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Thread ID: 100359 2009-06-04 20:44:00 Blimey it's cold out there! Greg (193) PC World Chat
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779725 2009-06-05 01:16:00 here in Pukengahu (where's that:stare:), we've been down to -3 at 8am, but generally followed by a nice day.
Lowest I recorded was -7 in 2001, we had hoar frost that winter which didn't help the new trees I'd planted, at all.
Someone said this'll be the coldest winter since the 1930's and a farm consultant told me the other day, that it's due to lack of solar activity. He has records going back many years, which at face value, tend to point to this being the case, I guess we'll just have to wait and see.
jcr1 (893)
779726 2009-06-05 01:30:00 Just got off teh phone to a freind in Brisbane, 18 deg, Poor buggers. Thats swimming weather. Metla (12)
779727 2009-06-05 01:32:00 This morning my car was covered by a thin layer of ice. First time I've ever seen ice on a car in my 9 years living in Auckland! qazwsxokmijn (102)
779728 2009-06-05 01:33:00 Blardy cold here this morning service truck wouldn't start had to spray ether down intake and jump start from boat battery.
My wife has had fire going during the day and we are chewing through the firewood compared to other years, its just clouded over and not so cold now.
Seems a bit severe for first few days of winter some years we can go through whole winter without a killer frost.
I am now a Global warming skeptic.You can get frosts in Brissy.
prefect (6291)
779729 2009-06-05 01:39:00 Funny, I lived in Brisbane for a number of years, Never saw a frost as far as I can remember.

The coldest day we had was 8 degrees and the pussy Aussies refused to work, wanted the day called off so they could go home. And it was always good fun to drive up to Noosa in the middle of winter and go for a swim, The water would have a few kiwis in it and the Aussies would be rugged up like a southland farmer.
Metla (12)
779730 2009-06-05 01:41:00 Ok I know they have frosts at Amberly which is near Brissy my sis lives there. prefect (6291)
779731 2009-06-05 01:42:00 I thought every Winter was the coldest Winter since whenever! ;)

Even though I grew up very close to the Southern Alps and we couldn't wait until the puddles froze enough so we could skate on our way to school (oh to be a kid again), it was nowhere near as cold as some areas.

I can remember coming back from UK and telling an ex resident from the Cotswalds how beautiful it was. He replied in somewhat less polite terms than this; "You haven't been there when it is covered in six feet of snow"
Marnie (4574)
779732 2009-06-05 01:55:00 I don't mind the drop in temperature that comes with winter, I enjoy a cold clear day, Its the damn rain that ruins it. Metla (12)
779733 2009-06-05 02:11:00 Napier Airport to 9am Fri 5 June
Min temp: -1 °C
Max temp: 12 °C
Rainfall: 0.0 mm
:)
Trev (427)
779734 2009-06-05 02:21:00 Napier Airport to 9am Fri 5 June
Min temp: -1 °C
Max temp: 12 °C
Rainfall: 0.0 mm
:)

You got it Trev, although you forgot to mention the brilliant day we are having. We really torture ourselves by living in the best town in the world. We don't want to many outsiders finding about it though, as we are already being swamped by retired Aucklanders, Poms and Springboks :p

Ken
kenj (9738)
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