hozza95 wrote:Invercargill has been having snow on and off all day,they only managed a high of 3
Woke to a coating of hail and it's been sleeting on an off all day. Aside from a couple of flakes, it hasn't been 'snowing'
Outside is white again with a thick coating of small hail but if the wind changes to the SW from the mainly NW we've had, then I doubt we'll get any snowfall in the city.
matttbs wrote:What's the biggest dump in the last couple decades to fall in invercargill?
18th September 2010
The warnings out at the time, were for snow to 300m. Typical inland area warnings but Metservice were caught out as it hit the coast instead. As for the wet snow, if the snowfall that day, carried on for another hour or so, there would have been a heap more businesses and homes affected with collapsed roofs.
The earlier fall in July 1996 was typical dry snow but it hung around for ages thanks to a big high.
It's going to be interesting to see how it pans out in Southland. Clear skies in Dunedin all day. My family is in Mossburn and had light snow today, should be some serious snow in that area this week. Hopefully no repeat of 2010 in Invercargill. Any of you Southlanders had thunderstorms today?
RichyDunedin wrote:It's going to be interesting to see how it pans out in Southland. Clear skies in Dunedin all day. My family is in Mossburn and had light snow today, should be some serious snow in that area this week. Hopefully no repeat of 2010 in Invercargill. Any of you Southlanders had thunderstorms today?
Nope - quiet as considering their 'moderate' outlook. Nothing showed on the two lightning detectors that I keep an eye on.
There shouldn't be another repeat, especially once the NW turns SW or S.
RichyDunedin wrote:It's going to be interesting to see how it pans out in Southland. Clear skies in Dunedin all day. My family is in Mossburn and had light snow today, should be some serious snow in that area this week. Hopefully no repeat of 2010 in Invercargill. Any of you Southlanders had thunderstorms today?
Nope - quiet as considering their 'moderate' outlook. Nothing showed on the two lightning detectors that I keep an eye on.
There shouldn't be another repeat, especially once the NW turns SW or S.
Do you guys not do very well out of a S or SW? Sheltered?
No - Stewart Island tends to deflect it to western and eastern Southland and a straight southerly, (while cold), tends to go up the east coast more so.
Hail on the ground doesn't seem to want to melt. If it does freeze overnight, the roads will be diabolical in the morning!
Must be due to how heavy the precipitation was. Looks like there should be some decent falls down to your level starting tonight and lasting into Thursday
SnwAddct wrote:Must be due to how heavy the precipitation was. Looks like there should be some decent falls down to your level starting tonight and lasting into Thursday
our farm goes quite high (topographicly speaking we have a registered summit) but its hit and miss really, we do get random falls/flurries in and out of southerly blast events, but precip and temps loose there oomph once it gets over any central ranges in central n island be it hauhangaroa from SW, ruapehu from S or kaimanawas from SE....they are all real good at blocking and all the dumpings will most of the time fall southward of these.
MoorfNZ wrote:Snow shower here right now, nr Sheffield
Funny, nothing shows on the radar in that area.
Looking out from 6th floor of office there does appear to be a wee convergence line or something out to the NW, which would support the post. Rogue precursor or spillover from the alps? I wonder why the radar isn't picking it up?
