June 13th, 2009
Not much! Extremely foggy this morning – came right up to our window!
But it cleared by the time we finished breakfast, however in the meantime the forecast rain didn’t arrive so I had to wear my gumboots around town as a fashion item rather than protective footwear. No matter, it was good practice as spring fashion in New York this year is ALL about the gumboots.
June 1st, 2009
A very orange sunset reflected in the building across the road. I guess a sunset and visible clouds is proof that it has stopped raining for a while now!
May 31st, 2009
It’s official – stuff.co.nz reports this morning
“An antarctic blast of snow, hail and sleet ushered in the first day of winter, bringing snow to sea levels and the first flurries in downtown Wellington for 14 years.”
May 31st, 2009
Is that snow in Wellington? Is it?!
Have been watching rain and hail outside my office window all morning and I’m sure there was actual snow just before! Man it’s cold today! Jiff twittered that he’d seen snow so it must be true – he’s from Chicago after all.
Update – 2 hours later
This time I’m definitely sure and positive that it snowed. Just for 20 seconds, just long enough to get a reasonable photo. The Mister ran downstairs to catch some but by the time I got there it was over and he was standing there with a little lump of hail in his hand.
May 30th, 2009
For everyone who brushes off Wellingtonians when we say “it’s so cold I’m sure it’s snowing” – the Metservice today has issued a snow warning for the region!! I’m sure it won’t be in the city but still, when do we ever have the hail/snow graphic on our weather page?!
And right now, Metservice reports the wind chill as -1 C! About to head out to work in an hour so that’s going to be horrible!!
May 25th, 2009
The rain and southerlies have been pretty relentless over the last few days and the weekend was particularly cold and nasty.
Here’s an amazing shot that I captured from a video making the rounds on Twitter at the moment of the storm yesterday – I’m pretty sure this is looking across Lyall Bay from the airport to the houses on the hill in Kilbirnie/Melrose – that wave looks enormous and as though it’s going to hit the coast road at full force!
May 23rd, 2009
We’ve arrived to Gotham the last couple of Saturdays by coming along Harris Street – gives a different view through Chews Lane to Willis Street. You can see the shell of the building still left standing at the end of the lane, in the building site between Willis and Boulcott streets. Seeing as they’ve carefully taken out all the windows it must be staying.
And bit by bit they’re taking the scaffolding and netting off the Chews Lane apartments. They’re pretty dominant on the Willis Street skyline now.
May 21st, 2009
Saw this great photo on stuff.co.nz just now – we have a few lonely big mountains in NZ and they look stunning when they stick straight up out of the earth covered in snow. This is Mt Taranaki – if this is covered head to foot then it must be really white in the South Island.
May 19th, 2009
I’m not very good at being sick. Just getting over a head cold now – thankfully no more than that but it was still a pretty awful one to bear. My head (not my nose, just my head) felt so blocked and aching. Couldn’t even work for a day – gasp! I just lay on the couch and watched re-runs. I never realised CSI Miami is a totally ‘pretty’ version of CSI – everyone in clothes that matched the office, flawless makeup, slow-mo forensic analysis shots and David Caruso being all moody and mono-syllabic in his sun glasses. Was a bit of a laugh really.
I’m not very good with the drugs either, just lemsip and vitamin C. Only lasted 2 days but the weakness will hang around for a while.
May 12th, 2009
On the way to work this morning I saw that someone had tried to pretty up the road works that seem to be taking permanent residence outside our office – they’d made a paper flower to adorn one of the marker cones!
