Potential sea level snow 7/8th Plus low snow next week

Manukau heads obs · Sat 09/08/2014 22:05

south waikato...basicly the northern end of the western bays of lake taupo
there was snow at Turangi and on the western bay hills

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 09/08/2014 22:05

Manukau heads obs wrote:amazing how CHCH can miss out when the NI did so well
must be that marine layer airmass again

Yes. With these cold air systems, the very much coastal areas seem to cop it and also fringe parts of the foothills but nothing much over the plains.

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Sat 09/08/2014 22:21

Manukau heads obs wrote:south waikato...basicly the northern end of the western bays of lake taupo
there was snow at Turangi and on the western bay hills

Could see the snow low down (almost to the bottom) on Mt Pihanga on the timelapse webcam looking across the lake from Taupo. Melted quickly in the morning though.

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 10/08/2014 08:00

What is the height of whakamaru town? (Where the dam is)

Manukau heads obs · Sun 10/08/2014 08:03

only 300m was the figure posted above
I would say its much higher than that
its a fair windy down hill drive to the dam just north of mangakino

Manukau heads obs · Sun 10/08/2014 08:28

ok, google earth puts the township pf whakamaru at only 230m
which makes sense as its beside the waikato river, which has to be lower than lake taupo
but you do drop from 480m of the western lake taupo hills quickly

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 10/08/2014 08:51

Yea that's makes sense. I didn't think the township was 300. I just assumed shovelopikis was close to the town but on a hill.

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Sun 10/08/2014 08:52

I can believe snow at Turangi. That was a chilly airmass.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 10/08/2014 09:58

Think next weeks will be as bad though east of Canterbury instead.

matttbs · Unread post by **matttbs** » Sun 10/08/2014 10:26

Michael wrote:Think next weeks will be as bad though east of Canterbury instead.

When next week are you thinking? And do you mean for the plains or just coastal crap? I can't really see anything happening next week but I've only seen one model

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 10/08/2014 15:37

Friday then then sunday at the models,You probably miss it being east,Auckland ofcourse will certainly cop tons of inclement weather even more than this week.

Manukau heads obs · Sun 10/08/2014 21:25

found out a bit more about the snow in Turangi....sounds like it must have come down from the Desert Road
Pihunga had a good covering, and right down to the Turangi, especially the end closest to Mt Pihunga
(The central mountains are just on the other side of that anyway)
the western bays hills did not get any,...well at least the southern end anyway,...

jamie · Unread post by **jamie** » Sun 10/08/2014 21:49

So the southerly was strong enough to cause spill over precipitation? Eg pushed the snow right over the plateau?

Manukau heads obs · Sun 10/08/2014 23:59

sort of thing yeah...there is a gap between the central mountains and the kaimanwas, where the desert road goes...
often weather systems basicly run down the desert road and hit Turangi area....

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