General January Weather

[tich]

Snowing in Ranfurly according to Trademe forum poster. Only 4C in Oamaru at midnight. Would've been high 20s today before the southerly hit.

[Dean.]

Heavy rain lowering the freezing level!!
Timaru 3.7 degrees,heavy rain.And this is January.Snow level will be low even in Canterbury.

[sw_windbow]

I can see snow on Mt Flagstaff above Dunedin. A light dusting down to about 550 metres. Flagstaff is about 650 metres high. None visible on Mt Cargil from my vantage point but it could have collected on the lee-ward side.

It impresses me that we went from a 23 degree mid-summer's afternoon to a snowy late-autumn night.

[Orion]

It has snowed here overnight at some stage: a dusting of snowflakes on ferns, grass, car, roof.
Presently 1.5 degrees, cloud overhead but bright horizon to south and east.
I daresay the hills will look impressive when I get outside to look at 'em.
[13.8 degr. indoors - I've now lit the fire!]

[snowstormwatcher]

Like winter here this morning with a good coating of snow down to 700-800m, By far the lowest january snow level ive seen here.

Was sleet mixed in with the rain at 2am. 17mm of rain overnight.

[melja]

Light dusting on mt gray at 6am, think its about 500m.

[tich]

Fine now in Chch, with only scattered clouds, after a howling gale and rain last night. Must be at least 15C colder than this time yesterday. A Trademe poster even claimed to have seen some snow on the higher Port Hills early this morning. (maybe hail)

[Manukau heads obs]

SW wind change through here now
abrupt change in wind direction with it
and a very usefull nearly 6mm

[jamie]

its really coming down here at work. neither my station or tim's is getting this.

[David]

Looking at the radar we'll be lucky to get 5mm. Been a dry month so we could use some decent rain soon.

[David]

15 degrees in Auckland at 3pm in late January, haha that's crazy!

[melja]

You must be freezing.

[Storm Struck]

Another very cold snap indeed, i dont think ive seen snow that low in the height of summer before so very uncommon i would think .
I did watch the radar runs before i went to bed and the front was fair chugging it once it hit the plains around Oamaru, the gale southerly must have wipped it up well.
Its been a nice day though with scatterd CU development typical of afternoon heating and left over cold air, a shower did pop up around 2pm must have come from around Mt Thomas area and spilled N-NE weak but a CB shower none the less.
Back to a warm weekend before another NW set up early next week.

[Andy]

Central Otago snowfall.

http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/otago/1959 ... s-gumboots

[Manukau heads obs]

wow, amazing photos for summer!

[snowstormwatcher]

1.7 degrees here this morning with ice on the car for about the 5th time this month, Must be a record to have so many cold nights in january.

[NZstorm]

The great stratocumulus maker (inversion/moisture/onshore wind) has set up camp over Auckland and could be with us for a while. I expect a cloudy end to the month here. Hopefully the cloud can burn back in the afternoons.

The upper level airmass over the country next week looks very warm, should lead to some hot weather in eastern places, more likely Gisborne/HB were the skies will be clearer than further south.

[Tornado Tim]

5.1°C here the low this morning, very unusual getting this cold this time of the year.

[Manukau heads obs]

thats a big difference from here...14.6C overnight low here (with cloud and wind all night)

[jamie]

5.1°C here the low this morning, very unusual getting this cold this time of the year.

3.9 here Tim, but it still doesnt beat the 3.8 i got here on Jan 9, 2010 which is the coldest Jan record ive ever recorded.

Those photos on the ODT are just amazing. That much snow in Jan is amazing

[NZstorm]

There is a vineyard covered in snow in those ODT photos. I assume those grapes would have been ruined by the subzero temps.

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Thick drizzle falling here,its been patchy on and off stuff this afternoon but its somewhat more persistent and thicker now.

[Tornado Tim]

Steady NE here atm, may get a afternoon shower on a seabreeze front or on the surface trough this afternoon.

[David]

The weather has cleared up nicely here after mostly cloudy conditions this morning. Mainly sunny now Might even reach 24 degrees this afternoon...

[Manukau heads obs]

hottest day of the summer here this afternoon
just shy of 25C
we do well here out of NNE winds: lots of land up wind of us to warm things up