NZ Weather Forum

Looking like N Canterbury should receive some much need rain in the first week of september

Nice to finally be hitting spring after what felt like the coldest winter in a few years anyway.
Although it does look to be a wet week next week, with a brief polar blast next weekend.

Looks like the rain totals have been cut in half for Tuesday/Wednesday in the last few model runs, at least for mid-Canterbury

Well we're at Mt Cook, snow forecast to 500m but none of the locals believe it

Light snow falling here at Mt Cook.

Cold upper air tomorrow should support a few rumbles thunder in the west of the North Island. The best chance for Auckland will be in the evening. Have to see what dps look like tomorrow. Will be good to get a brighter day tomorrow anyway after a few grey days!

Snow now settling at Mt Cook, getting heavier too

Razor wrote:Snow now settling at Mt Cook, getting heavier too

Be a great spot to visit on a snowy day!

Moderate sleety rain here and 2C, getting heavier too

Hmmm it's turning into snow which is a bit unexpected

Absolutely dumping down up here in the alps. Roads might be hairy soon

Heavy snow settling straight away here even though we had a bit of rain beforehand, a couple hundy metres lower than forecast

Is anyone else at my level getting snow?

Glentanner cam http://www.takeabreak.co.nz/accommodati ... .asp?cam=2

Still coming down here thick and fast

Looks like an unexpected extra night at Unwin for us

As luck would have it we are sharing Unwin Hut with a bunch of students and professors from university who are studying the weather. Suspect this is a warm.advection set up.

And still it comes

and to think its 17C here this arvo
(hence warm advection snow event...sub tropical airmass providing the moisture for the snow)

Its intensified again, after a lighter spell now very heavy snow again.

Looking like the cold upper air/convection will reach the west of the North Island by morning.
Looks like there will be two fronts to watch out for, one middle of the day and another mid evening. Ukmet has 500mb temp over west Auckland at midday -25C and -24C mid evening. Dps about 12C along the west coast.

Great to see those snow pics Razor.

That system late Friday/early Saturday could bring a brief downpour to northern regions with surface runoff and local flooding. The ground is sodden in Auckland.

Lucky, spoke to other people in my area this morning and 5mm was about as much fall yesterday,areas to the north even less,Culverden 1.8mm, so still bone dry.

Looks bitterly cold over the South Island Sun/Mon, Wintry precipitation, south eastern parts of the North Island look like catching the very cold weather as well.

spwill wrote:Looks bitterly cold over the South Island Sun/Mon, Wintry precipitation, south eastern parts of the North Island look like catching the very cold weather as well.

Looking like a few cm snow could accumulate at sea level for Otago into Canterbury. 10cm on the Dunedin Hill suburbs.