The weather is all over the place lately. After days of gale force winds, the next prediction was for a polar blast, travelling up from the Antarctic. We had a lovely mild sunny morning, then the skies darkened, the temperatures dropped dramatically, and down came the hail. It was short, but very dramatic.
Hail stones on the back deck
Front deck and path
It may well be Spring, but the weatherman reminded us that Old Man Winter hasn’t quite loosened his chilly grip just yet. We have to expect more bad weather before it gets better, we were told.
Hail arrived from the south
A cold snap has swept up the South Island bringing snow and closing some roads. But it is the South Island farmers and their stock suffering the most, with many new born lambs and calves arriving in the middle of the bad weather. Up here in the North Island both the Rimutaka Hill Road connecting Wellington and Wairarapa and the Desert Road in the central North Island could receive a dump of snow. Brrr, we will be switching on the electric blankets tonight, that’s for sure.
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