With all the photos I've been posting recently of our gorgeous outdoors, you must think that NZ is this playground of perfect weather. Well, in fact it's been quite changeable recently. Early summer is like that. The REALLY nice weather is in February. We've just been taking advantage of it when we can.
There are also spells where it's not so great at all. Here's what it looked like as I was stopped at a red light the other day.
It's not so much that it's raining, as much as the wind makes it come down sideways and in big buffeting gusts. It's a bit hard to see in this picture, but what we have here are not one, but TWO umbrellas in a garbage can. As if their owners had gotten sick of fighting with them or realised that they were in a losing battle with the elements, and disgustedly cut their losses, deciding it was easier to go without.
There are also spells where it's not so great at all. Here's what it looked like as I was stopped at a red light the other day.
It's not so much that it's raining, as much as the wind makes it come down sideways and in big buffeting gusts. It's a bit hard to see in this picture, but what we have here are not one, but TWO umbrellas in a garbage can. As if their owners had gotten sick of fighting with them or realised that they were in a losing battle with the elements, and disgustedly cut their losses, deciding it was easier to go without.
3 comments:
The second photo really documents the strong wind and heavy rain; the flag on the top of the building and the two people hurrying to get inside a building say it all! A very wet, blustery day in New Zealand. That's why everything looks so green and lush in your previous blogs!
In 180 degree hemispheric comparison, parts of Michigan got some blustery blizzards yesterday.
Yucky weather or not, your pictures are still quite fascinating - crumpled umbrellas and all!
It is good to see you have some balance in your weather. The rain and winds will make the gorgeous weather even more special. We appreciate Spring/Summer and Fall so much mostly because of the misery of Winter. Still, this year is like heaven here so far. It will come but I am enjoying the reprive for now.
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