Cold Surge to End May [North Island]

[DT-NZ]

no wind - observing more rain bands passing through over the bay out east.

[jamie]

very very dark and heavy rain in Hamilton at the moment. Already 5mm out of this rain so far.

[David]

Looks like the front has passed already...only 6.5mm rain here.

[Dale]

Front?

[jamie]

10mm in horshamdowns

[kaimaikid]

Only had 1.5mm here so far

am praying for a lot more tomorrow when the big chill hits

[NZstorm]

700mb (3000m) temps for NZ for 3pm Sunday. I quite like the 700mb charts for these wintry events. The minus 15C line sort of represents the area of possible instability. The whole system sharpens up a bit over the North Island in the afternoon. I would say the Hawkes Bay/Gisborne hills/ranges will bear the brunt of this snowfall. Will be interesting to see if snow can make it through to Taupo (elevation 400m) which is in a sheltered area.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

i see whakatane has had 15mm and 10 mm respectively in the past 2 hours. 25mm in last 2 hours. Is there some thunderstorm activity around there? Or just very stead persistent heavy rain?

[tgsnoopy]

Nothing heard or seen from here. Not much to report really, some reasonably heavy showers passed through, but were only short lived. Still above 10° C outside.

[Manukau heads obs]

i see its only 2C in Taihape
will be snowing on the hills there now

[Tornado Tim]

Temps are looking fine here atm, DP's Remaining constant with the Temp as well.
Very very Sunny here as well.

[Michael]

Fine and sunny here with little wind,probably go BeeBop later though looking at the map.Not cold either.

[spwill]

Yes, a lovely morning in Auckland.
Not much on the Sat pic at the moment but the Cb cloud SE of HawkesBay/Gisborne will continue to develop as it moves north.

[NZstorm]

I love the Met Service convection forecast for the east of the North Island today, Thunderstorms/Snow!

[fairskies]

Good morning all.
I'm a newbie but love weather, very bad preferably its more interesting.
Well the Southerly hit here just before 6am this morning with heavy rain and a rising wind for a while.
At the moment we seem to be getting squalls coming through Whitby every 30 mins or so with heavy rain and a gusty Southerly.
I live on top of a hill here, not sure of elevation though, perhaps 100 metres above sea level.
Our last squall came through at 9.45am and it started with small hail and progressed to a good sized snow flake - about 1cm I'd say, looked like a blizzard as the wind blew it around, none has settled as the ground is wet and the squall lasted about 10 mins. I haven't seen snow up here since 1995.
Anyway as I said I love the weather, I'm not technical but I have lived in Wellington long anough to know whats coming and going.

Cheers.

[dazza99]

Snowing in Churton Park Wellington as well

[DT-NZ]

Good morning all.
I'm a newbie but love weather,

Good morning fairskies

Your not alone I'm a newbie to and love learning about weather, I understand - I too am not very good with using correct weather terminology, but, I am learning and I think I sound quite impressive when I use weather words & terminology around my family and friends ie; sferics, convection, CAPE, DP's &c... awesome - OT (off topic) I know, but, welcome to NZWF - look forward to reading more of your weather report's from your area/region. take care.

edit : correct typo error - forwarding to forward

[Manukau heads obs]

heavy shower lines, could be some hail, out to the west of the NI are slowly getting closer, I see....

[Wildland]

Temperature at Tawa, north of Wgton, hovering around 4-5 degrees for last few hours.
We had hail on and off for about 10 minutes from 10:40 and it lay about on the lawn until after 11.
We are now enjoying brief sunny spells.

It's on again, off again sort of weather....
No doubt there's more in store.

[Myself]

Graupel falling in Wellington city.

[jamie]

got some high cloud moving over now after a very nice morning. Not sure if its cloud from the southerly or the stuff moving in from the west.

[jamie]

Now looking very dark to the south. rain cant be far away now. hope we get some hail.

EDIT: i should add im still at the parents place just north of Hamilton

[DT-NZ]

Wind has picked up slightly from the south, it's been a relatively warm, sunny day in this part of the country, big chunky clouds coming in from the west, temp has dropped it's cooler.

[Wildland]

Hail showers continuing at intervals in Tawa, mostly small stuff.
Near pea-sized hail in a good fall at 13:30.
Temperature still lurking about 5 to 6 degrees.
In between we get welcome, but brief, sunny spells.

One report of snow showers on Tawa Flat around 11:15 this morning.

[jamie]

Im going to have to break out the instruction manual for the weather consol shortly. The beeping is driving me mad while im doing work. Alarm is set for 60km/h and its going off every couple of seconds at the moment. largest gust so far has been 68.5km/h. That wind is bitterly cold too.