really like to see the detailed maps etc...
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It was pretty cold this morning. I reckon the snowline was around 350m? Winds picking up again and it's still cold, 4.5°C at the moment. Patches of blue through the upper level clouds, sun breaking through at times, and no precipitation all morning.
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The change arrived around 6am bringing showers with it and strong gusty SW wind, looks to be on the clear out there now which in a way is good.
Also looks like a few thundery showers around North Otago,South Canterbury throwing out a few strikes in the last 30 minutes or so.
Not surprised to hear about the snow down south this morning, great stuff bring us some photo's please.
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Snowing steadily in Thornbury for the last 30 minutes , settling, 1-2cm on the ground . Temp 1.8 degrees
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Looking very unstable now CU forms towering up all over the place with dark bases and a few showers developing.
The clouds are really swirling quite fast sort of going South against Westerly I believe of which the wind now is.
Few strikes on the tracker abit further south, something tells me we might see some good hail showers later on and maybe some thunder.
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just had some hail here in a heavy squally shower...
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Defintely brewing here in ChCh...been running around Hagley Park for the last hour in a NE breeze with dark heavy shower cloud really developing well to the south and over the peninsula. Soem sporadic light hail fell as a sun shower a few minutes ago just as I came back in.

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Got some Cbs popping up NNW way from Hamilton.
But it will seem like they will just die as there is soo much wind around
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Had a station record low barometer last night of 970.9 hpa. Looking very black to the south at the moment. Could be in for some more rain I think. :D
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You should hear some thunder soon Gary as there is lightning going on in parts of South Canterbury at the moment with the entrance of the first trough.
Just been out localally in the open to get some pics of the clouds its looking very thundery :D .
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Hail! Not the watery type wither, stones up to a cm.

Now sleet.
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Just starting to blow really hard out from the SW here in Riccarton, looks like the shower activity might be heading away from us out to sea and over the peninsula, as predicted by metservice
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GODDAMN! Had a 'large rotating gust' (gustnado?) Go through us at CPIT Sullivan campus and head down Ensors road... No funnel from cloud overhead though...
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Flakes again here in Dunnos (finally). Down to sea level but gone pretty quick. Went around the back of Dunedin mostly
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Very strange day...the change has come through with much promise and no delivery so far.

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Change has come through not as strong as when i chased it up Johns rd then decided to turn around again.
Looks like storms now firing all over the place south of Christchurch even down near Invercargill.
I sure have been impressed with the height of the clouds today incrediable, no precipitation here yet.
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Lots of sferics on radio now. Suspect storm out to sea around BP..

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Chilly 6.5C at Jeff's station - unseasonable considering the sun is shining. Dark clouds about this afternoon, but only a few spits so far in central Chch. Timaru, by contrast apparently got alot of hail earlier in afternoon - reported as snow by some Trademe posters, not suprising as it was only 4C at 1pm there.
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Report of a Tornado in Parklands on the Stuff website!
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From stuff.co.nz:

A suspected tornado has ripped through the Christchurch suburb of Parklands.

The twister has knocked over trees and ripped down fences on Queenspark Drive.

Residents heard a loud noise about 3pm and rushed out to see the damage.

One eyewitness said he heard a loud noise and thought the walls of his house would be blown in.

No-one was hurt but there were numerous reports of damage.
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Interesting to hear about the Tornado certainly conditions are ideal for one i would think too.
Just had a shower of hail and sleet with another cell lining me up to the W-SW.
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Re: Wintry blast 4-6 November

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The lower clouds were 'very rotary' around that time too out here at West Melton, but nothing came of it, sadly or good depending on which way you look at it. :smile: :(

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