Big Antarctic Low 16-23rd September 2010

[Storm Struck]

1.4C and its snowing here on and off more sleet than anything but definate flakes coming down

[Dean.]

Rain/sleet quickly moving north.Just overcast and cold here.2.7 degrees.

[Manukau heads obs]

just got woken up at 2am by a huge clap of thunder!
good predicting NZStorm

update : woken this time at 5am by 63 knot winds (116kmh) howling through as the front approaches!
looks like the kaipara area got a good squall line and lots of lightning....

[Talbotm]

Have had about an inch of snow here in wellington down to 300m overnight. curently 2.0deg snowing.

[Richard]

Snowed here last night and we are at 175m,see what i mean Talbotm,a lot lower than the 400m predicted

[Talbotm]

Yea you got that right richard was abit unexpected. I see they finally put a road snowfall warning out for the rimutakas at 4am. Bit late by then i would have thourgh.t

[RWood]

At this stage I have heard no report of snow around the city hills. Awaiting more information.

[melja]

A light dusting is all that is on my truck this morning so it must of cleared quick, was hard out snowing at 11.45pm when i went to bed.

[jamie]

what a wild ride it has been during the night

[NZstorm]

Looking at the lightning data, yes, looks like a fairly decent thunderstorm over western Northland (Kaipara) early this morning and weaker activity down the western NI coast.

[Michael]

Its actually wilder here now than last night.

what a wild ride it has been during the night

[David]

Certainly no squalls here...I'm quite surprised the wind is only gusting 50km/h actually, maybe it will pick up through the day

[Michael]

Its making the windows make noise in gusts plus already since 7am more twigs than friday night and windows condensated.

[Avalanche]

It snowed to 300 metres in Kaitoke, Upper Hutt but didnt really settle was a mild dusting to be honest there is a significant amount of snow above the 400metres an above mark, Well the metservice got most of it right , but could have put out a warning on Rimutaka hill road alittle earlier than 4am this morning. I did think it was a little odd to say snow down to 400 metres an not have a road snowfall warning out for it. Looks like its clearing now, is there more snow coming for the Lower North Island tonight?

[Talbotm]

The isobar lines look good for another blast tonight but will have to wait to see what the metservice put up later. Snow melted pretty quick and sun is out now. Getting just odd shower but very few and far between now.

[ricky]

small hail here with the current squally shower

[Vertigo]

yep some good hail and quite a gusty squall!

[David]

Quite a good squall that one, gusts up to 69km/h
I see the St Heliers station got a squally gust of 89km/h earlier on!

[Dale]

Have had 3 really big squalls here since around 4am, the one just on 8am really shook the house, ended up doing a friday nighter and opening the east facing windows to equalize the pressure.. this place is solid as but was still rockin & rollin.. im over it all, you can go away now please mr superstorm..

As much as i love you..

[Shepherds Valley WX]

Morning lads, reasonable snow on the low Maungaraki hills to the East of Carterton this morning. Wife was turned back at Featherston by Police advising a 4 hour closure on Rimutaka Hill Road.... we should have checked first! Also, good dusting of snowto low levels on the western foothils of the Tararua Range, especially around the Mount Holdsworth foothills.

[Michael]

Agree if were going to have something how about some decent thunder/lightning activity or better snow otherwise a decent stable (and stationary) anticyclone just east of us
the other comment about the rimutaka hill road closed probably be the same time to go through the manawatu gorge and through Lvin to the capital.

Have had 3 really big squalls here since around 4am, the one just on 8am really shook the house, ended up doing a friday nighter and opening the east facing windows to equalize the pressure.. this place is solid as but was still rockin & rollin.. im over it all, you can go away now please mr superstorm..

As much as i love you..

[Manukau heads obs]

getting big gusts from the SW here too now, 50 knot gust at times...
DP now only 2 here

massive swell on the west coast now!

[tich]

Dusting on the Port Hills above about 400m, shouldn't last long in today's sunshine.

[Dale]

Just had 2 minutes of solid hail over here.. biggest were about pea sized but the rest splattered all over the glass.. nice one!

[Tornado Tim]

That SW is absolutely freezing!

squall line passing through.....