Zardnaar
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Cool spring day. Rained for a bit.
Oh, the weather outside is...
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82, cloudy and it just sprinked-very light rain.
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8 degrees Celsius at 4pm.
Bonyduck Campersang
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Blistering heat. Most people walking with umbrellas.
At least it's getting cooler gradually: expected to be 35°C by Saturday/Sunday
At least it's getting cooler gradually: expected to be 35°C by Saturday/Sunday
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Come share my bunker in NZ. It's called the South Island
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Moody old mage.
Finally the temperatures are coming down after two weeks of "exceptionnaly hot weather".
We're down to being "only" 6°C above the normal temperatures.
Yay.
We're down to being "only" 6°C above the normal temperatures.
Yay.
I remember when that happened here. I'd just moved to a new apartment, which was a basement suite facing west. September just isn't supposed to get 30C+ here, and it was too hot to stay in that place during the day. So I made up a place in the kitchen for Chloe and Maddy to sleep, made sure they had plenty of food and water, and took myself off to the nearest air-conditioned mall.
This went on for over a week, and it was so hot that things didn't even start to cool down until about 4 am. I didn't get much sleep during that time.
The flip side was that when I moved out of there a year and a half later, it was March 2013. I picked a day to move, and didn't anticipate any problems with the weather, since it had been warm for several days.
Of course the day I moved, a snowstorm blew in...
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Storm brewing. Maybe today's the day the weather finally flips
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Queenstown just had a waterbourne bacteria outbreak, now they're getting flushed out by a tonne of water.
Meanwhile, Twizel was almost on fire, then got flooded today as well. I hear snow was also on the cards.
It's also raining in Chch, so I couldn't go out on my bike today. But it's been pretty windy everywhere the past few days too. So windy even Wellingtonians notice...? Probably the least of the problems that people are having with the weather here. I feel like NZ gets a major weather event every month now.
Meanwhile, Twizel was almost on fire, then got flooded today as well. I hear snow was also on the cards.
It's also raining in Chch, so I couldn't go out on my bike today. But it's been pretty windy everywhere the past few days too. So windy even Wellingtonians notice...? Probably the least of the problems that people are having with the weather here. I feel like NZ gets a major weather event every month now.
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Southland floods every decade or two it's close to wettest part of the country. Very bad one 84.
Queenstown and Wanaka flooded 1999.
Between Christchurch and Invercargoll a lot of towns have a river or creek through them.
Not sure if that's definitive Dunedin had major flood works built 1920s iirc and they built over reclaimed land with a high water table.
Canterbury plains and lower Waitaki valley and Tairi are flood plains. We built on them go figure.
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80mm rain overnight.
And snow
And snow
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The winds changed and the smoke cleared here today. I went from 650 steps a day this past week to a 7 mile hike in sweet relief.
More hell here. Still too warm. And it's almost October.
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Cool night tonight 
Maybe now the weather'll take a turn
Maybe now the weather'll take a turn
bene_legionary
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Back from a camp in the Canterbury High Country. It snowed this morning, when the forecast was rain like hell... and the past week it has been raining when it was meant to be sunny and vice versa.
What can you expect from (nearly) West Coast weather? Well, rain... but some snow, too : )
What can you expect from (nearly) West Coast weather? Well, rain... but some snow, too : )
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Mt Peel?
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Argh, it looks like I'm crap with NZ geography, the High Country is far south of where I meant. We were near Hanmer Springs – through Cannibal Gorge, Ada Pass, Waiau Valley, and Fowler's Pass. 3 day tramp in total.
