Yesterday got very cold very quickly, especially considering the day before we'd been sweating from the weather. We even resorted to having to turn the winter heater back on. Then the wind came up, then rain, and all of a sudden it was bloody full on. Above is one of the pictures in the set linked, which shows the storm coming in from the south east, straight ever top of us by the look of where it was heading.
Reports of up to 160kmph wind gusts, trees snapped off. I'd gone into the bedroom later to look out at the traffic and see how Natasha was going in there as it was getting very noisy with the rain, wind and thunder. I open the curtains and this great flash of forked lightning illuminates the whole room. I jump back startled (New Zealand doesn't get a lot of lightning) and go "whoa". Natasha looks like she's got bright spots in front of her eyes, stunned. Then the thunder. OK she's been through many a storm but she's looking a touch scared now..... I give her a reassuring pat.
It clams a bit, the rain settles. Then another front comes through even worse. Both of us are going to bed by this time and I have to use a phone book to stop the front screen door rattling in the wind (at least phonebooks are good for something these days). Another front comes through. I'm not concerned about the house as it's been here 100 years, but these latest winds are howling now through the power lines outside, making that really spooky storm sounding wind thing. The road outside looks like it's under a permanent centimetre of water just from the amount of rain falling on it. The drains are overflowing onto the grass verge..... OK, I myself have been through many a storm in Sydney, but now I'm getting a bit worried......
Thankfully it eventually faded back to simple cold winds and rain. Not after a lot of damage around Sydney though.
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