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Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Mon 28/09/2020 20:38
by melja
Yep all over here, no real gales or thunder, only 1mm of rain and nearly sunny and warm the whole event. Certainly not storm of the year or decade as some have said for this area.
Currently calm and clear.
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Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Mon 28/09/2020 21:13
by hozza95
First photo was taken at 7pm and the 2nd just now. Quite a difference.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 08:22
by Awhituobs
My daughter in Dunedin reports its snowing there again just now
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 08:42
by Awhituobs
Picture just now
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 08:51
by Nev
Sounds more like straight-line winds. Paraparaumu Aero recorded gusts to 98 km/h before 5pm, so possibly around 120 km/h around some coastal areas?
https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/weathe ... -and-trees
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 09:08
by Awhituobs
There was a squall line....we had thunder and lightning here
Snow settling in Dunedin now
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 09:12
by spwill
Yes, Dunedin with sea level snow this morning, Dunedin catching the Cb in the SW flow, MS temperature there is currently -0.1
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 09:22
by hozza95
Picture taken at 9 am this morning. Temperature is hovering around -1 at the moment and was -2 with heavy snow falling earlier, can’t remember it ever being that cold with snow falling in the 12 years we’ve been here
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 09:35
by tornado
yes the kapiti event was a squall line i reakon. looks like gales this morning for auckland winds already strong.. localised damage possible.
(i did see the news of a waterspout kapiti island though)
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 09:49
by Awhituobs
we are crossing Cook Straight this afternoon
wind will not be an issue as its tending SW
but 4m southerly swells are expected, so that will be fun
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 10:35
by Awhituobs
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 11:13
by Rogue
tornado wrote: ↑Tue 29/09/2020 09:35
yes the kapiti event was a squall line i reakon. looks like gales this morning for auckland winds already strong.. localised damage possible.
(i did see the news of a waterspout kapiti island though)
In strong NW wind events there are always whirlwinds on the water between Kapiti Island and the mainland, you can see wind rapidly descending down the slopes of the island and whipping up the water, often into whirlwinds. The video I saw of this waterspout seemed to be one of these, however it looked enhanced by the cloud above it. Hardly strong convection, but maybe enough to classify it as a waterspout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLi_kZ_fWLA
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 11:37
by spwill
Dunedin on 0.8C at 11.30am, would be a rare temperature in June for time of day.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 12:05
by 03Stormchaser
Snowing in Halswell atm, weirdest snow shower I have ever seen!
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Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 12:07
by tornado
Rogue wrote: ↑Tue 29/09/2020 11:13
tornado wrote: ↑Tue 29/09/2020 09:35
yes the kapiti event was a squall line i reakon. looks like gales this morning for auckland winds already strong.. localised damage possible.
(i did see the news of a waterspout kapiti island though)
In strong NW wind events there are always whirlwinds on the water between Kapiti Island and the mainland, you can see wind rapidly descending down the slopes of the island and whipping up the water, often into whirlwinds. The video I saw of this waterspout seemed to be one of these, however it looked enhanced by the cloud above it. Hardly strong convection, but maybe enough to classify it as a waterspout?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLi_kZ_fWLA
there was a landspout near that area in may this year. it ripped a chicken house apart. that looks to be a waterspout. especially with the cloud overhead but cant confirm.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 12:18
by Captain Salty
03Stormchaser wrote: ↑Tue 29/09/2020 12:05
Snowing in Halswell atm, weirdest snow shower I have ever seen!
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A few flakes blew past here in Burnside, despite mostly blue skies.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 12:29
by mikestormchaser
Reports of snow shower in woolston chch aswel.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 12:40
by Chris W
Seems to be some inland convergence/shower activity in the turbulent SW flow, seen a couple of interesting clouds go past Amberley this morning and there's definitely precipitation inland to the north.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 13:16
by hozza95
It’s 0.1 degrees in gore at 1:15 and haven’t gone above 1 degree so far in late September, crazy. Still getting heavy snow showers coming through
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 14:47
by Richard
Chris W wrote: ↑Tue 29/09/2020 12:40
Seems to be some inland convergence/shower activity in the turbulent SW flow, seen a couple of interesting clouds go past Amberley this morning and there's definitely precipitation inland to the north.
yes, the convergence has just moved over here, gone from a westerly to a southerly along with some graupel
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 15:14
by Nev
Cyclone Tracy wrote: ↑Sun 27/09/2020 13:33
The air mass at sea level has consistently been recording 2c below what global models have been projecting on Macquarie Island over the last 12 hours. EC at 1pm NZT projected the island at -1c, actual is -3c. The coldest of the air is still to come. The BoM observation which has operated since 1948, is likely to break it's record tomorrow for the coldest September day its recorded. This is a very rare post equinox cold shot heading towards NZ.
BoM observation
http://www.bom.gov.au/products/IDT60801 ... 4998.shtml
Webcam
https://www.antarctica.gov.au/antarctic ... ie-island/
Macquarie Island did indeed beat its previous lowest Sep Tmax of -1.4C with a high of just -2.4C yesterday arvo…
Low Sep Tmax records also look likely to fall today for places like Dunedin, Invercargill, Gore and Alexandra...
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 16:54
by Richard
Its been lightly graupeling for over an hour now
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 20:30
by Chris W
Wind was still cranking well through Sumner this evening, nice refreshing run! Some amazing farm videos on Twitter of snowy paddocks, not that the farmers in question are too happy which you could expect.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Tue 29/09/2020 20:47
by hozza95
A milk tanker got stuck on the road about 1km from here tonight and they had to get a grader out to clear the roads, the snow drifts on that road are insane, surprised the council didn’t close the road earlier.
Re: Spring Weather Bomb - Gales and Snow - 26th - 29th September
Posted: Wed 30/09/2020 09:35
by melja
Was snowing in the hundalees yesterday afternoon, settled a little on roadside grass
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