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A low-pressure system is deepening to New Zealand's south-east and has combined with a large high to the west to pull a polar air mass unusually far north over the nation, Josh Fisher, senior meteorologist with Weatherzone, said.
After last month's snowfall I certainly wasn't expecting any more! We've mainly had a lot of hail intermittantly, but the biggest snowfalls are expected overnight.
What sort of unusually low temperatures are they getting?
The cloudy skies prevent temps from getting too low overnight. But the daytime highs are very low -- Christchurch had a high of 4.6 C yesterday and isn't forecasted to get into double digits for another week.
It doesn't look like we got anymore snow overnight. Many forecasters had predicted we might be getting over a foot of snow, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
To cold sufferers, I feel your pain...
but at the same time this is probably rather fascinating to most people.
You can have it;
I've been cold/too-cold since yesterday afternoon from conditions like
11 C/52 F with a 20 knot wind (25mph/40km/h?) at 3pm
9 C/48 F with a 17 knot wind at 9pm, just walking to and from my car
(fortunately, this is about as bad as it gets here )
Here in Alberta we've had our first taste of fall. Temperatures in many regions below 13C (55F) this afternoon and risk of frost in areas north and west of Calgary tonight.
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