Polar Blast - August 7-11

[shovelopikis]

Snow shower here, nothing major, will come and go as day goes by but temps not that good here for next 24hrs so doubt anything will settle from this event...it's always the non forecasted events we get good snow?

[einzack]

We had snow down to about 300m around Reefton overnight. So none in town at all - last snowfall we had in town was 2012. The Paparoa's are looking very beautiful today.
But it's a lovely winters day now @ 12.2°C with full sunshine. Will be an interesting few days with -9°C predicted tonight and tomorrow night. That's damn cold - never seen that forecast here before. We had -8°C forecast in July when I recorded -6.2°C so it'll be interesting see how near -9°C we get too.

[hozza95]

Still getting good beefy snow showers through here. Thought we had all our lot when the temp was 4 and sleeting but woke up from a Nana nap and saw heavy snow once again falling

[melja]

The headline did say "snow bombs" not bomb guys as a ref to the snow falling out of trees in the lewis pass, dont get to excited.

[Nev]

Fair comment melja...

The initial 'teaser', ''Snow bombs' hit south' was a bit misleading though.

And the June examples cited also implied a 'bomb' type of event.

[shovelopikis]

Temp dropped 5c in 15 mins....could very well be snow settling tonight then me thinks at this rate...

[SnwAddct]

Theres some precip headed your way now shovel

[Orion]

5.5 degrees and a brief fall of very white graupel pellets floating down

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Light but steady snow here from about 10pm, last night with isolated bits overnight, but nothing much to write home about.All gone in the morning with rain washing it away.

[Bradley]

Yep it looked like someone fell over with a bag of icing sugar here overnight but it still was snow settling so that's a first since I moved here

[matttbs]

Well it snowed all night until about 6am, very heavy most of the time. Got 15cm, everything still has a thick coating now which has started to freeze..

[Dean.]

Didn't stop sport in Ashburton today

[SnwAddct]

Couple webcam pics from this morning..

[hozza95]

Wow we got absolutely hammered over night here 10 cm of overnight snow from midnight onwards, this after metservice had told us the worst was over

[jamie]

It looks like there is a dusting on the hakarimata (above ngaruawahia). Hard to tell if it is or not tho with it being trees. That's just over 300m. We have been getting showers here at 3-4 degrees (40m) so would that make snow at 330m possible?

[Ice Maiden]

After yesterday being a most miserable wet day with rain, sleat, hail and snow in the higher hill suburbs of Dunedin we have opened the curtains just now to a really heavy "proper" snow shower which is starting to lay at 60asl

[NZstorm]

It looks like there is a dusting on the hakarimata (above ngaruawahia). Hard to tell if it is or not tho with it being trees. That's just over 300m. We have been getting showers here at 3-4 degrees (40m) so would that make snow at 330m possible?

It will be hail Jamie.

[Manukau heads obs]

hail though would not settle on tree tops....
been as low as 5.8C here with showers going through..thats cold for us!

[spwill]

Snow showers for Arrowtown this morning dusting the area white, showers might be just about over now though
photo

[Richard]

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

[einzack]

Gladly, the forecast -9°C did not eventuate.
We got to -4.1°C which is nothing special, and now we're sitting under very thick fog and -3.2°C.
Often the fog stops us from getting to the lows forecast, but that didn't happen this morning as -9°C was never going to happen.

Trying to delay heading out for a 3 hour run until it clears but I'm gunna have to give up and brave it me thinks.

[Skywatcher]

Stuff may have changed the headline…
...
Edit: Also another Stuff headline from earlier in June… 'Snow bomb hits the south'

I see "'Snow bomb' hits the north" on the Stuff home page this morning The article linked to has a different title though...

Stuff will often change the title of a story and I'll click on it thinking it's something I haven't read.

[Bradley]

Winds turning more southerly, Christchurch and the plains should start seeing some action in the next 2 hours or so...

[Manukau heads obs]

I see reports of lots of snow on the Taumarinui Saddle Road (from Turangi)

[snowchaser01]

Snowing to sea level in parts of ChCh currently!