Sleet Showers

[Andy]

Light sleet is falling here with the snow level around 400m. Any body else getting this?

Gary you are probably they only other observer that may be experiencing this. I would say the snow level is lower inland.

Temp 3 degrees
Rainfall 7mm YA

[tich]

Looks like a warm advection snowfall overnight and early this morning in the inland valleys and basins in the South Island high country. Not much of a time gap between the departure of yesterday's cold southerly and the incoming front/trough.

Light sleet is falling here with the snow level around 400m. Any body else getting this?

Gary you are probably they only other observer that may be experiencing this. I would say the snow level is lower inland.

Not surprising - it was certainly forecast by MetService. Cloud has thinned out from the north in Chch with some weak sunshine. Darker still to the south.

[03Stormchaser]

Light sleet is falling here with the snow level around 400m. Any body else getting this?

Gary you are probably they only other observer that may be experiencing this. I would say the snow level is lower inland.

Temp 3 degrees
Rainfall 7mm YA

Has any1 heard from gary? Hasnt been on in a while

[03Stormchaser]

Looks like a warm advection snowfall overnight and early this morning in the inland valleys and basins in the South Island high country. Not much of a time gap between the departure of yesterday's cold southerly and the incoming front/trough.

Light sleet is falling here with the snow level around 400m. Any body else getting this?

Gary you are probably they only other observer that may be experiencing this. I would say the snow level is lower inland.

Not surprising - it was certainly forecast by MetService. Cloud has thinned out from the north in Chch with some weak sunshine. Darker still to the south.

Check the noon rain radar!! got off the BP coast!!

[spwill]

I see the Met Service is saying snow to low levels down South early next week . I can't see it in the charts I'm looking at.

[NZstorm]

Yes, a bit of warm advective snowfall, as predicted by Met Service.

Midday thickness over Invercargill was 5377, not an excessively cold atmosphere but a low level easterly knocked the freezing level down to 500m. We have seen this a number of times this winter.

Hence, never rely on thickness to predict snowfall in inland South Island.

[tich]

I see the Met Service is saying snow to low levels down South early next week .

If this snow event happens and affects Canterbury to low levels, it would be deja vu. 28th September 2003 brought a major warm advection snowfall to inland Canterbury.

[Manukau heads obs]

latest rain radar shows lots of rain around the south canty area
quite impressive actualy

[03Stormchaser]

latest rain radar shows lots of rain around the south canty area
quite impressive actualy

tis rather , be interesting to see 9pm radar, why isnt CHCH getting any thing

[spwill]

Warm advective snow inland is still possible but to get it toward the Coast you need a feed of very cold air or the very cold air to be in place .
Warm advective snowfall along Coastal parts of Otago and Southland is very rare.

[03Stormchaser]

Well the 9pm radar has a shower passing overhead, not all that heavy but still its something, much heavier out to sea off the BP coast

Aaron nice wee group of strikes out SE of us! Back raining hard!!

[03Stormchaser]

Now some off the Weat coast!!!

Phew this is almost a sport!!!!