Next 3 days weather summary:Light rain (total 2.0mm), mostly falling on Thu night. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 5°C on Thu morning, min -5°C on Tue morning). Winds increasing (moderate winds from the WSW on Tue morning, stormy winds from the NW by Thu night). | Days 4-6 weather summary:Mild with light rain (total 6.0mm) on Sun afternoon Becoming colder with a light covering of snow, mostly falling on Sun night. Freeze-thaw conditions (max 6°C on Sun morning, min -4°C on Sun night). Winds decreasing (extremely windy from the WNW on Fri morning, light winds from the WNW by Sat morning). | |||||||||||||||||
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clear | clear | clear | cloudy | some clouds | clear | clear | some clouds | rain shwrs | snow shwrs | snow shwrs | snow shwrs | clear | clear | cloudy | rain shwrs | light rain | mod. snow | |
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 cm | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 |
mm | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 2 | 4 | — |
max °C | -3 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 1 | -3 | -1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 1 |
min °C | -5 | -1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | -2 | -3 | -2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | -4 |
chill °C | -12 | -7 | -5 | -1 | -7 | -4 | -2 | -2 | -2 | -13 | -14 | -12 | -6 | -3 | -8 | -1 | -6 | -14 |
Humid % | 63 | 60 | 53 | 34 | 53 | 69 | 66 | 73 | 72 | 70 | 77 | 54 | 48 | 50 | 42 | 62 | 60 | 75 |
Freeze m | 950 | 1550 | 2150 | 2800 | 2600 | 2700 | 2650 | 2550 | 2700 | 1900 | 1350 | 1400 | 1750 | 1950 | 2400 | 3300 | 2300 | 1850 |
 | 6:54 | — | — | 6:52 | — | — | 6:50 | — | — | 6:50 | — | — | 6:48 | — | — | 6:46 | — | — |
 | — | 6:00 | — | — | 6:01 | — | — | 6:02 | — | — | 6:04 | — | — | 6:05 | — | — | 6:06 | — |
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Latest snow reports near Mount Lyford:
| Top snow depth: | 95 cm |
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| Bottom snow depth: | 35 cm |
| Fresh snowfall depth: | 8 cm |
| Last snowfall: | 31 Aug 2026 |
| Snow Alerts | Create Alert |
0.4 | Bluebird Powder days Fresh snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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1.3 | Powder days Fresh snow, limited sun, any wind. |
0.9 | Bluebird days Average snow, mostly sunny, light wind. |
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Overall 3.4 Based on 11 votes and 4 reviews
For those of us whom relish club atmosphere fields - Mount Lyford is one of the best that New Zealand has to offer. The snow gods were with us on our visit of 2008 with base of 400cm and 200cm of that being powder, only a dozen local 4wds and a blue bird day. Being a young student and not owning a flash ride, the ski field owner even towed us to the carpark as Billy the Civic could not handle the ride up - gotta love Kiwis. As our last ride on our return drive home to Nelson from the crowds at nearby Mt Hutt, I had the best day in over 15 years riding with the Mount Lyford experience: great team, great snow and no showponys - just a hill covered with lovely white stuff and fantastic people enjoying it together; Bliss. Only gripe was no halfpipe, maybe it was buried that day aye? =)
jamie heemskerk from New Zealand writes:
For those of us whom relish club atmosphere fields - Mount Lyford is one of the best that New Zealand has to offer. The snow gods were with us on our visit of 2008 with base of 400cm and 200cm of that being powder, only a dozen local 4wds and a blue bird day. Being a young student and not owning a flash ride, the ski field owner even towed us to the carpark as Billy the Civic could not handle the ride up - gotta love Kiwis.
As our last ride on our return drive home to Nelson from the crowds at nearby Mt Hutt, I had the best day in over 15 years riding with the Mount Lyford experience: great team, great snow and no showponys - just a hill covered with lovely white stuff and fantastic people enjoying it together; Bliss. Only gripe was no halfpipe, maybe it was buried that day aye? =)
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