Solstice Day

[micheinnz]

It was very hot (31C) and very windy today. My laundry was blown off the line. Trees and power lines came down. My mother-in-law's power went out and her greenhouse self-destructed -- panes came down and aluminium framing all twisted

Comments

[mactavish]

That's what we call fire-weather, here :/

[micheinnz]

Turned out to be, up in Canterbury.

[quoth_ravynne]

Today is between -2 and 0 degrees, and currently it has stopped snowing. Christmas day forecast is between -6 and -12 and sunny. Oh boy, time for a BBQ!!!

[quoth_ravynne]

I think the weather was too rubbish to see the eclipse here anyway. http://news.bbc.co.uk/weather/forecast/331?area=WR14
Not exaggerating the weather, that's my local forecast!

I miss the long summer evenings, but I sympathise with the agent. When I left Dunedin in June and got to London in July it was incredibly hot and humid (I know, that can't possibly be London I'm thinking of, but it really was). But what hit me more than the opposite side of the world time-zone was the fact that the sun wouldn't set until 10.30 at night, and then the damn thing was peeking through the windows at 5 in the morning!!! Ohhh I didn't sleep properly for about a week, it was dreadful. So get-lagged and exhausted, but the light and heat stopped me from sleeping! I miss though really. I wasn't made for cold weather, I go numb and hibernate!