Snow!!!

The last few days have been beautiful, weather-wise. It's been cool, but not cold; the winds fresh and chilly even, but invigorating. Today I came out of work and walked home (my new commitment to keeping the weight off ...) and it was definitely colder than it's been in a while.

An hour later, I glanced out of the lounge window and spotted this:




... the first snows of winter dusting the tops of the Rimataku Mountains on the far side of the bay!!! A quick check on Accuweather told us that the temp was around 6C with a real feel (ie including the wind chill factor) of minus 4!! We also learned later that the roads over there got closed due to heavy snowfalls .. from Kilbirnie, we can just seeing the outer edges of the snow falls. The road between Upper Hutt and the Wairarapa (Highway 2) was closed for several hours in the middle of the day - this is what it looked like when it opened again:

Maybe this weekend we'll take a short trip ... :-)