No more gales, downslopes,fog, massive downpours, mountain waves, storms, cold inversions, frost, sleet/hail, or cold please, cos I’m sick of it. LOL January, we had all of that. Just a few more nice and mild, calm days like we had today. Only had two days like that this year. A frost in late January is a real croc and so was sleet. Now I await the climate reports all about how good it has been on the Kapiti Coast this season. The way things are going, we’d better save money to pay for big heating bills this winter cos it isn’t looking good. El Nino is my biggest dread, we get the South Island East Coast climate with that … utter drought, hope it does not arrive this year. Still have bad memories of 2002, which here was far worse and much longer than 2013’s drought and then followed by 3 years of floods. The farm here had to be abandoned in 2002 and livestock shifted north, as it was just so arid with no real rain from 3 months, followed on by a droughty cold winter. Our climate never came right again after that.

Hi Phil

Thanks for the update, great as usual. I can’t believe how cold it is in the morning here in the Waikato lately.

It will be very interesting to see what happens at the end of next week with all that tropical activity. The way the highs are going to be lined up it seems to be leaving a very inviting doorway for a sub tropical low to waltz through between two highs.

By the way I was in Whitinga at the weekend & we got very little rain which was quite surprising. I did expect some Sunday night but got none 

Cheers Dave