This is the strangest "winter" I've ever experienced. Australia has snow and New Zealand doesn't!
My observatory is at the summit of a mountain, at almost 2,000 metres ASL. It is surrounded by commercial skifields and the Southern Alps and Mount Cook (NZ's highest peak) looks so close to be almost touchable. But yesterday I was digging another pier footing on the mountain and became so hot I had to strip to shorts and t-shirt. There is no snow up here at all when there is usually at least 30cm of it. The temperature was 7 degrees C at 8 PM. (Although we are above inversions, and it was significantly cooler at lower levels.)
Now I'm seeing pictures of Aussies with snow on their cars and lawns!
What's next?
