Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Concrete whitening up with graupel at present.
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Ground white here with graupel/hail
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Snowing here now ... Waddington nr Sheffield
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Nothing happening here :(
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Online people are saying sleet in Darfield...

Big flakes here and settling...
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Cold rain here, with strong SW. No sleet or hail yet, despite the very low temperature. :-$
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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What temp do you have there John? I have 2.6C here at present
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Just started snowing here and 2.4C - a mixture of sleet and snow actually
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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How long is this going to last. Ive got heavy until around 4-5am??
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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I'd say it's on its way out now, just sleeting and all the snow has melted away
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Tony whats your call on this now?? I see you were going for 400m for chch. Just interested in how long this will last??
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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I take that back, heavy heavy snow, dumped 2cm in 10 min
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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No sign of letting up. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong but did I just hear thunder????
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Let me just check the rad... ahh....
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Just had some hail in St Albans.
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Stopped snowing now, stars to the south. Game over I think
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Rain radar looking a bit bare south of the broken Canterbury region....

Still steady snow here...
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Had some sleet and brief wet flakes not long ago before heavy hail has turned everything white, mix of tiny to pea sized stones.
Abit of thunder just now must be from what just happened here its all go
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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thunder and lightning near Lincoln now, heard one big bang and seen two flashes, followed by more thunder.
Its near the hills heading towards the city.
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Snow just making it to sea level here on the otago pennisula at sea level, not settling and very wet mixed with sleet and hail. Will be a fair bit on the hills though as I had around 10mm since around 7pm last night. Temp hovering around the 2-3C all night.
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Definitely the heaviest snow for us fell over night with around 8cm so far and still falling
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Canty radar fully up and running at 4.13am ...looks impressive!
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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The last hour of heavy showers has turned everything white where we are at approx. 50 asl in Dunedin and coming down thick and fast at the moment. Trucks are backed up waiting to crawl over the northern motorway, cant see where its been officially closed but they aren't attempting it yet.
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Re: Potential low level snow Mon 13th April

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Fine here with a frost,did get a 7mm shower during the night though
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