What's the Weather like at your place?

[nitpicker1]

yet another lovely day (after a brief hailstorm around 8 last night, when I stood in a doorway and said goodbye to my tomatoes lettuces flowering broad beans podding-up peas...  went to town in summertime clothes today, then I lost my cellphone 


 

[Alicat]

yet another lovely day (after a brief hailstorm around 8 last night, when I stood in a doorway and said goodbye to my tomatoes lettuces flowering broad beans podding-up peas...  went to town in summertime clothes today, then I lost my cellphone 


 

Oh dear - any idea where you left it?

... and sorry about your veges doing a runner on you

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Yay.....the is now out in Whakaoriori on the island of Te Ika-a-Maui.

Heaps better than earlier when it was a rather grey (although dry) day.

What a bugger I've gotta go to work soon....

Although, to look on the bright side, once I get home from work later this evening, I don't have to go back until Wednesday 23rd October.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The weather started out crap today at the bottom of Te Ika-a-Maui, but it came right eventually....

[nitpicker1]

Meanwhile on Moturata recent gales toppled yet another ti kouka 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It's blowing like forty bastards in Wellington.

And a shitload of scaffolding on a building site in Willis Street collapsed all over the footpath and the road late-afternoon, fortunately without hitting anybody.

I was at a movie (“Gravity”) at The Embassy when it happened and found out about it when I got the bus back to the hotel and the bus had to divert via the waterfront quays.

I grabbed my camera from the hotel and walked back to Willis Street and took some photographs. They had cleared the scaffolding off the street, but it was still a mess on the building site.













Off to Auckland in the morning....on the train, instead of flying. I've got a free train ticket (perks of the job), so it doesn't cost me anything to get there.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

A rather grotty day outside at the bottom of the North Island following yesterday's storm....

[Ferney]

Windy up here is Aks.  Got home from work and found someones broken beach umberella in my garden.   At work all the recycle bin lids were blowing open.  There will be poly film and paper all over Mt Wellington. 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Rangateiki, mid-morning....













About 30 minutes after those photographs were taken, the train smacked into a slip, a few minutes north of Taihape. The locomotive ended up half-buried in mud, but apart from that, everyone is okay. Eventually a relief locomotive coupled onto the back of the train and hauled it back to Taihape (leaving the train locomotive in the slip) and we are now on a coach, carrying on to Auckland.

Currently at Te Kuiti.

Mother Nature, eh?

[akadaka]

whats in Auckland for you??? musical concert??? or a soy latte serverd by a size 8 bimbo with a tramp stamp

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Take your pick....

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

[ssweetpea]

It was recycle bin day today around here.

Wheelie bin dodgem in other words.

A few fences are down too.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

No strong winds in downtown Auckland at the moment.

More like a gentle breeze.

The only action is coming from the Tuesday night drunks at the Q Bar across the road from my hotel room.

They are bloody noisy buggers.

[guest49]

I dunno - I must live in a bubble that travels round with me.  I'm on the West Coast, which is alleged to rain 9 days of ten, but today was nice, with the occasional shower.
I believe that a farmers paddock up the line got flooded yesterday though.

Even Inangahua, which has a section of state highway that floods whenever the skies turn grey, has remained open, alive and well.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

[nitpicker1]

27.9^c  I wanna go home

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Some photos taken a short time ago in my street, showing what the weather is like at the moment. The wind is still blowing rather hard.













(I was playing with a new toy I just acquired — an ultra-wide-angle 10-22mm zoom lens)

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

A rather nice day in Wairarapa this morning, although a wee bit blustery and the rivers are still running a bit high from yesterday's rain.

Gale force winds are forecast for later.





Over in Upper Hutt (where I'm parked up at the moment due to the line being close between here and Wellington) it is mostly overcast, but the sun is shining through the clouds occasionally.

[nitpicker1]

A front is expected to move up the South Island today (Saturday).
Ahead of the front, northwest winds should strengthen and are likely
to reach gale force in some places.  This watch is for the
possibility of wind gusts approaching warning criteria in inland
Canterbury, parts of Marlborough (especially the Sounds), Wellington
and Wairarapa.  The winds are likely to be strongest from mid-morning

I think our share of it is starting here now   

[AuntyRotter]

Blow the skin of a rice pudding here.      We are supposed to go south this afternoon to Ashburton.  That will be an awful drive.  Crosswinds.

[nitpicker1]

Blow the skin of a rice pudding here.      We are supposed to go south this afternoon to Ashburton.  That will be an awful drive.  Crosswinds.

#1 daughter at Kakanui with commercial glasshouses damaged badly a month os so ago, was getting the wind at 11am...  we didn't get much wind here, just rain from the West.
4pm brought sun again and people coming out of their burrows.   It should be there by now, 'Goo

[Alicat]

It's a tad breezy in Wellington and the Hutt.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It was blowing in Wairarapa early this morning and it's blowing in Upper Hutt now.

I'm sitting in a train carriage at the railway station (waiting while buses take Wellington-bound passengers into the city and bring Wairarapa-bound passengers back) and the carriage is rocking from side to side in the wind. Plus all the trees are bent over at funny angles. However, the sun is shining at the moment.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It'sat my place. However, this morning started out a fine day with clear blue skies and a beautiful sunrise. Across the other side of the ranges, it was also a beautiful morning, however it clouded over by mid-morning. Back in Wairarapa, it was also cloudy by then and the weather has steadily deteriorated since.


Upper Hutt, early morning....




The Mangaroa Valley, mid-morning....




Wairarapa, late morning....