The Antarctic blast
Well I have to say there are some advantages to being able to work from home. I do not plan to leave, and remarkably I have no appointments scheduled in town for the next three days except to the gym, so with that expectation will be hibernating at home this week.
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August 15th, 2011 at 9:50 am
Was preparing to go to work in Christchurch today but then a fresh blast of snow made me reconsider.
August 15th, 2011 at 9:54 am
So DPF, do you still subscribe to the unauthenticated AGW. Or do you now say, PC, Climate Change. (As if it never did).
The fact of the matter is that we have been conned.
We are, sadly, locked into Kyoto. But if anyone tries to tell me that beyond 2012 deserves the slightest consideration – BULLSHIT.
Time to look at the science – not the gravy train BS.
[DPF: I think annual mean temperatures are a better guide to climate change, than a very cold week]
August 15th, 2011 at 9:59 am
The global warming conspiratists will be very silent. Like the devil they return at a later date. I will suggest January.
August 15th, 2011 at 10:00 am
Is this really going to be a thread about global warming?
August 15th, 2011 at 10:03 am
Sounds blissful.
Re: global warming: I was just thinking this morning – we want to turn the economy upside down in exchange for (a bit) more of this? No thanks.
August 15th, 2011 at 10:06 am
This is proof of AGW. When it’s hot ,when it’s cold,when it rains,floods,blows etc etc etc. It’s global warming and it’s whiteys’ fault.
So get guilty and pay up.
August 15th, 2011 at 10:15 am
@kowtow
EVERYTHING is caused by AGW
For examples (600+) of the havoc AGW has caused, look no futher than:
http://www.numberwatch.co.uk/warmlist.htm
August 15th, 2011 at 10:27 am
Forget the AGW stuff, this weather. I know the warmenists jump on every hot day to crow about “Climate Change”, but it’s all just weather, really.
This storm has the most snow I’ve seen around low lying areas for a long time though. However, until snow is seen in Auckland it isn’t the best I’ve seen. Plenty of snow around Hawke’s Bay though…
August 15th, 2011 at 10:55 am
Just been feeding out. There’s 150mm of snow on the paddocks & not an exposed leaf of grass on the property.
In any case I’m not taking any chances with AGW & intend to do my bit. The ute needs updating next year & I’ll be looking for a coal powered Hummer.
August 15th, 2011 at 11:07 am
The global warmists will say this is an extreme event which typifies global warming.
But, looking rationally at this, you see the reason for the cold weather is a great big high and a big low positioned perfectly to efficiently suck cold air from the antarctic over NZ.
I doubt this is evidence of climatic change one way or another.
Good to see snow in tauranga though
August 15th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Snow in Tauraunga? Winston Peters is holding a press conference?
August 15th, 2011 at 11:18 am
Snowing again now in central Wellington!
August 15th, 2011 at 11:20 am
wreck 1080.
Where’s the snow?
I’m at Matua – no snow here. Just got back from Bethlehem – very cold, but couldn’t see any snow on the Minden of the Kaimais.
Just curious.
August 15th, 2011 at 11:22 am
Forget the Hummer, if you are really serious about doing your bit you really need one of these
August 15th, 2011 at 11:28 am
Andrei
Might involve a bit of hire purchase or renegotiation of the mortgage.
August 15th, 2011 at 11:29 am
We can’t get down our drive and its snowing again – still I have a happy little girl, no school and a happy wife, no school teaching
August 15th, 2011 at 11:40 am
Just uploaded my earlier blogpost with a photo of snow at Parliament! Lots of snow very close to Wanganui, and the front that’s dropping snow on Wellington at the moment is headed our way.
http://keepingstock.blogspot.com/2011/08/more-global-warming.html
August 15th, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Left our house at 0530 this morning for an hour run – outskirts of New Plymouth – before flight up to Auckland. Was, with wind chill, -9 when I left. Coldest Ive ever been in NP. Had everything covered in thermal running gear, gloves, beanie, all except face – which was blue when I got home. Lovely run, but Im only just now starting to warm up. Nice seeing the house covered in snow, snow makes everything look pretty. Maybe if it snowed on Hulun Klark she would…nah, always the exception that proves…
August 15th, 2011 at 12:25 pm
hmmokrightitis
I reckon it would challenge anything the weather could throw at us to pretty up Dear Leader.
August 15th, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Is invoking the Clarkenfuerhrer the new Zealand equivalent of godwins law?
August 15th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Ah, snowing on Mount Hulun. Not even PD was brave enough to try that.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:38 pm
Okay – snow flurries on the farm this morning in the Waikato: altitude above sea level of 1000 feet. We’ve had snow in a neighbouring district at various times over the decades but it’s another 500-1000 feet higher up.
But now the kicker. I’ve just parked the car at school to pick up the kids here in Auckland and while walking home was hit by a snow flurry. Very light flakes 1-2mm in diameter but there was no doubt what it was (and I lived through enough Chicago winters to know).
August 15th, 2011 at 2:45 pm
There was a snow shower on the North Shore, Auckland earlier this afternoon. Definitely snow – I’ve lived through enough European winters to know what it snow is. (Some people over at the Herald are arguing that we’re all wrong and it’s only hail. Perhaps where they are…)
August 15th, 2011 at 2:54 pm
Snowing very heavy here in Upper Hutt. I left Wellington city after the big snow flurries just before 12. I’ve never seen it snow so heavy in my nearly 40 years living here. I feel sorry for the poor people in CHCH with houses still not fixed up yet. They must be doing it tough.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Light snowflakes in Newmarket – enough on the windscreen to require use of the wipers but not lasting once it hits the ground.
Yes – I also know the difference between sleet / hail and snowflakes.
August 15th, 2011 at 2:56 pm
Crikey, Snow in Greenlane @ 2.30pm. Didn’t settle but was defintely snow.
August 15th, 2011 at 3:39 pm
Don the Kiwi (576) Says:
August 15th, 2011 at 11:20 am
wreck 1080.
Where’s the snow?
I’m at Matua – no snow here. Just got back from Bethlehem – very cold, but couldn’t see any snow on the Minden of the Kaimais.
Just curious.
Ya need to take your blinkers off Don. problem with you Nats.
Snow flakes in Devonport Rd, Mansels Rd and Bethlehem.
Lots of snow on the kaimais.
Two lots of hail in Greerton.
Must be John Keys fault. It never happened under Helens reign.
Must be that bloody Nick Smith prick that’s caused this. Lowered our CO2 level. Is that like lowering your colestrol??
August 15th, 2011 at 3:43 pm
We need to go back to Muldoon’s time for snow like this in Wellington. Time for some leadership, surely?
August 15th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
Viking 2.
Blinkers ‘cos I’m a Nat ????
Does Pot/kettle come to mind.
? (and I know you’re not a Labour supporter)
Actually, driving down 15th Ave around 2 pm. and drove thru’ a small snow flurry. I’ve seen snow on the Kaimais a number of times, and on the Papamoa hills when I lived in Te Puke, but in 23 years living here I’ve never seen snow in town.
Of course its AGW doncha know.
August 15th, 2011 at 6:23 pm
Poor stock didn’t know what to do. Grass completely under snow, steers going mental can’t work out that dinner is under the white stuff. No power, no milking this morning. I’ve lived here all my life, never seen it snow before. I guess it would be nice if you didn’t have to spend all day in it and we weren’t calving. In conclusion, you can have this stuff.
August 15th, 2011 at 6:32 pm
Jim said it snowed in Auckland, see hell can freeze over.
August 15th, 2011 at 8:26 pm
Will global warming please hurry the fuck up thanks?
August 15th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
No problem, PIA:
http://www.nnvl.noaa.gov/MediaDetail.php?MediaID=795&MediaTypeID=1
But I actually popped in to make a prediction that with DPF hibernating it should be a new record week for demerits!
Especially when he is either bored or, shall we say, indulging…:-)
The question is: will I survive the week?