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More info from my station on the squall that came through around 12.40PM.

The Air pressure was raised 1.49hPa in 5 min, the temperature dropped 1.94°C in 10 min and Humidity dropped 8% in 5 min.

Light sprinklings of rain on-and-off since this morning in inland North Otago, but still mild. Definitely appears to have been a Canterbury event.

The low seems to be nearest to there as it "crosses" the alps

bpo wrote:Light sprinklings of rain on-and-off since this morning in inland North Otago, but still mild. Definitely appears to have been a Canterbury event.

A lucky escape at Te Puke Holiday Park, the managers who lease it off council have been trying unsuccessfully for months including having meetings onsite with council officials to have some trees pruned. One of the branches they were concerned about broke, very narrowly missing two vans and clipping a cabin. Luckily it fell onto a walnut tree seriously damaging it but slowing it's fall. Could have seriously hurt or killed someone. When we heard it in the nearby radio clubrooms we thought a car had hit a tree or powerpole. The split they were concerned about was clearly rotting & full of debri.
Hmm, limit of 5 images, 6th will follow.

Also, Pacific Blue 737 from Adelaide to Auckland I presume (A friend from SA had his family on it) landed in Tauranga tonight & they are busing passengers to Auckland. I presume Auckland, Hamilton & Rotorua International Airports had too high a cross winds for them to land at this domestic airport.

http://nzcivair.blogspot.co.nz/2012/10/ ... -nztg.html

Winds were really high 2-3pm, but settled back down since.

That was a huge limb alright,it would have been rotten for a long time so rather slake of them not to have done something about it long ago.

Well for the second Saturday in a row weve had thunder and lightning here and i was in bloody Waimate ,i'm guna be away for the next two Saturdays and they say things happen in threes

Still windy here and heavy chain showers passing by all night. Got woken to one with hail in the night smashing against the window. Currently a shower and an additional 8mm overnight taking the total here to 38mm for the event thus far.

Some of the higher peaks appear to have received a light dusting of snow, but it's fine and calm right now.

Plenty of snow has fallen and settled here down to around 500m looks like the middle of winter!

Plenty of snow at Tekapo, Around 15cm so im told.
Fine day here with a cold gusty wind.

Feeling a bit wintry today! But thankfully the wind is just a light breeze (so far)

Very pleased there is fresh snow, have some friends from the US just arrived on their first visit to NZ, Fresh snow on the skifields will be great as they are skiers, they fly into Dunedin on Thursday and are in Auckland at the mo, not sure of their full itinerary.

Yes, plenty of snow along the foothills, down into the bushline; even a skiff of snow showing first thing this morning on the top of Surrey Hills/Gawler Downs (summit 640m asl)

We received 42mm in the end with this storm. Heavy rain/hail shower moved thru about 220am, interesting that Jeffs Weather didn't pick up any of this, must have been very localised.

I can see a dusting of snow on Mt Herbert, as weather finally starts to clear. (snow on ground also at 700m above Little Akaloa according to webcam there)

43.1mm for this event here, with no hail, snow or sleet observed, just constant rain and the wind.

Totally different day, today, especially this afternoon, compared to this time yesterday.
No doubt the plants and whatever growth benefits from the sunlight after a day of constant rain.
Yes, a great day for photosynthesising

28mm for the system here, i suspect some shadowing of the peninnsula was to blame at times although also where the low crossed in line with where the bulk of the rain was over mid/south canterbury.
Some very icy showers from about 1am with grapel/sleet in them very wintry like, may have been some brief flurries down to about 300m at the time i reackon.
Mountains look juicy with some deep looking marangs in areas, ski feilds will be benefiting majorly.

By 9am this morning, a total of 44mm rain here for the event.

All south island ski areas closed for the season so the snow is of little use to them

41mm here for the event. Very nice afternoon in the end.

melja wrote:All south island ski areas closed for the season so the snow is of little use to them

Err, shouldn't that be thumbs down? They were Waitomo Caving today, I'm picking it might be Rotovegas tomorrow, then perhaps Taupo and Ruapehu as they work their way down.

Mt Hutt was open today

http://www.nzski.com/fullReport.jsp?site=mthutt

with a good snow base still

but today is the last day

they could easily stay open


the central north island is still open

The thing to remember is that the snow won't last long. By this afternoon, much of the snow that had accumulated on the tops around here overnight was already gone. Even the heavier falls elsewhere will be gone soon in these temperatures, and with the NWer already blowing. Most of the fields had already closed due to a lack of snow, and their staff - temps and part-timers - were long gone.

Mount Hutt has a 2.8 metre base,snow will be there well into November.
Skier numbers fall well away at this time of the year,fields would run at a loss if they stayed open.
There is talk of Broken river opening for Labour weekend.