Was there any doubt that we're in the Roaring 40's?
According to the weather guru's ie., our guides - the weird Easterly flow of an La Nina weather pattern has "left the building" and the windbag El Nino is moving in for the summer.
It's dumping down with snow on the west coast, which is great to fill in all those crevasses ready for the summer climbing season and prime ski touring months of September & October. But over this side of the divide we've been getting some extraordinarily strong wind - gusts up to 140km/hr!! Whit decided, wisely not to get the kite out for kite-skiing this week!
If you are weather geeks like us and you'd like to understand more about the El Nino & La Nina weather effects - here's the link to our NZ long term weather forecasters - NIWA.
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