General May Weather

[Manukau heads obs]

One day soon I hope to come and check out your new work place Tim

[Dale]

How things change in 24 hours.. copped a fair dumping of heavy rain on & off throughout the day, had one huge crack of thunder just before 9am this morning but the only fireworks since then were about 45 mins ago with a car on fire up the end of the street

Not only is Arthurs shut for a few days with that huge slip, SH6 again, down between Haast & Makarora is also closed due to the same, slips & heavy rain. Still going for some heavyish showers over the next couple of days, the moisture fetch is there.. but some sun would be nice too

[Talbotm]

Looking at the latest forecast rain model i can see a fair bit of spill over?? Like a classic north wester but coming from the South West. What do you guys think?? Spill over east?? Porters pass could get 10 -15cm?? Sunday.

[Dean.]

Looking at the latest forecast rain model i can see a fair bit of spill over?? Like a classic north wester but coming from the South West. What do you guys think?? Spill over east?? Porters pass could get 10 -15cm?? Sunday.

Porters too sheltered for 10-15cm.
Mt Cook village a good spot for a snow chase!

[melja]

Came over the lewis to the coast tonite, wind not to bad and a bit of flooding around reefton.

[einzack]

Came over the lewis to the coast tonite, wind not to bad and a bit of flooding around reefton.

We only had an inch (well 25.9mm) yesterday in town, but had a lot more higher up. The Inangahua River was flowing higher than I have seen it for quite some time (probably the last year) and we had a lot of rain at work (@ 550m elevation). I should be able to get an amount on Monday, but it was certainly more than 25mm up there.

[NZstorm]

Good instability out in the Tasman Sea today with 1000j/kg CAPE out there. The front will bring some of that CAPE 200j/kg into the west of the North Island later today with a definite chance of some lightning. Some squalls as well.

[David]

Warm here today, currently 20C with a fresh NW. Might get our first light frost Tuesday morning.

[spwill]

I'm in Otago next 5 days visiting family, in Mosgiel until Monday then through to Central Otago.

[NZstorm]

There is a 500mb -40C plotted on the gfs model for tomorrow night. The cb's push the freezing level down to the surface in the showers, so snow will fall to sea level for a time.

[David]

I just noticed Metservice have Queenstown on -9C for Monday night... wow!

[Tornado Tim]

Lovely amount of Lightning in the Tasman atm, Blitzortung Tracker most active in a while!

[Richard]

Just had a heavy shower from the west which tend to spread further east the colder the wind flow gets.

[Dale]

Lot of water coming down from the valleys atm, the Grey River is very angry this afternoon. Good inside day with the fire & slow cooker going!

[Tim S]

Temp went from 15C down to 5C in 7mins with the first front here on the otago peninsula, not a bad drop!

[Razor]

Absolutely superb weather here this week, today one out of the box

[Manukau heads obs]

south taranaki/wanganui getting a good thunderstorm

[GreggWard]

south taranaki/wanganui getting a good thunderstorm

That storm is passing just to the north of Palmerston North, currently. Have heard several loud rumbles of thunder and have seen a couple of intracloud lightning flashes.

[Captain Salty]

Local knowledge is more relevant than anything at Arthurs. Graeme Kates runs a great website- I would pay attention to this
http://www.softrock.co.nz

His weather station just got taken out by lightning

[melja]

happened Friday morning

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Nice fine day today with a thunderous rain-band along the Alps to the west, especially to the North to NW of here.
Hoping this would last and develop further south along the Alps this evening but doesn't look likely, sadly.
Interesting cold front change through Dunedin this afternoon.

[Orion]

I believe the wind has backed round to southerly or SE in the last wee while;
temp currently 11.3 degrees...

[melja]

Some crazy claims on CWU facebook of 50 -60cm of snow on the lewis and arthurs passes.

[GSVNoFixedAbode]

That was an impressive front coming across Dunedin this afternoon. 10º drop in a very short time. Also very well captured on timelapse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Pseq8ImHY (Paul Le Comte)

[Talbotm]

Im confused how Arthurs Pass wont be getting any snow according to Met Services road snowfall warnings. latest metvuw maps show the SW turning slight back to a SSW after it hit the Dunedin area. This could potentially bring snow more into CHCH city and the plains?? not alot but looks like something.