Whilst visiting Mum yesterday someone spotted a seal in the river, so naturally, everyone ran over to the windows to take a look- surely enough, a seal who was eating a fish and then clapping his finns at us! Happily swimming around for a good 20 minutes or so- it looked like it was going to tip a kayaker over at one point!
I'm pretty sure this is not "normal Auckland weather"...
It has hailed four times in three days so far, and the second lot today did this:
(My car- took about 5 minutes to make the windscreen clear (and the car warm) enough to drive!!)
(You could hear and feel the ice crunching and making the road slippery under the tyres when driving too! Wasn't overly pleasant, and then the melting of the hail caused it to flood a little too).
The roads and cars and everything was covered in hail stones for ages (an hour later it still is a little bit) while it rained and hailed and rained some more!
It was funny watching people take photos of all the cars covered in it- shows how not normal and rare it is here!
The last time I remember something like his happening was in year 12 (2012) at school lunchtime where people swore it was hail/ sleet/ and some said snow..
Here is a link to the national newspaper story about it too (if your interested)- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11494851
(There was also a funnel cloud spotted about the North Shore area as well, which people were worrying about becoming a tornado)
Here is a link to the national newspaper story about it too (if your interested)- http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11494851
(There was also a funnel cloud spotted about the North Shore area as well, which people were worrying about becoming a tornado)
