Journal Our bad Weather

For the past 5 days NZ has been trapped between 2 almost stationary high pressure areas and these have been dragging down large amounts of moist air from the tropics giving us in the North Island heavy rain and almost 100% humidity at times with temps in the 26-30C. region.

These highs are slowly dissipating and moving away from NZ. A relief to everyone.

I heard at 5.30a.m. on the radio that Saddam has been caught. I couldn't resist getting up and trawling the Internet news sites. Read one site and the other sites are just an echo of the first one. The Sydney Morning Herald was the best one by a long chalk.