Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Just came back over the lewis pass and there was no snow falling both on the road or the highest mountains, just wet nw rain and wind and 7C at the top so that puts the freezing level at around 1500m up there.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Southerly change in Oamaru at 1745 .Strong southerly , small hail and sleet. Temp now 3.9C
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Southerly change sounds like it's arrived here in the last few minutes.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Is the temp dropping Orion??
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Fairly vigorous looking line coming up the way...
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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yes i see that razor, id say a big gust front southerly buster approaching, so be good to keep an eye on it as it moves closer.. could possibly see a flash to
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Razor wrote:Fairly vigorous looking line coming up the way...
Yeah. Looks like it.
Back to NW at the moment with a slight rise in temperature after being clear and fine for a while.
Could in inline for a "Busterly Blow" :D
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Lightning towards the SE
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Hailing in Akaroa.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Lightly snowing in Dunedin at 75 metres.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Now got hail here as well.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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yep hail and were even some softer pellets earlier, was a howling southerly when it hit!
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Ok, that was really unusual: Nice amount of horizontal snow with the wind gusts, small flakes and not settling on the ground but giving the telephone pole a good white coating on the one side. The weird thing was that looking straight up it was a clear sky and I could see a heap of stars! Dunedin 9:30pm 180m (Opoho).
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Turned southerly here but nothing much, just before 10pm, with some light rain and drizzle.
The temperature halved. :p
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Been interesting to watch, it certainly gave the hysterical types over on Facebook a chance to vent and get over excited. That normally wouldn't bug me, but the reality is that far too many people hang on ever CAPITAL LETTER BLAZING HEADLINE OF IMPENDING DOOM. and now the good folk of Chch think the actual Metservice got it wrong. These cowboys have a duty of care to not cry wolf so often- or at least moderate the capital letter Hypeing
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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The wind didn't get very strong here at all in fact barely made 35kmh, so the frontal line certainly struggled against the westerly flow holding it back over south Christchurch and towards the peninsula.
Most of the lightning looked to have occurred on the coastline around Rakaia river mouth in a brief spat :smile: .
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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About 1cm on the ground here this morning temp 0 degrees.
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Yes razor wild reports of 60cm of snow on mountain passes, and even a mention of 1-2cm in chch do get good coverage and tends to over hype chch folk and as you say they now think m/s is wrong all the time and everything they say as the real truth.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Lots of small hail in Dunedin and looks like settled snow. There would be a dusting of real snow in the mix.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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SW wind change through here at 7am
7:30 for auckland city

and yet marine forecast for auckland harbours is SW change mid morning... a couple of hours later...
not very often you see the marine forecast out by that amount on timing these days
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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A light covering of hail here in Mosgiel. The snow level on the hills is down to about 200m and mostly light. Shower activity around here has been mostly weak in the SW flow.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Talbotm wrote:Is the temp dropping Orion??
Didn't see your enquiry last night till it had been overtaken by events, sorry ;)
It was 2.5 degrees here at 8am this morning, now 3.6 deg. with southerly breeze and quite a cloudy sky.
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Sleety shower here now
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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few flecks of snow just fell for a few seconds in Sockburn
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Re: Cold Outbreak, 24th - 27th May

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Sleet falling here now too, 4.5c
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