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Snow Day
« on: July 24, 2011, 04:10:22 pm »
Bit of cooler weather has hit all of NZ yesterday and today...

View from the back door this morning.


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Back garden.


Tree on the roadside.


Not a lot of snow by some of your standards, but the heaviest here for about 15 years.

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2011, 04:17:34 pm »
Just enough to be pretty.   :)
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #2 on: July 24, 2011, 04:29:05 pm »
The pictures are "cooling".
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 04:33:37 pm »
Sure does look nice.

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #4 on: July 25, 2011, 05:40:21 am »
Early snow by the looks of the blossom?  I can wait until Nov- Dec for it to come here.
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #5 on: July 25, 2011, 07:41:56 am »
Early snow by the looks of the blossom?  I can wait until Nov- Dec for it to come here.

Nope, middle of Winter here. Snow isn't unusual, but it's usually melted by lunchtime. This dump was still falling at midday.

We went for walk about 4pm, it had cleared up, but still plenty of snow on the ground.
This shot looks up toward the mountain and the palm trees suggest a different climate.


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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #6 on: July 25, 2011, 08:34:07 am »
That looks like heaven right now.

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #7 on: July 25, 2011, 12:26:17 pm »
That looks like heaven right now.
I'm with ya on that one!  ;D

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #8 on: July 25, 2011, 10:13:04 pm »
Every now and then when it's hot like it has been lately (100+), I'll swing into the Circle K gas station to pick up some Miller Lite. I'll walk into the beer cooler and it feels soooooo good. I just linger for a bit. It's like finding winter in July. I love it.

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #9 on: July 25, 2011, 10:15:22 pm »
that snow looks nice about now. It's been HOT and HUMID here!
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #10 on: July 25, 2011, 10:21:56 pm »
It was 48 degrees at our camp this morning and I am stuck here. ::)
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #11 on: July 25, 2011, 11:54:34 pm »
I love winter.  I prefer it.  I hate working outside in the Illinois humidity and heat, soaking a shirt in no time at all.
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #12 on: July 26, 2011, 02:58:11 am »
If I were there I'd be rolling around in that snow.   :D   
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #13 on: July 26, 2011, 02:49:00 pm »
We got a heavy frost but no snow at our place.  This is the mountain from the top of the farm

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #14 on: July 26, 2011, 07:37:35 pm »
Yea, not much by our standards but it sure look nice. I also love working in winter, especially after this past week when we had 101 actual and a feels like temp of 116.
But last Jan-Feb I was putting up maple sap tubing and tapping on snowshoes because the snow was 4' deep on the level, and one section of woods which is on the lee of a large open field and the woods drop off at 45-55 degrees. There the snow was up to 7' deep. I'd rather have what you got.
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #15 on: July 26, 2011, 08:03:14 pm »
Mapleflats, you would miss the maple syrup iif you moved down here.  I planted a sugar maple years ago I couldn't get much in the way of sap as we don't get enough of a temperature change to cause a rising of the sap.  It was worth the effort of growing it just for the autumn foliage.
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #16 on: July 27, 2011, 04:41:17 am »
Snow on the (shaded) front lawn finally melted this afternoon when the rain set in.

Having it on the ground for 48 hours is pretty unusual here.

Back to the normal cold and wet winter weather  :D

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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #17 on: July 27, 2011, 12:35:59 pm »
I'ts sure strange hearing of you having snow in July.  :D
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #18 on: July 27, 2011, 10:29:34 pm »
I was just thinking the same thing, Tom!
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Re: Snow Day
« Reply #19 on: July 27, 2011, 11:54:59 pm »
...the palm trees suggest a different climate.
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Those don't look like Nikau palms. What kind of palms are they?
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