Winter 2012 (June-August) - Southern Hemisphere (moon, night, storm, city)

[dunno what to put here]

Originally Posted by RWood

Yawn. I won't even bother replying by posting any one of many news items from many parts of the globe, about major warmth events in the preceding months.

Just give it a rest RWood, sheesh!

[Patricius Maximus]

Originally Posted by RWood

Yawn. I won't even bother replying by posting any one of many news items from many parts of the globe, about major warmth events in the preceding months.

He's posting news of interesting cold weather and snow events. You don't have to have a climate-change agenda, cooling or warming, to appreciate it.

Originally Posted by SophieLL

A 6 celsius night in BA!!

Now, THIS is what i call winter!!! yay!

Well, you finally got some cool weather. You might just have turned the corner from summer into autumn from my reckoning . Seriously, the first 6C evening in my dream climate occurs in September (converted to Southern seasons, that's March, as opposed to June in B.A.). Of course Buenos Aires and Sophieland are much warmer than Patricianopolis, and I'm sure you're enjoying it. I'd be soaking up the brisk air myself if I were in your place, though it would be too little, too late for me to enjoy "winter".

[Cambium]

Here in the NorthEast U.S I'm used to seeing and hearing about "Nor'Easters"...pretty cool to read about "Nor'Westers"..



Heavy snow ahead for South Island - national | Stuff.co.nz

An emergency warning has gone out to coastal residents near Thames to be wary of flooding as the combination of a king tide along with a low pressure front hitting the country is raising tides to abnormal heights. Police had already received some reports of flooding in Auckland

Meanwhile, large areas of the South Island are bracing for heavy snow as a band of stormy weather bears down on New Zealand.

MetService is warning that up to 100cm(39 inches) of snow could accumulate above 300 metres(984') in Canterbury and Marlborough, although it has cancelled severe gale warnings for parts of the lower North Island and Marlborough Sounds.

"This is likely to be a highly significant snow event for Canterbury and Marlborough making travel very difficult and causing stress for livestock. Heavy snow could also damage structures such as powerlines,"


The snow would be brought to the area by a sharp front that was expected to lie over the central South Island this evening.
In Canterbury and Marlborough south of Seddon rain was expected to turn to snow late this evening or overnight. In the 27 hours from 9pm, 50cm to 100cm of snow may accumulate above 300 metres, while south of about Lake Tekapo between 10cm and 40cm was expected

[ChesterNZ]

Interesting weather today. Overcast, but quite mild, the temp staying around 15 C from noon until after dark. Started raining in earnest in the evening -- we've had nearly 20 mm so far.

As for the potential snowfall, we're still fairly mild here on 7 C just coming up to midnight. Further down the coast they're sitting on 2-3 C. I'll be surprised if there's not something on the hills come morning, but as far as a significant sea-level snowfall, I think it's all just media hype. That's my intuition, anyway.

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Just give it a rest RWood, sheesh!

My sentiments exactly.

[Weatherfan2]

LOL I'm actually on the side of RWood on this one, finding all this advertising and picking out of cold events to support some agenda very tedious and boring.

[dunno what to put here]

Why does there always have to be an agenda? If you care so much, post stories of record warmth in the southern hemisphere yourself. It isn't a big deal at all.

[Weatherfan2]

Originally Posted by dunno what to put here

Why does there always have to be an agenda? If you care so much, post stories of record warmth in the southern hemisphere yourself. It isn't a big deal at all.

I don't know mate. It's boring isn't it? I personally have no such agenda hence I don't feel the need to bring attention to either stories of cold or warmth. From now on I shall just ignore these threads. So called "unusual" cold or warm deviations in weather have been happening since the advent of time, that people consistently report one side of it (i.e. the colder events) over the other just to support their anti global warming agenda is beyond me personally! As for myself I really have no or little opinion on the nature or reality of global warming myself, hence no agenda and no compulsion to create or contribute to these one sided threads.

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by ChesterNZ

As for the potential snowfall, we're still fairly mild here on 7 C just coming up to midnight. Further down the coast they're sitting on 2-3 C. I'll be surprised if there's not something on the hills come morning, but as far as a significant sea-level snowfall, I think it's all just media hype. That's my intuition, anyway.
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Yup. Media is media, they need the "attention" but you would know more than me on this, are they saying snow to sea level? I only read one article so far and I read most of the snow would be above 950 feet. I do see they say this "Between 10cm and 40cm may also accumulate in the area from 100 metres to 300 metres, while lesser amounts may fall to near sea level"

Not sure what "near" would mean there but do you think there's a chance and at what level? Here in the U.S I hear hype for everything including 2" of rain. LOL but I dont have access to what they say as much as you do.

Also, Is 3 feet of snow impressive for 300 meters with one storm June 5th?

[Flight Simmer]

Originally Posted by ChesterNZ

Interesting weather today. Overcast, but quite mild, the temp staying around 15 C from noon until after dark. Started raining in earnest in the evening -- we've had nearly 20 mm so far.

As for the potential snowfall, we're still fairly mild here on 7 C just coming up to midnight. Further down the coast they're sitting on 2-3 C. I'll be surprised if there's not something on the hills come morning, but as far as a significant sea-level snowfall, I think it's all just media hype. That's my intuition, anyway.


My sentiments exactly.

It always is just media hype. The bigger the hype, the bigger the fizzlaaaahhhhhh

You should see the idiots on the Australian Weather Forum predicting doomsday and "biblical this" , "batten down the hatches" ,"biggest event in years" blah blah blah. Latest example of such hype is in this thread: The Australian Weather Forum • View topic - Burst of winter 23rd - 27th May

All we got was a few puffs of wind almost strong enough to shift stray particles of dirt and boring lame drizzle all day

And here they are conceding defeat
The Australian Weather Forum • View topic - Burst of winter 23rd - 27th May

[SophieLL]

Originally Posted by Patricius Maximus

Well, you finally got some cool weather. You might just have turned the corner from summer into autumn from my reckoning . Seriously, the first 6C evening in my dream climate occurs in September (converted to Southern seasons, that's March, as opposed to June in B.A.). Of course Buenos Aires and Sophieland are much warmer than Patricianopolis, and I'm sure you're enjoying it. I'd be soaking up the brisk air myself if I were in your place, though it would be too little, too late for me to enjoy "winter".

I am!

Today morning when i get out of my house, the sun was shining, sky completely clear and bright blue, and temp was 5 celsius! I couldnt ask for a better morning!!!
Now, 11 celsius, still completely sunny, and with the cold air....this gotta be one of the best days of the year! This are the days i love and look forward to for most of the year!