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❄️ITS ALL GO - the latest data is suggesting widespread snow on Friday and Saturday about the upper plains and foothills. Sea level flurries are possible, with heavier snow above 300-400m.

❄️Snow and sleet may even linger on Sunday, at lighter intensities.

❄️Note - a brief period of warm advection snow arrives for many southern and central areas early Thursday above 300m.

🌬🧊This will be an extended period of bitterly cold and snowy weather about the hills and upper Canterbury Plains.

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🔎❄️More refinements through Wednesday morning, based on all the latest data we may see tweaks to snowfall accumulations and levels on Friday/Saturday.

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❄️🏒Well it doesnt get much better! Tekapo Springs this weekend. Snow on the ground, snow possibly falling....and New Zealand Vs Australia in Ice Hockey!

♨️What an awesome opportunity and day out.

ℹ️Check the forecast at https://cwu.co.nz/forecast/lake-tekapo/ and wrap up warm!

✅️Mackenzie Region, New Zealand

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Jaymee Joy typical. This weekend coming!

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Love your work ❄️⛈️🌧🌩🌦🌞🌤☀️

🌬🧊Our thought are with our Aussie friends from tropical Queensland! Yes, one team will be keeping a closer eye on the weather more than anyone else - yes, even the farmers.

🏉The Queensland Reds are set to face the Crusaders this Friday night in in the first quarter final, and the forecast is looking bitter! Expect wintry showers, a chance of sleet, and icy cold southerly winds. And with the associated wind chill? Temperatures will feel like freezing!

🌡A little different to the 25 degrees in Brisbane today.

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📷Graphic - Christchurch forecast for Friday.

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Good for the Crusaders game on Friday night

Bring on the new stadium for weather related situations like this coming up.

Queensland had so much bloody rain it's a bog hole. They might just enjoy a bit of fresh air and a sprinkle of snow.

Kylie Williamson where would you rather be?

Michael Passant better wrap up warm!

Hypothermia looks odds on for the poor boys , again

Got the tickets will be there supporting the mighty Crusaders!

Chris Wood 😬

Bev Kent Spike Kent

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Catherine Quinney

Normal winter time

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Biked to Marlborough from Hanmer Springs 😄 Slightly misleading, but technically true! Starting with Jollies, finishing with Jacks Pass; Jollies is brutal. Love it in here! Amazing country and history. Shattered, dropped 3.5 kegs 🤯

Today was amazing. Into the badlands from Hanmer S

Today was amazing. Into the badlands from Hanmer Springs...hot...windy..barren...⛽️ Fuel light came on 10km out, with Jacks Pass to climb from the Clarence side. Fowlers Hut. Empty the tank!

Start to the week ☀️☀️

Start to the week ☀️☀️

It's been a year...First time up the hill in month

It's been a year...First time up the hill in months. Jog up Mt Isobel this evening. Planning now in place for 2025. Time to go to new levels 🙂

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