Heavy rain and gale-force winds are expected to continue battering the country today in the latest of a series of spring storms.
Since the wild weather began a week ago, roofs in Southland have collapsed under heavy snow, and farmers have reported damage estimated to cost more than that caused by the Canterbury earthquake.
More than 87,000 households across the central North Island have been hit by power cuts, with power companies still working to restore electricity to the remaining few today.
A MetService weather warning issued today said another spell of severe gales was expected in some eastern areas, including Wellington, and a period of heavy rain was forecast on the West Coast. TVNZ
I know that the weather is a bit of a dull theme, but one cannot escape it here.
Spring has arrived. That is the equinox and not the change of the calendar to the first of the month.
So the wind has arrived, and today boy has it arrived.
It has been hard enough recently with the cycling recently, but today it is blowing you over strength. At the same time, it has been quite sunny and seductive. Elsewhere the weather has been appalling. Terribly cold and wet with snow in Southland, and very wet in the rest of the north island.
It seems that for a change Wellington is having the better of it!
The desert road.
