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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 :D =D>
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 :smile:

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and Queenstown now back to snow overnight and first thing tomorrow. :crazy:
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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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Still possibility of light snow /sleet showers in Christchurch later this morning ,but only light and brief ;)
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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 _b
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had a nice hail shower here about half an hour ago :-o
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Had a brief period of heavy snow here this morning,approx 1cm settled on the ground on the west side of Ashburton.
Around 5cm in Methven.
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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.
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Fine here now had some snow this morning around 1 to 2cm settled melting fast now the sun is out.
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Winds Building up WSW now equal to yesterdays highest speed,should be more than the 70kmph winds reported yesterday by the time they go SW.
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Looks like a thunderstorm off the coast near the lower North Island too with that front, even abit of purple on the 1pm radar on the leading edge.
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Was some snow in Temuka around 9am, didn't settle though. Seadown a little up the road had some snow settle on the ground.
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finally able to get on :)

Snowed in Kirwee from 8amish-midday, nothing settled as it was wet and only the odd shower. Currently clear skies but very cold.
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Nothing here in Dunedin, just blue skies, a few clouds around the horizon and a cold southerly
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Snow here from around 8am until 1pm - settled on ground - perhaps 1cm-2cm. Sun now out, blue skies and most of the snow has melted.
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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.
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Had some snow showers which lasted for about 10-15mins earlier on down here in Invercargill, happened at least twice throughout until about 1.30pm
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Interesting that Amberley had snow which is near sea level and at 175m there was only a 2min rain shower here.
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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.

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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. 8)
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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.
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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 :eek:
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flurries for Hamner this afternoon, like this cam :smile:
http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... prings.asp
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Interesting that Amberley had snow which is near sea level and at 175m there was only a 2min rain shower here.
Also the heavier precipitation would have been near the coast so a lower snow level with that
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spwill wrote:flurries for Hamner this afternoon, like this cam :smile:
http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... prings.asp
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Interesting that Amberley had snow which is near sea level and at 175m there was only a 2min rain shower here.
Also the heavier precipitation would have been near the coast so a lower snow level with that
Yer it seemed to have gone around the hills more than here on the Amuri plains.
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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!
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