Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Hasn't been below 5 degrees here in ChCh- currently 7 degrees, scattered clouds but dry and little wind
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
A crop of wintry showers is moving into Otago. Radar at Dunedin is long overdue
The drier air inland is more favourable for snow than the damp coastal air providing the precipitation reaches inland .
The drier air inland is more favourable for snow than the damp coastal air providing the precipitation reaches inland .
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Snowing here in Gore and started to settle. Had a frost last night and little wind to speak of.
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looks like a bit of a red face moment for CWU saying its a coastal event for canterbury and then it snows all the way inland right up to North canterbury.
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Hey, enough with the personal attacks, we have been over this before... Metservice were saying this too, as always with a SW event.melja wrote:looks like a bit of a red face moment for CWU saying its a coastal event for canterbury and then it snows all the way inland right up to North canterbury.
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Yes its interesting how it does it,i think its because of the small low that formed off the coast.melja wrote:looks like a bit of a red face moment for CWU saying its a coastal event for canterbury and then it snows all the way inland right up to North canterbury.
Talking about over reacting, our local school has just closed its stopped now and it barely settled.
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Good fall of snow at the moment, everything getting a good coating.
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Umm not sure thats a personal attack given your now a registered weather company and people pay you money to get it right i think you may have to grow thicker skinCWUweather wrote:Hey, enough with the personal attacks, we have been over this before... Metservice were saying this too, as always with a SW event.melja wrote:looks like a bit of a red face moment for CWU saying its a coastal event for canterbury and then it snows all the way inland right up to North canterbury.
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Complete non event for Christchurch, as was always on the cards
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
The weather maps and models have been all over the show with this one so it was always best to sit back and watch, we could see a return of coastal showers tonight through the city with hail sleet though.
By the sounds snow has fallen and briefly settled at around 200m so pretty much what I was thinking, if activity comes in tonight id pick the level to be about 100-200m as its dropping to -2c overnight.
By the sounds snow has fallen and briefly settled at around 200m so pretty much what I was thinking, if activity comes in tonight id pick the level to be about 100-200m as its dropping to -2c overnight.
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
I just drove the inland route from darfield to mayfield. There was actually quite a bit of snow around glen tunnel through to mt hutt, around about 8 - 10cm in places.
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Some snow flurries without accumulation near lake level earlier. Snow currently settled a couple of hundred metres about lake level (so ~500m).
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Looks like there's more coming by the looks of the Canterbury radar
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Rain started around lunch time in Dunedin and the temperature slowly fell from 6C, currently sitting on 4C with light dusting of snow on Mt Cargill and Flagstaff and probably the higher hill suburbs (when you can see through the low cloud) Very bleak and cold, constant shower of rain and sleet so far at sea level, but looking very ominous to the south, very dark.
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no snow here on central plateau at 700 meters today, just constant cold sleety showers, even the summit of tongariro had no snow when it poked out for a brief second between the cold southerly clouds ...maybe something tonight though as we will be out working early at 600 meters tomorrow morning.
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
A few centimeters at Hanmer on the upper section of town when we left at midday.Snow level seemed to be 350 metres through North Canterbury
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The snow settled briefly to about 200mDeano wrote:A few centimeters at Hanmer on the upper section of town when we left at midday.Snow level seemed to be 350 metres through North Canterbury
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Metvuw charts seem to be extremely accurate, with systems like this.
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
yep would of been pretty much 200m, was around 10cm up the hill at 530m came down thick and fast
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Re: Possible heavy snow 2nd - 4th July
Just had some showers here with sleet mixed in, the flow certainly tilted more S-SW as you can see its more SW up near Kaikoura on the radar maps.
This allowed the typical chain line to form and move in over Ellesmere north over the city, its hard to say if the chain line will stay on the same track or not.
But there must be a small frontal feature if you look inland along the plains you can see a lighter band of showers move up.
This allowed the typical chain line to form and move in over Ellesmere north over the city, its hard to say if the chain line will stay on the same track or not.
But there must be a small frontal feature if you look inland along the plains you can see a lighter band of showers move up.
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