The people who warn us about weather told us the second half of winter would be cold.
This weekend they’re right.
It was -3 when we went up Mt Iron in Wanaka yesterday morning.
It got down to -8 in the Lindis Pass late yesterday afternoon and it was -3 when we got home.
We woke to a very hard frost and even with four layers of merino and sunshine it doesn’t feel like it’s got past zero yet.
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Even in the temperate climate of the southern Rangitikei
it reached -2c this morning Hp. With family near Alexandra
we dont mention the cold very often – they just laugh!
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Even a minus (just) here in Akaroa this morning, that is rare.
I still claim the coldest place in NZ in my experience has been Mystery Creek at Field Days When wearing wollen longsleve underwear, wool shirt, corduroy trousers, woollen sox, ski jacket, gumboots with liners, balaclava and oilskins the cold still seeped through with that dampness felt in few other places.
The big difference apart from those spectacular times of hoar frost with fog and no sun that the Maniatoto does so well is the usually dry cold of the SI vs insidious damp cold we too often had in the NI.
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We had a couple of cold foggy days in Cromwell this week so can’t complain about the cold now we are home
Definitly multi layers of merino weather though
Looking forward to a wedding in France next month
No sign of your snow man, on the Lindi looking for a hitch hike to Fiji, well there was a heap of melting snow that could have been his remains
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