So, Wellington has a reputation for being really windy. Since I arrived in February I hadn't experienced much that would live up to the rep...until the last few weeks. It turns out that Spring - down here in the Southern Hemisphere it's Spring - is the windy time of year.
This week has been the most extreme so far. Sitting in our office we can hear the wind whistling eerily through the buildings and today we watched as a giant poster was more or less ripped from the side of a nearby building.
As the news video here shows it can be pretty risky even trying to cross the road. 146km/h is just incredible. I'm bloody glad I wasn't on a plane trying to land here today. It's come at an appropriate time as the city has just chosen the 'Wellington - Blown Away' design for a sign on the hillside by the airport. As the clip mentions this followed some pretty fierce opposition to the original 'Wellywood' proposal.
The good news is that it should be settling down in the next few weeks and then we're in the middle of summer. I'm still getting used to the idea of a warm Christmas!
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