Deepening low prediction/ cold outbreak Mid June

[Janos]

Octagon is surrounded by city buildings lots of foot traffic and car traffic.
It looks quite white none the less.

[Janos]

Check out the two Opoho web cams....the issue is snow on top of black ice which is causing all the mayhem plus a hilly city.

[NZstorm]

yeah, looks whiter now that day as broken. And I know from living in Dunedin that as you head up Stuart Street the snow quickly thickens up.

[borris89]

a good 2cm or so of snow here in central dunedin

[Razor]

A good clearance coming through ChCh at the moment.

[Ice Maiden]

Another snow shower just gone through Dunedin and more coming by the looks out to the SE. Treacherous underfoot.

[gopolks]

Clearing up quite nicely in chch, lots of blue sky in this part of town, any more bad stuff suppose to come in?

[Janos]

Looks like its finished down here as well.
Blue sky and sunshine.

[gllitz]

Well I'll be, Jimmy...Jase, you were right! Check out the Latest Tasman Sea map Issued at: 7:51 am 16 Jun 2009 NZST from the M/S...looks as though a wee upper level low DID form off the coast! Well done...good call! It looks like the second trough moving up the coast will affect us more than anything..we'll see...

[Razor]

Yes Glitz I got the feeling Jase was right as it was developing- it certainly came in against most predictions here just around midnight. The warming that preceeded it negated any snowfall other than accross the higher parts of BP and the Port Hills though.

I'm not sure we'll see much more action in ChCh today, although there is always the "chain shower" (I hate that naming convention!) possibility- but again I think its a bit too warm for lowest level snow.

[Storm Struck]

Yes that second trough which shows to the south at 6am will most likly more or so affect us, it will be motoring along too so possibly here by late morning.
In the meantime a little bit of warmth from the sun but not much as its nearly the soulstice.
Guess what MS is overloading again .

[southernthrash]

A light dusting of snow in Invercargill this morning, with a lot of black ice, the roads are certainly very slick.

Getting very cold outside, things have really started to freeze since 8am, and more light snow we get this morning won't be melting straight away, with more cloud rolling in off the sea.

[Razor]

Another one of those events that Gary used to tut tut about....I see its completely bypassed the Mackenzie Basin

[spwill]

Great to see snow on the Otago webcams. When did snow last fall so low in Dunedin, a couple of years back ? memory has gone
I see Wanaka got a dusting.
Sat pics suggests a crop of heavier wintry showers should reach Dunedin about mid morning, some clearing on the West Coast so you would think the showers would get into Chch, radar has them on track for BP atleast.

[gllitz]

Looks like a pretty good dusting to the Canty foothills off to the W and NW from my "perch on high" (ten stories up in CBD)...

[Janos]

Great to see snow on the Otago webcams. When did snow last fall so low in Dunedin, a couple of years back ? memory has gone
I see Wanaka got a dusting.
Sat pics suggests a crop of heavier wintry showers should reach Dunedin about mid morning, some clearing on the West Coast so you would think the showers would get into Chch, radar has them on track for BP atleast.

Last time i saw snow down the bay...was 2004.
That was a far more significant fall than this one.
Well watch with anticipation for the next wave of wintry showers.

[gllitz]

Looks to be some wintry precip moving into the southern and sw'ern suburbs from what I can see...

[southernthrash]

Another one of those events that Gary used to tut tut about....I see its completely bypassed the Mackenzie Basin

As these often do. Snow in the village at Mt Cook though, I am told. And webcams suggest that Queenstown and Wanaka have recieved modest snowfalls to lake level.

[GSVNoFixedAbode]

Had close to an inch of snow in Opoho this morning - probably more further up the hill for Phil. The few cars that have driven down to town have created a nice compact layer of ice.

Not a large volume of snow, but down to low levels for Dunedin!

[Storm Struck]

There's some beafier looking dark clouds moving in now, and a nice colourful looking CB inbehind it too.

[Janos]

Nice snow shower at the moment coming in from over the peninsula.

[Razor]

Can't see to the south from my office, but theres bright sunshine coming through here at the moment, and nothing but clear blue sky to the west.

[Razor]

And right on cue for that post- snow and sleet arrives with a bang

[Storm Struck]

Nice looking CB going over the Peninnsula right now probly part of that first trough.
See what happens in the next few hours with that next trough.
Edit. Ohh i see what ya mean Razor its actually alot bigger than i thought and closing in around to the S-SW now too.

[Ice Maiden]

That second crop of snow showers arrived in the last half hour, heavy at times and large flakes. Really coming down hard now. Traffic seems to be moving easier though, perhaps temps have increased a little.