Widespread Snow Event 14th-17th Aug

[Chris Raine]

Been raining in Oamaru since 5am , had 15mm , Still snowing heavily inland to 150 meters . Temp 5.4C Blowing 25 knots tho

[double_negative]

rain all day & snow all melted now. kids still had to stay home again, as school closed.

cabin fever!

[Dean.]

Temp dropping now with sleet falling

[Lawrence]

Thickness levels too high now for snow on low lying areas of Canterbury and will get rain from now as the high pushes in .Snow will reatreat to over 300m mark with sleet on the lower parts of the ranges.
Will be very cold tonight though but doubt we will have a very
severe frost unless we get clear patches tonight.Was'nt it brilliant though while it lasted.

[Richard]

Was'nt it brilliant though while it lasted.

Was a decent fall alright,would have to go back more than 20 years or more since there was a deeper fall.

[Manukau heads obs]

rain here, shower developing just to my north
temperature only 5.9C, and that is dropping slowly
will be falling as snow if you were high enough I would say

[Richard]

With darkness do you recon the temp might drop low enough for a few flakes Brian

[Orion]

Temperature fell further to 0.4 degrees at present; has been snowing well since around 2pm., perhaps half an inch in that 45 minutes. Visibility 100 metres. Pressure has risen. Humidity 76%.
Edit to add: Was that thunder again?

[Manukau heads obs]

5.0C here at 3pm and raining...but that is easing now.....dam cold for here for the time of year and time of day!!!!

[bmo]

same here but 4.5C thats how cold it was at 12:05am! with the hail...might get cold tonight!

[Brassnz]

Steady rain in Laingholm, with the odd lump of slushy, icy rain (sleet/graupel?). Not snow though. We are approx 75-80m AMSL.

[Manukau heads obs]

looking real black to my north....must be over the waitak ranges...someone should go for a drive up into them...might get some graupel/hail or even snow?

[David]

Wind has turned SE here, few showers about, only rain though. Temperature on the way down, 6.5C now

[Chris Raine]

Temp fallen here now 4.4C with showers of small hail

[Brassnz]

Rain stopped and temp feels to have warmed considerably in last 10 minutes. (Don't have thermometer, sadly.)

[DeanoA]

Snow falling heavy again in Hutt Valley. Started as sleety rain around an hour ago but temp has dropp ed from 6C to 2C and big flakes are now settling on the ground

[kiwisk8er]

The snow is back in Tawa but not settling yet. It's too wet.

[David]

Have just had heavy rain mixed with graupel and possibly what could have been sleet (tiny mushy bits of ice), followed by a heavy fall of hail.

[Storm Struck]

Been dry here much the afternoon with the activity sitting to the south mainly, temperature just starting to drop now down from 5.5C to 4.9C now.
That band is slowly moving northwards so it will be interesting to see what happens as its on perfect timing for night setting in.

[DeanoA]

Interesting 4PM Wellington radar.

http://www.metservice.com/national/maps ... ton-latest

Could someone explain - Is the heavey snow currently falling around Wellinton due to advection?

[Manukau heads obs]

4.5C and rain here....brrrrr...we might get some of that groupel like you did David....
but I see Ricky is on 8.8C and clearing

[David]

Too bad this shower line didn't hit this time yesterday Brian....probably would have lowered snow to near sea level

[vinodrinker]

I wish it would just either snow or stop raining. i gotta go running in 20 minutes
brrrrrr

[NZstorm]

tiny mushy bits of ice)

Thats snow pellets I think.

Todays 850mb temp 00Z NZWP was -4.7C, 700mb -16.8C.

[snowstormwatcher]

Stopped snowing here and looks to be clearing, Sleet/snow mix most of the day but nothings settled since 11am. Total of 7cm in town which is turning slushy now around 15-20cm above 400m.

Couple of pics from today.