Queens Birthday Weekend Low

[GraemeWi]

Colder upper air coming in now with cbs out west.

Spreading down pretty fast... looking to the North-West from Henderson

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Very stormy now here in Christchurch with gale force conditions and driving rain. I see the symbol for Christchurch is now the wind symbol too.

[melja]

Lol must be some disappointed people on here from chch with the snow not even coming close
Spent the weekend camping at lake sumner between arthurs and lewis pass, fine warm sat, cloudy sun, heavy rain overnight sun with the snow only making it to around 900-1000m with the lake at 500m.
Just cloud today with some blue patches and no wind so not a bad weekend in the end.
Pictures are on the phone so bad quality.

[Tornado Tim]

Those Cb's I can see all the way from here
Looking at the Radar they will head into the Waikato

[jamie]

Ohhh western skyline looks awesome with huge Cb's coming in.

[snowstormwatcher]

Very stormy now here in Christchurch with gale force conditions and driving rain. I see the symbol for Christchurch is now the wind symbol too.

Not stormy here just overcast with a light westerly may get some more rain overnight.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Metservice showing LeBons Bay at 100km/h winds there at the moment. Average winds of 40km/h here gusting much higher.

[Manukau heads obs]

very nice banding structure with this approaching CB!
from horizon to horizon, in a big arc!

61 knot winds here early this morning

[Chris Raine]

Another wet day in Oamaru. Ground is sodden and cannot absorb anymore rain thus 40mm = lots of surface flooding, closed roads and slips. Civil Defence on standby all day , rain easing now . Been windy too , 25-35 kt gusts though out day.. Temp now 6 degrees . Hopefully a break in this wet weather so the ground can dry out .

[tich]

Wet all the way coming back from BP to Chch, plus some sleet at Hilltop. (about 4.15pm) Large ponds of water on farmland again.

[Dean.]

6 hour trip from Wanaka to Ashburton this afternoon.Two hours to drive over the Lindis Pass with 30-40cm of snow.Well over 25cm of snow at Tekapo as well.

[Richard]

6 hour trip from Wanaka to Ashburton this afternoon.Two hours to drive over the Lindis Pass with 30-40cm of snow.Well over 25cm of snow at Tekapo as well.

Thats a truck load of snow Deano,we really miss all the weather this weekend though the wind is getting up a bit now.

[Storm Struck]

Lol must be some disappointed people on here from chch with the snow not even coming close
Spent the weekend camping at lake sumner between arthurs and lewis pass, fine warm sat, cloudy sun, heavy rain overnight sun with the snow only making it to around 900-1000m with the lake at 500m.
Just cloud today with some blue patches and no wind so not a bad weekend in the end.
Pictures are on the phone so bad quality.

Coldest air coming tonight as the cold front moves up the South Island, which would be about Timaru area at the moment.
Can see it on the sattelite maps, with the snow level dropping tonight sleet/hail look likly and into tomorrow morning atleast.
Nice photos though ive never been to lake sumner but plan on going there at some stage, wouldnt be a bad winters trip.
Rain has picked up in the last hour with some quite steady falls and strong gusty southerly winds, as i mentioned above the reason for this is the rain band sitting to the south of Christchurch today has been shunted northwards by the incoming cold surge.
Down to 6.8C now and dropping.

[snowstormwatcher]

6 hour trip from Wanaka to Ashburton this afternoon.Two hours to drive over the Lindis Pass with 30-40cm of snow.Well over 25cm of snow at Tekapo as well.

looked snowy out burkes pass/tekapo way from here didnt realise the snow was deep through.

[Tornado Tim]

It bucketing down here up 35mm/hr!

[David]

It bucketing down here up 35mm/hr!

seems much of the rain from these shower bands has been concentrating on waikato and leaving Auckland alone...I see Matangi has 38mm from yesterday and today, only 13mm here.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I wish people would stop saying LOL as I find that annoying

JohnGaul
NZThS

[Michael]

Showers will come after the change as convection up the coast over the rather warm sea.

It bucketing down here up 35mm/hr!

seems much of the rain from these shower bands has been concentrating on waikato and leaving Auckland alone...I see Matangi has 38mm from yesterday and today, only 13mm here.

[Talbotm]

Can some one tell me why there is snow in the central plateau above 600m yet south to the wairarapa doesnt seem to be even mentioned. I would have thought with a snow level of 400m in marlbourgh to 600m in taihape we would get some to about 500m???

Can someone answer this at all??

[Michael]

It probably a critical southerly,Ruapehu district is more exposed to the westerly in the southely,more SW there wheres Rimataka Waiarapa could have the SI sheltering it,someone else can alaborate as this is only my view.

Can some one tell me why there is snow in the central plateau above 600m yet south to the wairarapa doesnt seem to be even mentioned. I would have thought with a snow level of 400m in marlbourgh to 600m in taihape we would get some to about 500m???

Can someone answer this at all??

[Dean.]

The colder surge down over Southland at the moment may bring some low level snow flurries early tommorrow.
There was no snow lying below 500 metres in our 400k trip though the central SI today.

[Manukau heads obs]

Can some one tell me why there is snow in the central plateau above 600m yet south to the wairarapa doesnt seem to be even mentioned. I would have thought with a snow level of 400m in marlbourgh to 600m in taihape we would get some to about 500m???

Can someone answer this at all??

already been answered above

[Fujita Phil]

A couple of hail showers here this evening. Clear at the moment with a nice 1.7C

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Fine-ing up now so that is the last of this weather for this WE.
Could be a shower or two in the morning.

JohnGaul
NZThS

[mikestormchaser]

typical icy chain showers i see moving in now, the temps dropped now to, currently 4.6C