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Re: Polar blast lines up for spring

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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Just had a heavy sleet shower, almost a snow shower. Will be the last by the looks of it on radar
Thats what i thought a few hours ago at 5pm with the radar looking like it was going to clear, but these chain showers seem to develope as they hit land through that channel from birdlings northwards.
Just had another hail shower smaller stones but the hail is accumulating nicly and not melting fast.
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Nice gallery of hail and storm pics from Wellington, plus some rather interesting comments about 'snow in Dunedin and Christchurch' in this developing report from Stuff... ;-)

'Snow falls as wintry blast moves north'
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spwill wrote:A Thunderstorm for Wellington, if it was over Ak or Chch there would have been half a dozen reports on the forum by now. ;-)
Only a half dozen?? :D

Noticed a gust front coming up from the south today from my desk at work, but once came up toward Bp it broke up.
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Westerlies arnt particulary that strong here,shake your hands as violently as you cam envisage and that the sort of wind SW we get here and imagine 5-6 50 year old pine trees spilling out pollen seeds plus needles and sticking on the condensated buckling windows and whistling in gusts o_O
David wrote:Looks like the SW change is arriving in Auckland now, showers have just arrived here, and the wind at the airport is SW 48kph gusting 65kph. No strong winds here yet (still Westerly)
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Come up here n the hill then, no pine needles but the roof is about to lift.. mean ass wind atm.
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Just had some hail here.
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Lightning with audible thunder here at Auckland Airport, southwester gusting 40kts. Not as bad as Wellington earlier with 55kt southerly and thunderstorms nearby!
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Thunder here in Laingholm
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just saw a flash of lightning come from over the ranges in Hawkes Bay
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Sure is picking up here now, gusting up to 53km/h. I often record my highest gusts in a SW flow, still WSW here though. Will be interesting to see if any squalls come through tonight :smile:
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yes, heard that thunder here in central Auckland.
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I see it's still WSW in Grey Lynn too, yet it's SW at the airport, how odd :-k
I want to break my wind record but that won't be happening while the wind is WSW, LOL
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Heard thunder here ealier, some strong wind gusts around the same time, not much rain at my place.
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Will have the radio on tonight it will drown out the noise.Havent heard thunder but theres a general raquet.
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Have had no rain here since about 1745 - small hail shower on Blenheim Rd on way home from work - about 1720 !!
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Hail with a shower here just now
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It has mainly cleared away here now, could still be the odd shower but very coastal.
Not a bad blast in the end, here are some photos i took of the heavy hail shower around 6:30pm possibly the best we have had in awhile.
Also i was outside just before the full on hail arrived and the S-SW wind got quite strong gusty for a minute or so.
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Nev wrote:Nice gallery of hail and storm pics from Wellington, plus some rather interesting comments about 'snow in Dunedin and Christchurch' in this developing report from Stuff... ;-)

'Snow falls as wintry blast moves north'
I posted a reply to utterly refute the rubbish that was on there about it snowing in ChCh. It did nothing of the sort. Nothing anyhwere near it. Another example of the lazyness of reporting standards these days
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Sounds like a train tonight,unfortunately out there no locomotives to be seen. ;)
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Michael wrote:Sounds like a train tonight,unfortunately out there no locomotives to be seen. ;)
I loved those nights when I lived off Scenic Drive. It was like being back country in a hut somewhere, exhiliarating. Micheal- enjoy it.
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brief heavy shower with tiny hail just went through here, was really squally too!
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We've had small hail come through maybe half a dozen times tonight. No more thunder though.
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Razor wrote:
Nev wrote:Nice gallery of hail and storm pics from Wellington, plus some rather interesting comments about 'snow in Dunedin and Christchurch' in this developing report from Stuff... ;-)

'Snow falls as wintry blast moves north'
I posted a reply to utterly refute the rubbish that was on there about it snowing in ChCh. It did nothing of the sort. Nothing anyhwere near it. Another example of the lazyness of reporting standards these days
We had a snow shower here in rangiora so i have no problem believing that it snowed up in the hill areas of chch.
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have had a few showers tonight with hail in them

hearing some strong gusts come through. i just wish my station was working. could be getting 70+km/h winds i think in the gusts.
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What polar blast??

We had a few brief morning showers then cleared quickly.
Severe weather outlook suggesting a low possibility of heavy snow in a southeasterly Monday/Tuesday
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