System 9-10th October affecting central/eastern areas

[drew]

Well, if your wondering where all the bad weather is..... its here!!!

It is absolutly HOWLING outside... incredibly strong winds with massive gusts!
Lots of rain in the last few hours, cold sleety yuk...

I wont be surprised if a few trees come down in the night if they havent already...

Sure wont make getting out of bed at 4am any easier in the morning LOL...

Drew

(did I mention the wind..?? )

[mikestormchaser]

Come on weve had boring weather all year except for Januarys thunderstorms .

Yes indeedy!! January was fantastic! dont worry.. shouldn't be concentrating on snow now anyways its thunderstorm season coming and we have already had a small storm!!

[Fujita Phil]

Light hail shower through Dunedin just now, still cold air heading up the country

[Manukau heads obs]

NP rain radar shows nicely the low center over the King country
(but with a associated low to rotate around the original low, and roll up and over the auckland area....as the models alluded too...dang I hate it when they work out)
SE movement slowed down alot
not surprised to hear of a howling SEr in Taranaki!

(I see M/S have now issued warnings about that....but it was obvious it was needed like 6 hours ago if you ask me (they did have a watch about it though))

[mattyj46]

Pretty average conditions to say the least in New Plymouth for the Taranaki Auckland game.

[Michael]

Reckon it be quite a cold day in Auckland tomorrow perhaps 12 or 13 max.

[Storm Struck]

Wintry type showers developing now going by the latest rain radar, so perhaps hail/graupel bit of sleet even just depends how well the showers develope.
Glad i havnt put the tomatos in the glasshouse yet as i bet there will be a good frost early Sunday morning.

[mikestormchaser]

Yeh showers do look more evident on the radar now, more or so inland atm but should move more coastal as night goes on.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Wintry showers passing through. Just 4degees now and some hail before. Looks like showers becoming more frequent, some snow for top of port hills looks likely now.

Heaviest shower of the day now. Pelting down with some sleet too!

YAY 1000 Posts!

[MoorfNZ]

3.15am - it's been raining all day - had heavy falls this evening, some sleety. Since 2am we've had several heavy snow showers, some driven by a gusty southerly. Around 3am it stopped and only now has it started snowing again, light at present.

No ground cover remaining and with current 'flurries' I don't expect to awake to a white world.

The Malvern Hills had a good covering this afternoon - I think with the amount of sleety rain we've had here, there may have been some good snow falling around Springfield.

As I finish this post, it is snowing heavily again!! (3.21am)

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

The place is covered with hail after a 5 minute downpoor, strictly hail. Only 3 degrees as well.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Victoria Park has a light dusting of snow, was a good snow shower at the top of the Hackthorne Road too.

[Manukau heads obs]

dang I hate it when the models are right, LOL
dumbell shaped low is rolling over the top of the NI
expecting a strong southerly to arrive here soon!

[jamie]

had a 55km gust as the southerly arrived at my parents.

[Michael]

Southerly just arriving now.Probably soon thousands of needles too

[Manukau heads obs]

more of a SE wind here than a southerly....
lots of heavy rain showers in the waikato too I see
interesting

update: temperature now dropped to 8.5C here....looking forward to warmer temeratures next week!
been a miserable school holidays overall

[NZstorm]

looking forward to warmer temeratures next week!
been a miserable school holidays overall

Yes been terrible. Weather gets milder mid week but no big warm up coming and maybe a colder mass coming back onto NZ next weekend.

[Michael]

One of the ECLs must be over us,W.A had simlar weather with a high in the indian ocean a few weeks back.must given them a miserable period too.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Sleeting here at the moment. Some nice flakes in this shower.

[tich]

Couldn't see any snow on Port Hills when I last looked about 20 minutes ago, so must've all melted. Light rain showers continuing to pass over centra Chch.
Haven't heard any reports from central NI, apart from Waiouru resident reporting snow in the town this morning on Trademe forum.

[Richard]

Last of the snow has nearly melted away,tipped out 44mm from the rain gauge which will set this area up well for the remainder of spring.

[rawdon]

Hi Richard.. Upper Hutt... I took 52mm out of the gauge yesterday and a further 24 today ... the place is waterlogged..and cold with the dry southerly blowing at present ...

take care .. Steve

[Michael]

Just of interest on Hires this southerly goes right up past New Caledonia and only starts to curve into trades past 15° S