Antarctic depression ready to pounce

New Zealand Herald
12:14PM Friday June 20, 2008

A large Antarctic depression is roaring away in the Southern Ocean and is set to pounce on New Zealand around Sunday. It's a two prong attack with firstly another area of low pressure forming in the Tasman Sea. The second part to this system is a particularly cold south westerly kicking in on Monday in the far south.

At the time I wrote this story (Friday morning) the system was looking set to dump snow across Southland, Otago, Canterbury and Central Plateau. Some predictions I've seen show snow falling over Christchurch.

And snow-forecast.com has this to say

A strong SW flow will develop from Sunday. This will bring widespread snow to low levels early next week. Update (Thurs 19th Jun, 2am NZ time): The promising forecast for NZ is unchanged. Some heavy falls next week.

Hmmmm we will see I guess .....