Unsettled Period Late September 2009

[MoorfNZ]

Snow shower stopped.

[gllitz]

Temperature taking a dive here too from 9C to 5C now, is this advective snow perhaps.
Check out how quickly it set in over Hanmer Springs on this webcam, looks like it just started straight off as snow no rain.
Click on view the last 10 images.
http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... prings.asp

It is in all likelyhood warm advective snow...we won't see any, but inland areas (as posted) will, for sure...

[TonyT]

Temperature taking a dive here too from 9C to 5C now, is this advective snow perhaps.
Check out how quickly it set in over Hanmer Springs on this webcam, looks like it just started straight off as snow no rain.
Click on view the last 10 images.
http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... prings.asp

I dont think thats snow Jason - the temp shows as 8deg.

[Razor]

I just spoke to someone in Palmerston North who said he can see snowflakes out his window

Crazy

[spwill]

I dont think thats snow Jason - the temp shows as 8deg.

The 8C might be wrong given it was 5C at kaikoura at 3pm.

[Razor]

Currently having a sleet/ hail/ graupel shower here in down town ChCh. A really good one too!

[Razor]

After all that it looks like a giant fizzer here. Partly clear skies, warming up, no wind. This event looks like its been overplayed a little, at least here

It looks like all the moisture suddenly disappeared out of the system.

[MoorfNZ]

The noise on my roof confirms it didn't fizzle out too much here...

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Pouring out there at the moment, hail laced in it as well.

After all that it looks like a giant fizzer here. Partly clear skies, warming up, no wind. This event looks like its been overplayed a little, at least here

It looks like all the moisture suddenly disappeared out of the system.

The models suggest that tomorrow will see more rainfall for us than today. I think the band will grow a little and intenify somewhat, nothing major but more pesistent rain for the large of tomorrow. Looks like some decent rain in a few days as well.

[Storm Struck]

Very isolated showers but also very steady intermixed with graupel/sleet at times.
This suggests the snow level is much lower than the forecast 500m come off it MS , if its still this cold tomorrow there could be some reasonable snow falls inland.
RE: Tony's comment the webcams from 4pm definatly showed snow flakes falling in front of it, the temperature will be wrong i would say.

[Manukau heads obs]

hazy here, but probably just salt spray, this morning
but my satellite internet connection (low in the sky) has been very flakey since yesterday afternoon.....must be the dust (as heavy rain does affect it too)

[NZstorm]

Yes it is dust. Auckland looks a bit like one of those polluted northern hemisphere cities this morn. Airport metar calling it dust.

NZAA 241900Z 04007KT 7000 SCT022 BKN035 14/14 Q1000 TEMPO 4000 SHRA FEW030CB RMK DUST

[Manukau heads obs]

can just make out a reddish tinge now , against the hills....if I use my imagination...LOL
the rain we have had with this shower line has probably cleaned it up a bit here, compared to further east, in front of this 2ndd front...i.e the dust is between the 2 fronts

[Michael]

Any photos too much cloud here all morning.

[Nev]

Moved the above dust comments to here, simply because, although the dust originated from Oz, these obs are very much NZ related and coincide with earlier discussions in this thread.

[Brassnz]

Only 15mm rain in the last 24hrs. It felt like more than that. As for the dust from Aus, it was very obvious on the car's windscreen this morning, as it was around 11pm last night. The windscreen had some pronounced brown streaks running down it, and whilst driving thru rain on the way to work there was still enough dust coming down with the rain to give the same effect as if following close behind a large truck on a wet road.

[Michael]

Yes its very hazy here now,looks milky like fog or rain coming across the harbour but the suns out.Camrea wont do justice as it low pixels.

[snowstormwatcher]

only a bit of drizzle here no snow or decent rain only 1.5mm so far

[Nev]

Yes, a very pronounced haze in the air here now that clouds have cleared - even smells sort of musty.
A mere 4mm here yesterday compared to Akld Aero's 17.6mm.

[David]

Can't notice anything here, apart from worse visibility than normal (which may be due to the very high humidity)

[Storm Struck]

I woke up at various times of the morning to heavy rain on the roof and i mean fair chucking it down, rain gauge doesnt do justice as most of the rain is horizontal due to the wind.
Strong gusty NE this morning with occasional dolops of showers but intermixed with drizzle.

[DT-NZ]

Goodmorning,

I took this pic about half an hour ago... I do not know if it is dust from the recent dust storm in Australia... it's very orange.. anyway posting it.

Currently 17.4 C out... hazy, overcast skies here in the bay area.

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[DT-NZ]

Cb's that came through the bay area this morning @ 08:20hrs.

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edit reason/s: deleted fog image and u/loaded corrected cloud pic below.

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[Manukau heads obs]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2901968 ... s-Taranaki

[Manukau heads obs]

similar reports of orange dust left behind after the rain drops evaporate, from Taranaki