Cold Weather on the way plus good sub antartic storm brewing

[hozza95]

temp in invers has just plummeted from around 7 degrees to 4.2 in the last 10 minutes

[hozza95]

reports that there have already been snow flurries in invercargill although im not too sure how accurate that is, more likely to of been sleet

[hozza95]

Been a few light snow flurries, get the feeling its starting to kick into gear

[talbotmj15]

I see met service are now going for sea level snow over Banks Pennisula in there latest warning. Chch is the edge of BP. Could see some snow if the showers get wide enough.

AREA/S AFFECTED
Banks Peninsula
FORECAST
Snow showers are expected to become heavier Monday morning and lower to near sea level, with significant accumulations higher up. In the 24 hours from 6am Monday to 6am Tuesday expect around 20cm to fall above 400 metres, 10 to 15cm down to 300 metres and lesser amounts to near sea level. The heaviest falls are likely Monday morning and afternoon, when 10 to 15cm could accumulate above 400 metres in a 6 hour period.

[dizzy]

Metservice have hugely downgraded the forecast for snow in the hill suburbs of Christchurch- completely gone out of the forecast now...

I don't know what you've been looking at. Their current forecast for tomorrow:
Fine about the City with strong cold southwesterlies. Sleety showers developing about Banks Peninsula early morning with thunderstorms possible. Significant accumulations of snow developing above 300 metres and southwest gales, severe gusting 120 km/h in exposed places.

They never said that there'd be snow any lower than 300 metres in Christchurch/Canterbury. Banks Peninsula is the only part of Christchurch region that is higher than 300 metres! And the forecast still has snow for Banks Peninsula tonight and tomorrow.

[hozza95]

Had showers of graupel through out the day here, only had our first big snow flurry 10 minutes ago

[melja]

The forecast did actually say hill suburb snow for Chch.

[talbotmj15]

Yes the forecast did say hill side snow.

[RichyDunedin]

We had a short snow shower two hours ago. The ground is dry and the temperature is down to 3 degrees in the city so it looks like snow will settle easily when it kicks in especially as the snow looks to arrive just on dark here. Wind chill is awful today haha.

[hozza95]

Things kicking up a notch, a heavy snow shower at the moment. Should be an interesting night with 10- 15cms over 6 hours fotcast for us up here

[petem8nz]

New Brighton CHCH, 7.8Deg, wind chill 1.8deg, Humidity 61%, .996hpa, wind rose SSE dominant (almost directly south), wind average 23kph. Observation: High Cloud with odd shower of light hail.

[Dean.]

Sleet showers here at the moment soon to clear to a fine night

[hozza95]

Very heavy snow and blizzard conditions here, powers out! Oh joy

[Ice Maiden]

Snowing in Dunedin in North East Valley and laying straight away

[Bradley]

What altitude are you there Ice Maiden, around 100m asl?

[Ice Maiden]

No only about 60 asl I think

[melja]

Very wet in Rangiora with heavy sleet at times
Edit. large flakes mixed in now.

[Dean.]

Very wet in Rangiora with heavy sleet at times
Edit. large flakes mixed in now.

Starry night now no wind,the main band probably a tad more showery than I expected,a good frost by morning

[melja]

Yeah i expect it to be clear in the morning here too

[matttbs]

Very wet in Rangiora with heavy sleet at times
Edit. large flakes mixed in now.

Starry night now no wind,the main band probably a tad more showery than I expected,a good frost by morning

It's not all over yet for us inland, a little more build up in the radar just south of Timaru.

On another note I just drove back from christchurch where it was raining moderately, and by the time I was just inland of Rakia at about 120m ASL it was only 1C and sleet/snow

[Manukau heads obs]

I see reports of snow In Oxford and Darfield

[Razor]

Clear as a bell and 4 degrees here in southern Chch. Still nit seeing anything worth any level of excitement from here

[snowchaser01]

Clear as a bell and 4 degrees here in southern Chch. Still nit seeing anything worth any level of excitement from here

Hmm, radar images from Dunedin are is interesting... looks to be a bit coming out of there. We shall see over the next few hours.

[katipo]

View from Highgate Bridge...
http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council-onli ... s/highgate

[snowchaser01]

View from Highgate Bridge...
http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council-onli ... s/highgate

Yes well... that is on the way up here going by the radar... lets see how cold it gets!