White Christmas!?

[MacD]

I thought that seeing it looks like we might have the novelty of a White Christmas this year in NZ :cold: we could post some pictures of the weather in your region at the moment!

I'll kick it off with a picture of the hail lying on the road outside my place in central Auckland at 8am this morning! Nice tyre tracks - don't think I'll get the RF out just yet!

Did anybody get any pictures of the lightning last night?

I expect those of you further south to outdo this photo quite quickly!

Where's the :sunny:

[MSTRS]

Ahhhh...summer in Godzone. Don't even need a fridge for the beer. Now if I could just find out where we can get studded tyres.......

[Ghost Lemur]

If this weather keeps up I'm packing the family and emmigrating to the warmth of Sweeden.

[ZorsT]

this photo was taken at 3pm yesterday afternoon, at the end of my driveway (with 4X digital zoom)

{edit}I must add that that mountain is only 1800m high ( MT ruapehu is 2800m), so snow on it is quite rare, and thats the lowest i have seen it for ages,{/edit}

[Racey Rider]

Mt. Taranaki got a decent dump of snow last night.
View from New Plymouth (my place) this morning.

[Skunk]

I would add to this but it's far too sunny and dry here. :sunny: :spudwave:

[ZorsT]

and this is one good reason to live in Canada. :sunny:

[NinjaBoy]

Not that much further south but this was our backyard at 8am this morning. :disapint:

All sunny now though :sunny:

[MSTRS]

I would add to this but it's far too sunny and dry here. :sunny: :spudwave:
B.....d liar

[Ms Piggy]

I thought that seeing it looks like we might have the novelty of a White Christmas this year in NZ :cold: we could post some pictures of the weather in your region at the moment!

I'll kick it off with a picture of the hail lying on the road outside my place in central Auckland at 8am this morning! Nice tyre tracks - don't think I'll get the RF out just yet!

Did anybody get any pictures of the lightning last night?

I expect those of you further south to outdo this photo quite quickly!

Where's the :sunny:
Ummmmmm - your pic is X-rated, that must've been some filthy hail!

[MacD]

Ummmmmm - your pic is X-rated, that must've been some filthy hail!

Well it was a Xmas theme!

Fixed now (next time I'll read the instructions before I tick the box! ;) )

[Hitcher]

Mt. Taranaki got a decent dump of snow last night.
View from New Plymouth (my place) this morning.
Ahhh, my mountain. Shot, as is often the case, from the wrong angle.

(gone all nostalgic now...)

[Skunk]

B.....d liar :laugh: Am not! Just cos you live in a rain hole :kick:
OK, so it's normally nice and sunny there :sunny:

[MSTRS]

:laugh: Am not! Just cos you live in a rain hole :kick:
OK, so it's normally nice and sunny there :sunny:
Yeah.....normally :sunny: .........can't understand Hewie these days :confused: :weep: :no: still, shouldn't complain....had it better than most I suppose. Bloody wind is the worst......hard to pick a line and hold it!!

[pete376403]

Theres a pretty good dump of snow on the Rimutakas - probably miles from the road, but I cans see it from the end of our street in Upper Hutt.

[Motoracer]

Me and my Dad just came back from tramping through the Tongariro crossing. And what a white christmas to remember!

IT WAS BLOODY AWESOME!!! Freakin high winds, snow fall for most of it and we got some big chunky icy snow (hail) at the creator too.

Unfortunately I couldn't get any pics from the summit cause I was holding on for dear life with both hands and feet due to some rather high wind speeds but I have attached some pics below from other parts of our journey. I took them when the weather suprisingly cleared up for short moments before things got exciting again.
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I met some German Mountaineers near the top who decided to turn back cause of bad weather. One of them was having a go at me and calling me stupid for wearing shorts and cheap Warehouse boots instead of proper gear and boots with cramp-ons. :laugh:

The weather changes so quickly up there. In 30 secs, the sun will come out, then it'll be 100kmph+ winds, then snow storm type of conditions, then hail maybe then all fine again. I just love it how you can really realise the awesome power of Mother Nature and how helpless and venerable us mere mortals can be in those environments. It just doesn't get much better than that I tell ya! I had the best seats in the house for some of the crappy weather that was going around! :rolleyes:

[MacD]

IT WAS BLOODY AWESOME!!! Freakin high winds, snow fall for most of it and we got some big chunky icy snow (hail) at the creator too.[/color]

I guess you're lucky the creator was in a good mood, could have been fire and brimstone! :devil2:

Some friends are planning to do the crossing today, including a guy from the UK who came out here for a summer holiday! Hope he takes a camera with him.