So, how bout that weather?
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@taniwharugby said in Summer Storm:
@virgil haha wondered who would notice that...was sitting at the lights about 500m up the road from work, so my average fuel consumption in peak traffic whangarei over that distance was that.
I thought my Holden was bad enough, seems to keep it around 10l per 100km
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@taniwharugby said in Summer Storm:
@virgil mine is usually about 8.0l/100 once I get away form the lights, but about 6.5l/100 when I have to go to the 'big city'
Dargaville?
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@mariner4life said in Summer Storm:
@nepia been a strange summer. Late start to the wet season resulted in some scorching temps over New Years (hottest driest December for yonks apparently). Then it rained a fuck load, cooled everything off, now it's sunny again, and humid as frig.
We are due a really wet Feb apparently, which is good, because we need it. Dam levels have got pretty low (we get heaps of rain, but have nowhere to store it, because, you know, short sighted governments and greenies).
I just want it to be sunny in my long weekends - it can be wet Mon-Thus if it likes.
I guess you guys are used to the wet season up there. My last few years in Sydney have been sunny as days until about 4-6, then it would bucket down with rain and then be sunny again for an hour or two before the sun went down. This year it's all over the show.
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@Chris-B are you getting a wet arse??
A colleague is off to the the Heaphy Track on Sunday....
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@hooroo No - I'm well inland. Hasn't been that much rain on this side of the Takaka Hill (lots in Golden Bay). It's the howling wind creating storm surge that's causing problems. Just come in from cutting up a tree that fell into the neighbour's driveway.
I'd hate to be living in Monaco (the Nelson version) today, though. Waves going through people's properties.
My ex-neighbours bought there a couple of years back - evidently not believers in climate change!
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@hooroo said in Summer Storm:
A colleague is off to the the Heaphy Track on Sunday....
I did it in 1985 in the middle of storm. Landslips everywhere, saw a Japanese guy on his own washed off a boardwalk with a huge pack on his back, seriously thought that he would drown but was on a bend in the river and he washed up on the bank. I'm 6"5 and I was waist deep. 2 guys were killed that weekend on Mt Arthur I think, some sort of earth slip.
Wasn't good but I think the track is a lot better now (and the 2 Swiss girls were nice). I would advise caution, and young foreign tourists for company.
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@tim said in Summer Storm:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11985980
I haven't read the article but does that mean it was a hotter year in 1866??
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Storm is bad enough to cancel a bunch of flights. In orcs and trying to get back to wellies... love Air NZ's messaging, if your travel isn't urgent go home... ffs
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@paekakboyz said in Summer Storm:
In orcs and trying to get back to wellies...
AKL shouldn't be a problem 2k vis in heavy rain, 20kts but only 14 x-wind.
Had a look at Welly (I am going down that way tomorrow) - it is quite breezy- WIND: 330/42KT MAX 59 MNM 22.
Straight down the runway but 59kts down to 22 is "gusty" to say the least. That will be bumpy a ride.
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@paekakboyz ha, AirNZ tried to tell me and 7 other passengers from Whangarei we were late for our connecting flight to Wellington in December, when we weren't...the chaos that ensued was akin to what you expect from Tiger Air, not AirNZ!
I got 150 airpoints dollars out of them for it, and given I only ended up being 45mins later in Wellington than I was supposed to, wasn't all bad.
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when you really want a swim...
Most appropriate sign....
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On the plane, let the rollercoaster ride begin. Meh, anything under 150k/hr is usual wind in wellies!
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On plane. Friends in Auckland messaging us about the weather. Best get another drink
