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Very unstable coastal forecast from Metservice through the night. Will be interesting to see how it pans out. The front dues look active on the radar.

Wind-change just arrived here

wind change just hit here in Rakaia, thankfully the wind not as strong as last nights stormy arrival.

Hit Rolly 10 mins later with a good blast

Gusty SW here too. Few showers/ band of rain moving in soon. Probably followed by a few heavier hail showers and that snow level will drop in my opinion maybe 3-400m on banks Peninsula. It should all retreat to the coast by early morning. That's how I read the models. Nothing to get excited about this event

Light snow falling here temp 0.8

woa, check out the wave heights
http://www.metocean.co.nz/wave-buoy

^ Wow! Phenomenal max-wave of 17.9m (about the height of a 5-6 story building)…

These strong winter SW wind flows can be strange, here we are at the moment with a light NE breeze, just had a hail shower now its snowing

There is enough southerly in the flow to get some decent wintry showers into Dunedin this morning with the very cold trough crossing.
Still mild here, around 14C, much cooler here by this evening.
Next week looks like a much better weather week across NZ

spwill wrote: Next week looks like a much better weather week across NZ

Yes looking forward to it, need it to keep painting our house.

Some beefy snow showers in Dunedin courtesy of the webcams..
http://www.dunedin.govt.nz/council-online/webcams

Queenstown on 0C at 10am , Dunedin 2.6C and overcast /showers. This system will be one of the colder systems of the year.

Nev wrote:^ Wow! Phenomenal max-wave of 17.9m (about the height of a 5-6 story building)…

Its now at 19.4 meters max sig wave height!

Well the snow has settled down to about 170m here. We've had a few flurries at home (@20m) but the hills across the road have a light covering down to just below 200m. Motorway north from Dunedin is closed, and from the traffic cam, it might be a wee while until it's open. A chilly 3.0°C here at present.

edit: scrap that, the roads open again......

Mild on 17C here. Could get our first light frost of the year Monday morning.

Tornado Tim wrote:

Nev wrote:^ Wow! Phenomenal max-wave of 17.9m (about the height of a 5-6 story building)…

Its now at 19.4 meters max sig wave height!

Thats amazing, are they the highest its recorded so far?

yes, that is the highest since it was deployed (you can see that on the graph)

A good near Gale SWer here, 14 to 15C

Manukau heads obs wrote:woa, check out the wave heights
http://www.metocean.co.nz/wave-buoy

F-f-f-f farrrr out!!

Rather chilly day it turned out today....Had a few more snow flurries this morning, with some decent flakes coming down at times. Went for a run in one of them which was fun. Temp dropped to 2.3°C during one just before lunch time. Sun poked out a bit this arvo, so managed to get to 5.3°C for a short period. Currently 3.8°C.
Does this mean we're in for a cold winter? The consensus round here over the last few weeks is that we could be in for a ripper.....

At least for June Tony is going for a warmer then average month but sliding into some colder weather come July and August..

Desert road with a bit of the white stuff this morning..

wind went from coming off the sea (SSW), and so was 12c
now suddenly has switched to a SE wind, i.e coming over land, and now its suddenly 8.9C here and dropping (with the sun out)

Got down to -0.9 last night, so a decent frost.

this Cold SW with good snow we just had was like the good ol days for this time of year (may)