Tornado Tim wrote:Heck! that Cb passing over me hit hard!!!
The Red/Purple on the radar hit directly Matangi! giving a rain rate up to 202mm/hr!!!!
The Weather Station started beeping
a jump from 3.0mm to 7.2mm in a matter of around 2 minutes!!!
A matter of being in the right place at the right time, there, Tim
I see it's very active out there. Yeah Right!
MetService have dropped all their 'thundery' terms from their forecasts.
I noticed that Karen was using the word tonight as if it was just normal to say that. ?
I prefer to use the term "rain with a chance of a flash of sheet lightning" as some people may not hear the thunder, but anyway, back on topic. it's clear and fine at the moment with a northerly. Some sferics recorded but according to the tracker, out to the east of here?
Here's a photo I took this evening looking west from here. just after 5pm.
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Just frosty here again tonight its a SW system so its only going to be fine here and after all this cloudy weather in the last month or more FINE is bloody good
Finally managed to get on here couldnt all morning.
Well that front had abit more punch than i expected in the end, looks like it developed some convective deeper clouds as it hit land from Timaru northwards.
The front ran into freezing temperatures so places inland would have got snow first up no rain beforehand, up to a good 3-4cm looks to have settled around Methvan.
It was 2C when the front hit here bringing strong winds rain and some sleet, no snow though like other areas reported.
Ashburton had snow this morning and even reports from Amberley as well, so it did manage to fall to near sea level.
Clearing now but looks like another swipe tomorrow afternoon/evening, snow will be about 300m though maybe some hail in the showers.
Had some sleet between Chch and Akaroa at low levels, and flakes above about 250m (most of the snow had passed by about noon when I was over Hilltop); snow settled above about 300-350m. Just partly cloudy now.
I don't know if it snowed here overnight as I was asleep, which I normally do at night-time, but the thermometer did drop below zero prior to the overnight rain which could of had some sleety particles in it. Surely it was cold enough as it remained about 2C for much of the morning and into the afternoon before the cloud cleared away.
Thanks anyway Foggy for fixing/mentioning about the outage problem this morning. Yes I got the same message.
Richard wrote:Interesting that Amberley had snow which is near sea level and at 175m there was only a 2min rain shower here.
Only a few flakes in amongst the sleety showers here this morning, you certainly couldnt say it snowed. The very small hail showers were much more fun.
The heavier precipitation moved off the coast around ChCh.
Sleet turned to heavy snow for about 50 minutes around 10am here then quickly cleared from the south.
I only noticed one dosing of icy showers which was about 8sih. But then turned out to be a very cool crisp afternoon. Currently on 1.6C and has been dropping pretty quick
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Didn't really get the strong winds expected here today, maybe because it has been WSW instead of SW....who knows...nevertheless there is still a cold windchill this evening!