Polar Blast - August 7-11

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Re: Polar Blast - August 7-11

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yep, snow in prebbleton
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Light snow settling in Westmorland approx 300ft ASL at home.
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Snowing at a mates place in Halswell
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Snowing in mairehau
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Snowing in St Albans.
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A brief burst of hail here in Templeton was followed by a dusting of snow but has now turned to very light rain.
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Steady snow flurries here for the last hour, we are basically sea level
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Richard wrote:What ive found interesting with this event is the inconsistent snow line, Mayfield got 15cm of snow while we got rain but yet both at the same height asl. Drove to Kaiapoi yesterday were there was some snow at on the side of the road at sealevel by Saltwater Creek
Have a look on metservices Facebook page, there is a picture of negative satellite imagery of the snow line and how inconsistent it is on the plains
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Was no snow here at 3am just black ice. Had about 3cm at 6am and now snowing very heavy with big flakes again.
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Snow flurries continue here in Queentown, non heavy.
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Still thick snow on the ground but haven't had any snow lately. If this stays on the ground until after dark, we have 3 frosts forecast in a row so could stay around for awhile
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Snowline in south waikato /taupo is 800m roughly, very warm now... a non event for me and very localised reports of snow.
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Decent hail shower here in Auckland
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Looks like a hail storm over raglan from here. Been watching it build. Getting better and better!
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I'm now hearing steady rumbles of thunder from here. Here is a recent pano.
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Dang just had a ripper cg!!!! It was less than 5 seconds to the sound. Shook the house!
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5.2 degrees, fine light rain and graupel falling; smoke from neighbour's chimney is swirling down and passing my house about three feet from the ground :B
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Heavy snowfall here at the moment (nr Sheffield) almost white-out
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Dang just had a ripper cg!!!!
looking at the rain radar, that was the best gig in town :)
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Heavy snow here again now
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Had a brief hail shower in Howick 3.15pm, first time I've seen hail in ages. Seems to be a NE/S convergence.
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Manukau heads obs wrote:
Dang just had a ripper cg!!!!
looking at the rain radar, that was the best gig in town :)
if today had been even just 3-4 weeks down the track there would have been some awesome convection. 9th of September would have had just that bit more heating that we were only just missing today. Even then there was enough heating today for a storm to develop.
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SE wind change here now...so the trough is to east of us here now
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shovelopikis wrote:Snowline in south waikato /taupo is 800m roughly, very warm now... a non event for me and very localised reports of snow.
Looked quite a bit lower than that at the southern end of Lake Taupo (Mt Pihanga) this morning, according to Taupo webcam.
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Gfs had been indicating thunder for the Waikato. There must have been some good hail with that storm.

12pm Whenuapai sounding had 500mb -32C which we don't see very often.
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