Albany & South Coast : Summer 2010 / 2011

[Tim S]

sheesh, you should move to NZ floppy, plenty of sunshine over here, not much stable ground but thats another story.

[floppy Profile]

grew up in NZ, spent first 35 yrs of my life there
and yes I know about shaky ground
we lived in Taranaki for 7 years
the photo here was pretty much our viw from the front door
http://www.skimountaineer.com/ROF/ROF.php?name=Taranaki
here is the full size pic


looks cold doesn't it, and our rainfall was in metres not millimetres

Nev

[silvercloud]

Wow, what a beautiful view Nev.

[Fu Manchu]

Never seen Bluff Knoll with so much snow. It looks really different with snow on it...

...Oh

[brayden]

Ah Fu, caught your Bluff

Man catch me a balrog in that mountain, or some mithril

[floppy Profile]

Monday Feb 28
7:00 am

lets see..... last official day of summer me thinks
how can we sum up Albany's weather
"overcast and easterlies" pretty well sums it up
warm humid nights, day temps - mid twenties
not a lot of rain, in fact I cannot remember the last decent front
which is the problem I think

currently 21.2, overnight 20.0
and guess what ??? overcast and gusty easterlies
I don't know how much more of this excitement I can take
the wind picked up quite quickly around 3 am, currently 24 / 33 km/hr at the airport

Nev

[Tim S]

...and you moved to Albany because?!

Your not wanted by the Kiwi police for stealing post boxes or anything are you? I heard there's a huge black market in kiwi paraphernalia over in Oz, that's the reason why 'kiwi crossing' signs are now padlocked onto sign posts.

[floppy Profile]

the rainfall was about 1/2 of what it was when we left
unfortunately Albany's rainfall seems to have decreased further
and no I don't have any Kiwi paraphenalia

Nev

[Fine Elsewhere Profile]

had a phone call from Perth this morning - friends desparate to come south for a cool break - thought i'd give them ur address floppy so u can do a swap for a week got to love that 38km easterly this morning with that bit of drizzle its quite invigorating....so much so that i've had to come in for 2nd cuppa & find something to do in the office cos i've had enough already March will be different & the fishing gear is ready to go........cheers FE

[floppy Profile]

March will be different & the fishing gear is ready to go.

I had better be - I just started a new thread for Autumn and I'm getting sick and tired of typing
"overcast, windy and drizzle"
we need a really decent front to come along and clear things up

Nev

[Lert]

You blokes grizzling about drizzle and cool breezes make me feel quite ill..

5 zeds in one sentence!

[adamD]

Will be in Albany for the final week of March. Will be looking forward to the weather down there. Hopefully just in time for the first moderate cold front of the upcoming winter...

Least Albany wasnt as hot as Perth over the summer.