Sick of the weather / alleged "summer"
 

Anyone else heartily sick of the weather?

Wettest March in history.

I tend to joke that NZ has 6 months of Winter and 6 weeks of Summer. Looks like that has come true, again.

There's one guy I know who ahs had his home flooded 4 times in the last few weeks now - each time it's been a "1 in 20 years" or "1 in 100 years" occurence! Ha. You're joking.

Official. Weather here stinks.

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we didn't really have a summer, now its autumn we need to be weary of the ides of march

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Wellington airport has been cancelling flights all day due to this, taken 16.30


https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C8Dki_FVsAAE_Pf.jpg

fog on the tyne comes to mind

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This summer has been a bit of a wash-out admittedly. But still better than a good UK summer :p

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Odd

I thought New Zealand has 12 months of glorious weather??? That's what I was told

Dam that stuff media :)

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Beautiful day today where I am. 25 deg and fine :thumbup:

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Tell me about it, it's been 'orrible!! The Warehouse is chock full of Arctic fleece blankets and electric heaters once again. The rain has been insane and my washing hasn't dried properly for weeks. I just re-washed another load today for the second time, as it was just festering in damp and getting smelly.

Utterly depressing to think clocks change this weekend. :thumbdown:

Roll on November!! I had to laugh at this

http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/we...ington-winters

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Latest mental-ness about the great wet in Auckland - Watercare calls for more water usage cuts despite heavy rain - National - NZ Herald News
Quite an eye opener.
We're all doomed.;)

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See, you're heading into classic kiwi head-in-the-sand territory there.
To most of the world temperature is not the epitome of a weather report.
As Auckland frequently proves - the temperature can be good, but the weather can be foul.
To me weather is about what is physically happening - clouds, rain, wind etc. Temperature is not weather. To kiwis, it seems temperature is the weather?

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I'd say the 6 weeks of summer was good. Not denying that.
But I'd expect March to be summer.

It ain't been. It's been horrific. Storm after Storm. Can't say I'm up for this, if that's what we got in store.

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Nobody claims that the weather in New Zealand is one long permanent summer.

There is a winter too but it is short and over in just nine to ten months.

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PMSL - so right Clappy. :goodpost:

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:goodpost:

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Did you not read the bit "fine" which means no rain. :lol:

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There has been the occasional 'fine' day in Auckland as well, in amongst the mostly 'not-fine' weather.

BTW, it was the mention of the temperature that triggered me. Gets me every time.

I can't watch the weather reports on TV these days with their overwhelming focus on what the temperature has been today / will be tomorrow. Find myself fuming "So What, what's the actual WEATHER going to be?!?"

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It is all MrBEVS fault. He bought the Intex para pool which has gone a bit wonky due to a little bit of subsidence after several heavy torrential downpours. :unsure:

To be fair he has plunged into it, with a fair bit of grim determination, during pouring rain and lately he has been risking his manly bits as it quickly turned into a Scandanavian plunge pool. Thank goodness for the indoor hot shower.

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During a small window of 'fine' a couple of weeks back we went for a walk on the beach and was surprised to see some kids playing around in the water, so I dared to dip my toe in to see if it was warm. :rofl: It was bladdy freezing!

Next minute, some dude came sprinting down the beach, showing off and ready to do a Hoff and dive straight on in. Oh how we laughed; his stride soon came to a screaming halt, as soon as his little tootsies touched the water.

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OK. So, I had a whinge a while back. But. SERIOUSLY!?
What the actual is going on.
Does anybody else think that now should still be pretty decent weather?
I keep reading about places getting 'a month's rain in a day'
I keep reading about it. Not once every now and then.
This is now weekly. Daily.
Auckland's had it's wettest March EVER. March. Isn't that summer in NZ?
And now it's rain warnings again.

I am seriously seriously unhappy about this crapola.

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Stay safe everyone. It's still hosing down here and has been for past few hours; the sheer volume of water on the roads driving home was blooming scary and heaps of stuff on Facebook community pages with flooding and landslides all over the place. :thumbdown:


Live: Cyclone Debbie remnants hit NZ | Stuff.co.nz

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Appalling weather in NZ is nothing new. But this feels different now. It's like something really has changed. It doesn't feel like this is just something that will happen once in a while. It's going on too often now to ignore those doubts that it's something else, worse.
If this is global warming, it's coming fast and it's the end of us.

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I don't know, yeah it's been pretty wild at times and that bloody wind at the beginning of summer was maddening but we've had some lovely stretches of weather and a huge number of gorgeous days (BoP), certainly I'd say it's been a better 5 mth stretch Nov to March than you'd see in the U.K. over the June - Oct period, we swam in the ocean last week, certainly would never swim in England in October.

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Right, I'll have none of this moaning about summer. You make the most of the summer you've got, not the one you want. There is no reason you can't still have a nice trip out to the seaside, get fish and chips so you can sit in the car with jackets rustling and watch the rain fall on the windscreen as it fogs over with condensation. You've gone soft you lot have. In Scarborough there is a near hypothermic child being asked what sort of ice cream they want. There's no Kiwi summer you can't enjoy with some bloody minded determination and the overwhelming desire to inflict senseless misery on your families with a few arguments and visit to a garden centre on the way. This is the perfect chance you've been looking for to let your Britishness shine through.

Mustn't: Grumble.
Must: Carry on with...the things. Probably after a nice cup of tea.

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We've had 177 mm of rain so far and it is now raining again after a small window of sun. I'd say this is the worst 'summer' that we've had in the 10+ years we have been here.

Infact it's just been months of wet really from last July.

Charismatic, I shall endeavour to carry on regardless and drink a large mug full of Yorkshire tea :nod:

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I'd go along with that.

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The reports of a cliff crumbling into the sea near 'Waiake' beach in Auckland - that's 2mins walk from us. Our area is forked. And we're being told that 'the worst is yet to come'...?

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I arrived in August last year and some people have suggested I'm a weather jinx. We didn't get that glorious stretch of summer days they had in BoP down here and I think I've started to acclimatise to the almost constant cool, wet and windy weather. I've not really noticed a change in the seasons from August through to March, it's been fairly constant with maybe the odd warmer day in February and early March.

If and when the weather improves, it will be a nice surprise I think :cool:

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I read somewhere that we've had more than half a years worth of rain over the past month :yield:

After a short reprieve this evening I can hear it's just starting again.

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Quote of the year.
Thank you so much. Haha.
I'm nearly crying with laughter.

I'm due to come out at the end of the year.
None of this is making me change my plans :)

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& why should it.

Bring yer flippers and rubber ring.

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Basically, this is all down to those Australians.

They sent Debbie our way and we should hold them fully responsible for our bad weather

Do we send crap weather to them?

NO :o

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Yeah that's pretty much my impression in Auckland too. A windy start, but from late Dec through mid March some super stretches of good settled weather. Yes, there's been two short spells of very wet weather, just now and earlier in mid March but even in good summer that's not unusual.
It's only earlier April, and they'll be plenty more warm days yet, it's the nights that a drawing in that make things worse, especially now summer time has ended - always seems to end early here in NZ, being early when the UK is the last weekend in October, transformed that would be effectively the end of April here.

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Mmmmmwhahahahahahaha. You are dreaming.
January was crap. It was cloudy non stop, we hardly saw the sun. You'll recall it was all over the media. There was even a petition started by a Government Minister to push the official summer holidays back into February - using as evidence the state of weather in January.
Then, just as schools started back, it came good and we had a really banging February. But that was it. By the second week of March summer was over and it has been record-breaking rains - FIVE of them, not two...??? You obviously haven't suffered the flooding that so many poor souls have either.... since you dismiss them so lightly?

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Don't get me started on temperature-as-weather... Why do people care what the temperature is - at the expense of the actual weather?

I can just imagine the residents of Edgcumbe, Clevedon, Coromandel etc saying to themselves "It's Ok, it's still 20 degrees.." as their house floods for the fifth time in as many weeks.

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Had a great summer in Hawkes Bay:cool:

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As usual :goodpost:

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OK then, not withstanding the thunderstorms predicted again mid week, we'll still some some decent spells of warm and settled weather.

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It's been total crap.

I've been here 13 years. It's been complete and utter rubbish and so say all of us where I am.

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It's blooming unnatural is what it is. How many times can it be reported that "some areas will get a month's rain in 24 hours"? By my reckoning this is the SIXTH time that line has been trotted out in the last 6 weeks.
It's becoming a weekly event.
Believe me, I have lived in the Auckland region since 2003. Therefore I have unfortunately seen more rain than most people living in the world have. But this is just unsettling. I really struggle to comprehend people who just brush it off like it's somehow normal, or that we should just get over it, cos it's still 20 degrees???
If we get another few months of it, I will be off. Yes, I'm serious. I can't live in this - no-one should have to.

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Why not come and join us all in Chile ? You can choose the kind of climate you want, except tropical; houses are made to withstand earthquakes, have central heating , and many other advantages also. I just returned from a visit to Nelson, where I was lucky with the weather, which fortunately turned out to be totally different from the forecast !

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Well it's not looking good is it. Severe weather warnings all over the place. Even Dunedin has mobilised its emergency centre.

Batten down our hatches.