South Island snow - July 6-10

[itaranaki]

Sun has just come out. Up to 10.5°now http://www.waitaraweather.com/

[MoorfNZ]

Wind has turned southerly here...

[matttbs]

Had light snow for the last half hour. Very cold wind here, -3.4 wind chill and 2C

[MoorfNZ]

Snowing in Springfield

[Orion]

The low cloud to my south/south-east looks very oppressive.

[MoorfNZ]

Snowing here now nr Sheffield

(was a flurry for about 5 mins!)

[Razor]

Going by port hills the snow line is above 500m now, anything up there earlier is almost totally gone with the last shower

[TonyT]

Regular sleety showers passing through Amberley since about 3pm. Sometimes mostly rain, sometimes half melted snow, and with the temp around 3deg it must be right on the marginal melting zone.

[mikestormchaser]

Frequent sleet showers moving through rolleston nowto "60m asl" id say get to about 200m and will be proper snow showers

[melja]

Temps look to be rising now.
Edit: no its now dropped to 2C from 3 here.

[snowykiwi]

Had a mixture of showers here, hail showers then sleet and at the moment rain. Will be interesting to see what it is like up in Methven tomorrow, was a light sleet shower up there when I left just after 2.30pm this afternoon. At the moment we have a rather strong southerly wind blowing here and temperature is dropping.

[petem8nz]

Regular sleety showers passing through Amberley since about 3pm. Sometimes mostly rain, sometimes half melted snow, and with the temp around 3deg it must be right on the marginal melting zone.

A bit colder than expected this evening Tony? On a side note eastern Australia is looking especially cold with two low pressure systems due to cause some havoc. Some are forecasting temps 10 deg below average for this time of year. Quite significant considering the cold temps will stretch right into Queensland

[melja]

very sleety/snowy for the last hour in Rangiora and 1C, a light coating on the back of the truck at times.

[Richard]

At 245m and its only raining here, 2 deg

edit- just started to snow

[MoorfNZ]

Finally... decent snowfall (nr Sheffield)

Edit: didn't last long.... bored now

[Richard]

Interesting how the line of chain showers that you normally see over or near CHCH are further inland,its been snowing now none stop for a hour and the way the line is running should get a lot more too.

[moylanr]

Falling steadily for ~1 hr and settling in Hanmer Springs.

Outside library:

[mikestormchaser]

nice wee snow shower in rolleston just now. that chain of showers are coming right over here to.

[Richard]

A few cm's of wet snow out there, over all not really exciting

[melja]

Bit more moisture for the farmers then Richard

[Tim S]

I heard reports of around 10cm of snow around lanarch castle yesterday morning which is a decent amount but nothing too extraordinary. Seems the heaviest faĺls were exactly where metservice predicted with their heavy snow warning. Don't think it got much higher than 20cm though?

[Richard]

Bit more moisture for the farmers then Richard

Yep,just raining here now,the kids are gutted though

[spwill]

I think yesterdays snow over Dunedin was the fourth fall for the Dunedin Hill suburbs this winter. The Highgate web cam was showing only a lightish fall when I looked, shower clouds never looked very deep on the satellite pics.

[Bradley]

Good falls around Hanmer Springs overnight

[TonyT]

When the clouds break between showers I can see snow very low down on the hills around Amberley, probably down to about 100m, but none in Amberley, just sleet overnight.