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shovelopikis wrote: My rule of thumb to any NZ visitors and friends is, the more south the better.
better weather/culture, and people in my opinion

central otago is always going to be home to me.

You are a poor visitors guide. I grew up in Otago and I find your thinking very ignorant

Reminder this is a weather forum please people.

just had a heavy hail shower here in lincoln, no wind either.

spwill wrote:

shovelopikis wrote: My rule of thumb to any NZ visitors and friends is, the more south the better.
better weather/culture, and people in my opinion

central otago is always going to be home to me.

You are a poor visitors guide. I grew up in Otago and I find your thinking very ignorant

You are completely correct of course but generally we keep that fact quiet spwill or other people might get offended lol

Here in Wellington since nightfall we've had 4 hail showers, temperature is dropping.

A photo from my trip to Te Anau today. Rest of the photos were too big, can't be bothered editing at the moment. Started snowing quiet heavily at Mossburn then continued throughout until about 15mins outside Te Anau where there was no hint of snow at all, very cold though.

Photo is from the Gorge Hill Pass in which the elevation is 417m, travel was slow.

Haven't heard any hail yet in St Albans, but reports in other parts of Chch.

Well and truly hailed in in Cracroft

Spoke too soon - hailing now.

i see precip starting to drift into north otago onshore abit more, perhaps this is telling sign of wind direction change?
Banks peninsula is getting hammerd!

mikestormchaser wrote:i see precip starting to drift into north otago onshore abit more, perhaps this is telling sign of wind direction change?
Banks peninsula is getting hammerd!

Interesting to see if it intensifies as it moves north of Timaru

Deano wrote:

mikestormchaser wrote:i see precip starting to drift into north otago onshore abit more, perhaps this is telling sign of wind direction change?
Banks peninsula is getting hammerd!

Interesting to see if it intensifies as it moves north of Timaru

indeed! the metuvw did hint of increase precip from midnight and quite a reasonable amount in early hours, so i wouldnt be ruling ashburton out of anything.

Nice sunny wintry afternoon here.
Fine evening with stars.
2.6C at 10pm.

Patchy cloud above the high country, and no action of any kind.

Getting more frequent showers with graupel, last few ones had big snowflakes in them.

On the flight into chc tonight the planes flight info displayed the following temps: at 2000m it said it was -7c, at about 850m it was -1c. Didn't seem as cold for snow as I would have thought.

Dry all night here in Rangiora and got down to 4.5C so not to cold.
Should be another nice sunny day out this way again
The knives are out on social media.

just a strong wind and a bit of cloud about this morning

Had a shower of rain thismorning. Now it's all frozen. Very thick ice on the cars with frozen shut doors.

Fine clear night after a fine day yesterday,not a drop of rain from this system.

wintry looking showers coming in here
looks like would be snow at higher altitude
cool...bits of ice in the rain drops splattering on the window
6C here

Plenty of visible snow on my pirongia. Looks down to about 600-700m

Snow has settled to around 250m on the cashmere Hills in Victoria Park, as evidenced by my early morning viewing today. So the Metservice was about spot on

My Westerfield Spy reports "cloudy but not precipitating, cold but not frosty".
I am in Orewa at present, meeting the Silverdale Spy later
*waves to the Auckland folk*

jamie wrote:Plenty of visible snow on my pirongia. Looks down to about 600-700m

Forested mountains make it hard to see but widespread if not practically heavy sprinkle around this morning. Some quick shots out the office window. Mt Maugatautari, The Pureora Range and Mt Pirongia.