mickey_d

You do seem to get the rough end of the weather:-

Welly Month to date
to Fri 26 September
Min temp: 2 °C
Max temp: 17 °C
Rainfall: 134.4 mm

Where we are:-
Sunny Hawkes Bay Month to date
to Fri 26 September
Min temp: 0 °C
Max temp: 25 °C
Rainfall: 25.2 mm

It's been Shorts & Tee Shirts all week

crap coffee

oohhhhh

mate, I actually thought about "Liverpool" and what you've said here ...on my way home. and asked myself.....Do I want to live there ? hell no. I'd rather be in Windy Welly

Scouse Dave

Quite - if you don't like grey and cloudy, you'd best stay in sunny Liverpool eh?

Seriously though - what happened to that poor guy in the CBD was terrible - and the whole country is angry about it. Compare that to what happened to a colleague of mine in London in 1998. He'd had to sack someone, and when he left work at 5:30, the guy was waiting for him and stabbed him. Luckily (and it was just luck) he survived, although he was off work for nearly a year and has never got back to normal mentally. (The guy who stabbed him got a fine and community service.... ) His story didn't even make the news. The difference is that here it's still the exception rather than the rule. That said, NZ must look at places like the UK and learn from what's happened/is happening there.

Patrick2007

So long as Welly is windy,grey,cloudy and not too hot like sweaty Auckland it sounds like my kind of place. The climate is similar to Liverpool by the sounds.............tempting......not to get me C.V.out

Patrick2007

Hurrah a sensible poster for once Dave iam coming back,and we are running for Parliament. U will have to come to Welly though stuff Auckland full of weirdos.

crap coffee

grey? hmmm... yes. in winter time. feeling horrible too. I feel worse when it gets cloudy, damp and dark - with such a weather condition, I usually have headaches when I get up in the morning. if it's rains actually I feel (rather) better.

BUt the wind ......oh man. What can you do about it? today I really thought about this. Okay... I won't go out (any more) somewhere far (apart from work) on an extremly windy day like today. going to grocery? absolutely No. I'd rather starve at home than walking in horrible wind. The problem is that I am not allowed to take a car to work, so? I have to walk any way..........:curse: The best solution is.... if you have a car, take your car to whereever you go (on a windy day) if you can. Otherwise stay home!@

Patrick2007

Thats terrible i must have been spoiled in sub-tropical Auckland. I have heard a few tales about "windy Welly". Suppose its ok if u like flying kites!!. Its spring there i thought the weather would be getting warmer?

crap coffee

hell no.

september and October is the roughest months in Welly

In general, September is just kind of what we call "very bad weather" - just makes you miserable enough.

October? As I've mentioned here previously.. lots' of rain!

Novemeber. - start getting warm a bit. with a bit of sunny

Decemeber - Especailly on X mas day. - obviously I do remember.... me and my bro.... when we were younger in Welly.. (I know you don't want to believe this...but) we always turned the heater on and wearing the fleece - strange eh? the weather is usually bad around x mas. - rain /cold etc

Do you know how many layers I had worn today? 8 layers (as always) scarf, thick winter jacket, hat, a thick woolen t-shirt, a cotton hoodie, a cotton shirt, another cotton T shirt, and three layers of cotton underwares. What more can I say

Batty

I had started to write something similar (this is no place for a love/hate NZ thread) but didn't because I was afraid that some people might think I was trying to bury what happened. It doesn't seem to have mattered anyway and you're absolutely right Laura. Shame on all of us who didn't say it.

Patrick2007

Iam starting to like this all the more haha. Tell me have they got round the heating problem yet? There houses in Auckland were cold,i believe they have Gas in Welly is that true? Central heating still a no-no?

crap coffee

Gas ? in Welly?

We lived in Brooklyn(close to central Welly) for 8 years. the house was about 100 years old when my parents bought. an old lady died there alone and nobody knew for a while (months and months) It was scary horrible (dirty old) ghost house but my parents decided to buy it to rent out. but we eneded up living there after some rennovations. There was no gas first time, but my parents sorted it out and so we used the Gas heater while living there but it wasn't very effective I have to say. still very cold and damp. You really can't do much with the dirty old house though you make a huge effort to change it. the house was resonably well insulated to compare other crap houses but. I felt terribly cold while living there. windy? oh no. It's very noisy too (you know what's like - something like ghost sounds) when it gets windy because it's top of the hill.

It depends which area you live in. Not everywhere gas is available (I am not sure about this now - these days??) we were lucky enough that we could get the gas in Brooklyn. But. still power fees were $150~200 month in winter time + Gas (?) :curse: It wasn't cheap

(gas) with Central heating? I even asked my parents about this matter when I was young - because we were freezing .then mum said .......ohh...no no no.no. Central Heating is not allowed! Because it's bloody dangerous. Just having a (Rinnai) gas heater in living room, that's it. but we used the electric heaters each bedrooms - It was very very cold after all. I've had enough coooooooooooooooooooold /crap house :curse:

99.9% people in Welly don't have central heating.

love30stm

some people need to get out more

love30stm

Why are you coming here then duhhhhhhhhhhhh

Patrick2007

Must make a note of that.....no central heating....buy more thermals....right. Either or i wont be going back to Auckland thats for sure. I thought i saw a programme on T.V. once were there was a gas fire in Welly. I must have been mistaken.

crap coffee

Gas Fire?

Ok. before moving to Brooklyn we previously lived in Papakowahi (for 2.5 years) and it was a (3 years old) new house. yes! There was a Gas fire!@ again it was in the lounge. therefore I was freezing in my bedroom/kitchen/bathroom/coridor . also we discovered that the gas fire didn't work very well - switches etc. It wasn't user friendly - kind of crap. and wasn't convenient either. so largely I remember we rarely (sometimes) used the gas fire . the electric heater mostly used. . It was a very big house (5 bedrooms) so cold cold cold.