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Posted on Friday 8 June 2007 at 07:26 - Post Comment

Another great sunny day today.  It got me to thinking that June here is the equivalent of December back in Blighty.  That'll be wall to wall grey skies, plenty of rainy days (though not so much in recent years), the odd English Channel gale blowing through, and those occasional, oh so appreciated blue skied sunny days.  Temperatures up to 10 or 12 degrees on the best of days, but usually hovering around 7 degrees or so.

What a difference here in Christchurch!  Admittedly it seems that we are coming to the end of a particularly golden weather period, but for the past 4 weeks daily temperatures have regularly been in the late teens and even early twenties.  We've had clear blue skies for most of it, and although the evenings cool down rapidly and we've had the first frost, overall it has been fantastic.

As a hater of the long, interminably dreary UK winter this really has been (quite literally) a breath of fresh air for me and I've been loving it.

All good things come to an end though, and this weekend will see what is called an 'Antarctic Dump' (at least I *THINK* that is what they called it!) weather system coming through.  It has already dropped some snow in deepest Southland, and the passes we happily drove through on the way to Queenstown last weekend have now got a decent covering.  Something weird though and I'm not sure what to make of it, but no disasters have been reported on all of the news channels!  No one has been trapped in their car overnight as the gritter hadn't made it through 2cms of snow.  The schools were all open.  No one headed to the shops to stock up on bread and milk.   In short though, the whole South Island has not come to a grinding halt. 

NZ - same same, but very, very different