a weekend of weather warfare

we were the victims of weather warfare this weekend just gone, 3&4 march. the weather heads and mess media dubbed it a 'weather bomb'. interesting choice of words, but apt too, considering terrorists use bombs and usually know where they want them to detonate. severe weather warnings were issued for many parts of the country.

saturday morning dawned with pissing down rain and screaming winds coming up from the south. and it was fucken freezing. only the first few days of autumn and already it's feeling like winter?! i smell a rat! so it rained basically all day saturday and the wind gusted at at least 100kph where we live.

all the above pictures were taken between 7.42 and 8.05pm the evening of saturday 3 march. that was the 'front' going over our place in north wellington. do you see how clear the sky is through the clouds? i'm not sure if they're apparent in any of those photos but i saw chemsmears painted against the sky. did some dickhead pilot go flying up there and lay them while the storm was raging or were they laid somewhere further down to come up on the wind?






if we thought we were over the terrorist attack then we were wrong. saturday night just got worse where we live and sunday morning showed destruction all over the garden. sunday was freezing, windy as all fuck and it pissed down most of the morning. it's weather warfare, i tell you! sunday arvo it got a bit better - wind was still howling and raging but at least it had stopped raining.

 sunday evening about 7.51 pm we had heaps of shitty stuff coming up from the south but then above our place we had the clear sky. it was like our neighbourhood was the 'stop point' or something for the storm. the clouds just cruised on up slowly and just broke apart over tawa to reveal that lovely clear sky above. look closer though, they left us some aerosol goodies - just to let us know who's boss.

the picture to the left shows what was coming and the one above shows how it just sort of petered out and became clear. very strange...
by late sunday night all we had to contend with was the cold. it was freezing!












and so now here we are monday morning and the day promises to dawn beautiful and clear, but someone, somewhere, has other plans for us...

chems chems everywhere, to ruin and mar the day.