What's the Weather like at your place?

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Overcast with sunny periods.  20 deg in Copenhagen

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Frosty and partly cloudy in Whakaoriori this morning, although not as cold as yesterday morning....











It looks like the boy racers have been driving over the centre of the roundabout overnight!

[nitpicker1]

Re 1409

Dash cam?


Or "from your office window" ?

[guest49]

Overcast with sunny periods.  20 deg in Copenhagen

There are some lovely places here.  A lot of high rise steel and glass to bugger it up, though and the streets and canals are filled with cigarete butts and trash of every  description from glass to plastic foam. 
As I said, probably the only thing you wont find littering the streets is dog crap!

[Alicat]

Overcast with sunny periods.  20 deg in Copenhagen

From the musical HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSON. The song is Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen. It's a lovely musical - good fun musical in it. For some reason, some sort of disaster or crisis goes with the stage productions. It's almost jinxed. Nice show though.

[Alicat]

Glad your holiday is going well Ash.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

from the Wairarapa Times-Age....

Wairarapa weekend temperatures drop to a chilly -5°C

11:10AM - Monday, July 04, 2016


Early on Saturday temperatures dropped to minus 5 degrees Celcius.

WATER PIPES froze over and temperatures plummeted across Wairarapa over the weekend, sparking a couple of stunning frosts.

But the wintry weather looks likely to settle over the next few days before getting wilder later in the week.

MetService meteorologist Emma Blades said Masterton recorded a very chilly minus 5 degrees Celsius in “the early hours” of Saturday.

She said the frosty weather was a result of a number of factors, with clear skies combining with very light winds and a cold front coming up from the south.

Visiting IT specialist, Simon Young, experienced the icy start to the weekend at a Masterton motel, where the hot water pipes were completely frozen over.

“I turned the hot tap on for a shower and no water came out, and I thought oh no,” he said.

“I knew I had to wash my hair so I quickly wet it and turned on the cold tap, turned it off again to put shampoo on and then washed it out.”

“The water must have been only slightly above freezing. Instant headache all day.”

Mr Young, who normally lives in Waiuku, south of Auckland, said he had “never experienced the cold like this up there”.

“You get the occasional frost but nothing like this,” he said.

“The owner of the motel had to get the plumber in to lag the pipes because they were just so exposed to the cold.”

“Now they have insulation around them so it shouldn't happen again, one would hope.”

“This morning was a better shower.”

The cold snap did not last long, however, with Masterton's overnight temperature on Saturday reaching “just below freezing”, before rising to a comfortable 16 degrees on Sunday.

And that weather looks likely to continue, according to Ms Blades.

“Monday will be another gorgeous wintry day, with some more frost in the morning,” she said.

The clear weather should last until Wednesday, with highs of about 16 degrees Celsius, then deteriorate later in the week.

Thursday would likely see rain across the region, with a chance of heavy rain and strong winds to finish off the week on Friday.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/wairarapa-times-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503414&objectid=11668368

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!! 

The bloody wind has demolished one of the fences at my place, between the house and the backyard....


• Snow in the south, tropical storms in the north — what's up with the weather?

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The Tararua Ranges, as viewed from the Hutt Valley near Manor Park on Wednesday afternoon....




The Tararua Ranges, as viewed from the railway bridge across the Waingawa River in Wairarapa on Thursday morning....




The Tararua Ranges, as viewed from Masterton this morning....




What a difference a few hours can make....the Tararua Ranges as viewed from Masterton this afternoon....

[clint eastwood]

Mmmmm..100% pure NZ..look at that crystal clear river...we must be the most pure country on earth

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Five minutes ago, it was a beautiful sunny day in Whakaoriori (Masterton).

Now it's pissing down, the wind is howling from the south, a thunderstorm is about to hit us and it is hailing.

Amazing the difference a few minutes can make, eh?



Watch out Woodville....it's heading your way.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It's currently the “calm before the storm” in Wairarapa.

This is forecast to hit us shortly after it hits Wellington....

• Wellington shuts down trolley buses as NZ braces for ‘weather bomb’ with 160km/h winds


That's a big contrast from Monday morning when I took these photographs while driving a train north alongside the western shore of Wellington Harbour, heading home to Wairarapa....





The cruise ship is “Ovation of the Sea”, making its second visit to Wellington this summer.

The weather was the same in Wairarapa on Monday and yesterday, except much warmer than in Wellington.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The volcanos of the North Island's central plateau looked great from 29,000 feet early this afternoon....

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Yesterday morning, the clouds started to lift after a couple of days of crap weather to reveal a fresh dusting of snow on the Tararua Ranges…
















Today, there were no clouds whatsoever, so I took some more photographs, all within five minute's walk of my place…










This sculpture has been suspended above the roundabout at the northern end of the downtown area where I live for several months now…




Tomorrow, the weather forecast is for more of what we got today.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Another beautiful day in Wairarapa today, so a trip to Palliser Bay and Cape Palliser was in order this afternoon…

[ssweetpea]

It is spring in Auckland and has been for about 3 weeks. The plum tree is covered in blossom. The daffs are finished.

Summer could be early and HOT.
 

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Sunset colours at Matarawa earlier this evening…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The instant the sun popped up from below the horizon early yesterday morning, as viewed from a locomotive cab in Wairarapa between Woodside and Featherston, just south of the rail bridge across the Tauherenikau River…







The setting full moon as viewed early this morning from Waingawa, the Taratahi area, Carterton and near Dalefield, with all photographs taken from a locomotive cab…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Sunrise this morning as viewed from the locomotive of the first train out of Masterton while crossing the bridge over the Waingawa River…





Taking a photograph like that in difficult lighting conditions from a moving locomotive is extremely tricky, because they are really hard-riding beasts. I used a Canon 6D full-frame DSLR body mated with a Canon EF 24-105mm IS USM zoom lens, extended right out to 105mm focal length, ISO 100, F7.1 and 1/320 second shutter speed. Plus it was a matter of lucky timing in having the sun pop up as the train was passing over that bridge.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Woo Hoo … there is a fucking HUMUNGOUS lightning & thunder storm going on outside my place at the moment.

A shitload of big hailstones pelting down with it too, but bugger all actual rain.

An awesome display of electrical power from mother earth.

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Fine weather in Wellington today complete with a glorious sunrise, but a rather dull, grey day back in Wairarapa…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Beautiful colours in the sky at my place in Whakaoriori/Masterton this evening following sunset.

The first three photographs are looking west-northwest and the last picture is looking towards the southeast…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Today was a good day to visit Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu…





Meanwhile, it was a beautiful day in Hastings…





From the summit of the road crossing the Kaweka Ranges, you could see Mount Ruapehu in the distance through the haze…





And at Mangaweka, an old Douglas DC-3 is slowly rotting away — what a waste…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

The weekend's southerly storm has left a pretty backdrop of snow-covered Tararua Ranges as Wairarapa folks woke up to clear blue skies and sunshine this morning…

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

Sunrise this morning at Mataikona Rocks on the wild Wairarapa coastline, followed by a couple of photographs of Castlepoint…