Saturday, February 28, 2004

Journal. Our Wet Summer

The wet weather is with us once more. Today we are being drenched from a low which started to develop off the northern east coast of Australia, off Brisbane a few days ago and then moved fast to-wards the North Island of NZ.

Waiting in the wings is a topical cyclone just south of Fiji which has passed through the neighbouring Pacific lslands. We are due to get the tail end of it when our present spell of bad weather passes. So more rain to come and high winds as the cyclone tail passes down the east coast of NZ.

Every day the South Pacific weather map shows tropical rain and lightning. Even though it is the cyclone season up there, it is abnormal.

We, here in NZ have been having abnormal rain since early December with fine spells in between. Our garden is reaching jungle proportions from the rain and the heat. Usually we are well into summer drought conditions by now.

We look forward to normally stable Autumn conditions and maybe a dry warm and sunny winter.







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