General June Weather

[ScottyD]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/artic ... d=11471594

"We basically had rain first up, the rain stopped and then suddenly Queenstown was snap frozen. All that water on the runway and the roads just turned to ice."

Interesting observation. I wonder if the ground temperature was so cold, that when the front arrived it didn't warm up the ground fast enough.

[Skywatcher]

Gusty southerly change arrived here a short time ago.

[tich]

http://www.metservice.com/warnings/thunderstorm-outlook
Small risk, but there nevertheless.

[Razor]

Certainly a vigorous wind out there

[Dean.]

Just a 'joe average' southerly change down here

[Orion]

Sounding blusterous outside now.

[Razor]

That radar getting some red in it now, a stormy old night. Looking forward to a nice day trip up to Arthurs Pass tomorrow

[Bradley]

Going to be another extremely treacherous morning on the roads around Canterbury etc tomorrow

[Razor]

Going to be another extremely treacherous morning on the roads around Canterbury etc tomorrow

Lucky we bought new tyres today for the 4wd

[mikestormchaser]

Yes if this rain band clears witch it looks like its going to, and it clears overnight, theres a chance it could get down to -3 in the early hours probably starting around 4am onwards.. the roads will be extremely dangrous if this happens.. thankfully no work tomorrow!

[Razor]

only just hit zero, so not as bad as it could have been

[snowykiwi]

Was lovely to have had warmer weather yesterday at work in Methven, finally we had the snow on the roof of the building starting to thaw. The downpipe had been frozen solid for the previous two days. I would say the roads would be very treacherous this morning. Here in Rakaia after the rain last night we had a really good frost here (I know it's a good frost when all the windows in the bus are iced up). The emergency services siren first went off just after 6am, then again a little over an hour later and for a third time just prior to 8am. Not a good morning for those guys so far.

[Bradley]

Can't say I've ever seen these kind of figures forecast for Christchurch before, clearly we aren't going to get that amount but the models have been consistently throwing up huge rainfall figures the last few runs now

[Bradley]

I'm guessing all we need is some reasonable cold fronts in conjunction with this and the snowfields are going to get a pounding over the next 2-3 weeks?

[Razor]

Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over

[jamie]

'Twas very spring like today. Warm in the afternoon. Even had some very shallow convective showers this afternoon.

[einzack]

Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over

I did too, but from the other side, and I thought there'd be more snow. We didn't go any further east than Arthurs Pass village, but I expected there to be more snow about. It was well and truly frozen, so no soft playful snow, but the kids still had a great time. Signs said chains required from Otira, but there wasn't any need at all. Worst bit was actually before getting to Otira with black ice on some of the shaded corners. No signs of grit before Otira which surprised me.
Was pretty damn cold tho...

[Tim S]

Lovely still and sunny days here on the Pennisula most of last week, this was taken on Thursday afternoon.

[Orion]

Looks beautiful there, Tim S.

[Razor]

Had the pleasure of driving up to Arthurs Pass yesterday. Remarkable amounts of snow, chains essential from just beyond Springfield over Porters Pass. Lake Lyndon totally frozen over

I did too, but from the other side, and I thought there'd be more snow. We didn't go any further east than Arthurs Pass village, but I expected there to be more snow about. It was well and truly frozen, so no soft playful snow, but the kids still had a great time. Signs said chains required from Otira, but there wasn't any need at all. Worst bit was actually before getting to Otira with black ice on some of the shaded corners. No signs of grit before Otira which surprised me.
Was pretty damn cold tho...

Yes things were very different on the eastern side. Snow tailed off around Craigieburn/ Lake Pearson as is normal in the southerly events I guess. Lake Lyndon, Castle Hill and Cave Stream areas were an amazing sight, see pictures

Bear in mind this is over a week after the big dump

[melja]

Think they had snow over night friday as we came over the weekend after the big dump and road was dry and clear.
Went to Arthurs pass yesterday to empty hot water cylinder in the house and road was clear and dry too

[Razor]

Think they had snow over night friday as we came over the weekend after the big dump and road was dry and clear.
Went to Arthurs pass yesterday to empty hot water cylinder in the house and road was clear and dry too

Yes it went NW Sat afternoon and road was good by Sat night

[Skywatcher]

Readings from my station for the month:

Ave temp 7.3°C
Ave Minimum 2.3°C
Ave Maximum 13.5°C
Minimum -3.3°C on 25th (9 air frosts + 2 days <1°C)
Maximum 19.6°C on 1st
Rainfall 73mm with 19.4mm on 18th, YTD 248.4mm

Ave temp 0.5C above "normal".

36.8mm of the rain fell during the low level snow event of 18th/19th.

[David]

Readings from my station for Howick:

Avg temp 12.0C
Avg daily max 15.5C
Avg daily min 8.6C
Highest 18.9C
Lowest 0.4C
Rainfall 88mm

[spwill]

Looks like June temps were near average for NZ but on the warm side of average