Cold southerly low level snow 27-28th May

[trickytiger]

thought i was seeing stuff just then when i looked out window but nope just went outside and it's snowing, more than last night but not settling

[Orion]

Great photos, Ice Maiden. Stormy-looking sea there!

[Karliosis]

Heavy wet snow here for the past 20 mins, settling but not the kind you want to throw at someone

[bmo]

Its settling now

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

I see tht most of this wether seems to be missing us here in West Melton.
Being very costl nd not venturing much further thn bout Templeton here.
cold winds though, keeping the temperture down.

[Ice Maiden]

Great photos, Ice Maiden. Stormy-looking sea there!

Thanks Orion, the sea shot was taken at St Clair the waves were crashing against the already damaged sea wall so hard you could feel the whole promenade vibrating and the spray was keeping everyone amused. The sea was amazing I have never seen the ocean so churned up.

[CWUweather]

Its settling now

It does seem to be very isolated, like not snowing here, and you guys are further west than us

[Skywatcher]

Snowing and lightly settling in St Albans now. First settling snow in May in Chch I can recall. (been here since 1995)

It's the first snow I've seen falling here in May since I arrived in Dec 2000.

[mikestormchaser]

I see tht most of this wether seems to be missing us here in West Melton.
Being very costl nd not venturing much further thn bout Templeton here.
cold winds though, keeping the temperture down.

im in the same boat as you John, just cold winds now and nothing exciting.
We will do better in SSE wind flow john, tilt it bit more inland towards us to get some decent activity.

[einzack]

temperature is dropping quickly now in Reefton.
wind has gone and temp dropped 1.3°C in last 30mins so now sitting on -1.2°C.
no snow here. none at work since yesterday afternoon.

[Storm Struck]

Just sticking to a wet snow here with grapel intermixed nothing really settling, i think Lake Ellesmere might have an affect on the development of the showers in that area from Lincoln to Hornby Hallswell etc with proper heavy snow showers there.
By the time they get going over land pushed on by the strong S-SW they loose abit of steam.
Still this is cool to see none the less especially being only 3 days out from winter

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

Heavy snow here over the last hour on and off. Road all covered. Very squally

[03Stormchaser]

Mattbs Read your inbox.

Cheers Steve

[jamie]

Mattbs Read your inbox.

Cheers Steve

[dogmelon]

That mention of heavy snow over halswell way is interesting. In hornby its only been a bit of light rain and the odd small flake.

[matttbs]

Anyone care to tell the amounts of snow your getting? Absolutely nothing down here

[CHCH Weather Chaser]

About 1cm here. Nothing overly exciting. Hill suburbs could have up to 8- 10cm in parts. Thought I just heard thunder...

[Classicford]

Leighton, yes I saw lightning, quick flash, ilam way.

[Karliosis]

About 1cm on grass in Burwood, about 50% of it is hail and groupel

[Razor]

Thunder and lightning times two

[matttbs]

Friends down in timaru got 4cm from that thunderstorm that rolled through Canterbury yesterday. Their 70m asl

[Ice Maiden]

Final two photos from this evenings visit to St Clair

[Chris Raine]

Nothing in Oamaru ,A 30 second flurry of snow at 1pm and that was it , Just a cold southerly wind with a wind chill between 1-3C actual temp at the time of 6.2C and a 30 knot southerly blowing. Complete non-event for us .

Warming up now 4.8C

[NZstorm]

Friends down in timaru got 4cm from that thunderstorm that rolled through Canterbury yesterday. Their 70m asl

That will be hail. I had a report of hail coating the ground in Timaru last night.

[03Stormchaser]

Final two photos from this evenings visit to St Clair

Love this first one!