Heavy Rain/ Snow South Island 7-9 August

[melja]

Yellow and blue are light to moderate on the rain radar

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Yellow and blue are light to moderate on the rain radar

Yeah but although blue says moderate on the radar it often delivers heavier stuff than what is falling. The drops however are big which the beam seems to pick up on sometimes.

11am radar shows this over the city with yellow here and blue elsewhere.

[joecam]

Just returned from Porters Pass about 4cm of snow on the road Very narrow band falling. 2/3rds of the way up the road the Snow has settled. Its currently snowing. Temp was 1c. However Temp at Sheffield wad 6c.
It is raining hard though.

[joecam]

Parked on the Lyndon Coleridge Road

[Richard]

That's interesting Joe,the snow level is far higher than what been forecasted because Springfield must be at least 500-600m .

Radar is not even showing the rainfall rate up this way,seems to be only reaching as far north as Waipara.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Metservice going for snow to 200m now

[melja]

No snow at hanmer or even arthurs pass
But the colder air is not here yet but will come when the rain slows as is often the case.

[Richard]

No snow at hanmer or even arthurs pass

On the webcam for Hanmer you can see it trying to snow there but not settling

[melja]

Ashley bridge closed again.

[Richard]

Might as well just wash the bloody thing way and be done with it

[melja]

I think so too Richard, heavy wet sleet now mixed in with the heavy showers with a sharp drop in temp also.

[tich]

Wet on Banks Peninsula, with a little sleet at Hilltop. (about 11.30am) Can't see anything above about 500m. Some surface flooding between Motukarara and Little River, same area that good flooding and slips just over a month ago.

[trickytiger]

Just heard there is heavy snow in fairlie and that they have no power at the moment, which is probably why we havn't had an update from there on the forum.

[Dean.]

Just been over the Rakaia gorge,snow settled down to around 400 metres,Sleet in Methven.

Snow level seems to be slowly moving down the plains!

[Richard]

Just been over the Rakaia gorge,snow settled down to around 400 metres,Sleet in Methven.

Snow level seems to be slowly moving down the plains!

Yer i think so too,down to 4C now with a bit of sleet mix in

[Dean.]

Just had a heavy shower with sleet here in Ashy!

[MoorfNZ]

Still hosing down here in Waddington - it hasn't stopped for over 12 hours - torrential at times. No sign of snow..

What are the chances of it getting down to 300m - and when is it now expected?!

[Dean.]

That thick band of cloud off the Canterbury coast about 200-300 km out looks interesting,moving in an SE/E direction towards the coast.May bring the snow level right down tonight?
Reports of sleet turning to snow in Methven now.

[gllitz]

Just got back from our ski trip up to Porters and staying at Castle Hill...had an absolutely FANTASTIC time yesterday...weather up the mountain was suprisingly warm but packed it in last night around 6. Lots of rain/snow most of the night, but nothing settling...Just as we were leaving, though, was a VERY different story. We left Castle Hill around 11:15 or so and ended up having to wait at a checkpoint near Lake Lyndon for about 15 minutes while they helped a bus get unstuck with a grater...turned out to be a Contiki bus. Once we got going, wasn't too bad until we got near the top of the pass...VERY scary going down, let me tell ya...snowed the entire time until we got just outside of Springfield, then it just turned over to all rain rather quickly. Lots of surface flooding, too, even in Darfield proper along the road...can't tell you what is happening now, just what we saw then on the way back.

Will post some photos later!

Cheers,
Glenn

[FIREFROG]

Must be a lot of rain about.. The Fire Service are attending several flooding jobs plus a landslide in akaroa ( Hempleman Dr) We have now had 37.3mm- rain temp slowly dropping , currently its 6.5. Hethcote river along Aynsley Tce is very high another hour before high tide ,it may spill over

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

25mm from this system, started around 3am going by radars. Strong Southerlies and driving rain. Moderate falls in the past hour. Wonder how much more rain we will get.

[tich]

I can now see a light dusting of white above about 550m. Quite heavy rain continuing here.

[MoorfNZ]

Torrential rain continues in Waddington. There has been no let up at all.

[03Stormchaser]

Been in Darfield most of the day, heavy rain there with surface flooding on the road on the way back.

[Skywatcher]

Just back from a wee drive to Windwhistle (about 400m asl). I also noticed the change from rain to sleet then snow happened very quickly - the thermometer was still reading 5.6°C at the sawmill near Hororata (200m) then dropped rapidly to -0.4°C by the time I stopped.

A few photos: