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Re: General October Weather

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Was driving back to Halswell from town about half an hour ago and some sleet was splutting on the windscreen in that heavier period of rain. Back to lighter stuff again now.
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:Was driving back to Halswell from town about half an hour ago and some sleet was splutting on the windscreen in that heavier period of rain. Back to lighter stuff again now.
the snow isnt far away from chch by the sounds of it. hahaha might get a few flurries!
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Suns out here now and the snow is melting fast.
measured a maximum depth of 4cm here in town with double that in the hill country.
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Yeah great to see some sun here in Fairlie.Nice town witg a great bakery.Plenty of snow on surrounding hills.
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No sign of any sleet in the rain here,too warm on 6deg also the radar isnt picking how heavy it is too
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Sleeting here now in Dunedin, close to sea level
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I noticed on MS weather warnings and severe convection thunder outlook that there was a deep coldtrough moving up this arvo and into the evening, who knows it might come bit further north then expected, i certainly have noticed the air become unstable in the last hour with some heavy showers offshore on the rain radar. :-w

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yes we just had a down pour 30 min ago
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There was 13mm precipitation to 9am this morning here.
Some very soggy-looking dark grey cloud approaching from the south at present.
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CHCH Weather Chaser wrote:West Coast rain here at the moment! Pelting down!
Yes,there was a report of a mini-tornado near Hector in the wee small hours this morning.
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Story here about the mini tornado.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=10842147

Its been a quiet year for tornadoes.
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I love it how members on this forum call it a "mini" tornado and yet the Media article linked didn't say mini once..... :)

A fair bit of lightning 50 KM northwest off Cape Reinga atm.
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Orignal article I read called it mini. Possible that it has been edited?
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Small tornado is a better discription, I agree.
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A cold day by Auckland standards, 11 degrees, overcast with occasional drizzle and a southerly
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Hasn't cleared up on Banks peninsula yet, getting some hail showers this morning.
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Was ensconced on the Croesus Track above Blackball over the long weekend, had some great storms esepcailly overnight Sunday and Monday.

It was snowing on the way home yesterday evening from Cora Lynn right through to Porters Pass, had settled to the paddocks before Springfield. Very pretty.
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No snow in twizel over weekend, bit of rain over night sunday then sun out by 10am with snow line around 800-1000m.
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They havn't done a great job on the forecast today,just had a good hail shower and the MS saying fine weather :-k
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Yes some instability about again today lead to some isolated heavy showers some possibly with hail, all seemed to be inland from the city and up around north canterbury where i was.
The shower at around 2pm had some strong W-SW gusts with it and had that look it could have flung out a bolt or two.
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Yes sure was a Winter like day though it improved somewhat later in the afternoon.
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Just the USA ones often compared to them with more proliferation in the media,I think in the "old days" they would simply call our ones a tornado or a whirl wind or even a sudden gust.
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am getting tired of the wet spring we're having on the West Coast.
have recorded rain every day except one this month.
that has resulted in a paltry 72 hours of sunshine so far in October.
and September had 22 days rain also, so 44 of the last 53 days have had rain.
i guess it is spring after all, but woe is me.
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your winters seem to be one of the better seasons of late,southerlies youre ok wheres spring and summer wetter
einzack wrote:am getting tired of the wet spring we're having on the West Coast.
have recorded rain every day except one this month.
that has resulted in a paltry 72 hours of sunshine so far in October.
and September had 22 days rain also, so 44 of the last 53 days have had rain.
i guess it is spring after all, but woe is me.
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As far as I am concerned tornado's aren't small or mini, they should be named exactly what they are. Eg: Landspout or Tornado.
I don't understand whats wrong with calling a supposed "mini" tornado a tornado/landspout because irrespective of size or destructive power they are still the same.

Cool SW winds today and mild to moderate convection this afternoon.
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