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Never here. Wettest months are always between May and September. I suppose if you leave out June, the driest month can be any month, but it is extremely rare for it to be a summer month. February is typical, and so is October.
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Originally Posted by irlinit
Ahh OK. Still quite warm highs seeing as they are pretty similar in NZ at that latitude in summer at sea level
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Originally Posted by BBQPitmaster88
F. Too cold, ridiculously wet and fatally cloudy. Subarctic misery at its finest.
Not nearly as cloudy as those numbers suggest. Proximity to mountain means those hours translate to about 52% of recordable - on a couple of occasions it has had months with about 80% of the possible.
I'll warrant it spends far less time raining than many parts of your Canadian west coast. It gets large dumps (record abt 600mm in a day) in spectacular storms - and has significant dry spells. All-night lightning displays can occur.
Spent a bit of time there ( a spring and an autumn at Whale Stream) C- for me. Too cold in winter and the wind can really suck. Another big negative, is that it's at a high enough altitude, to make summer sunshine, very unpleasant at times. Other than that, weather seems pretty reasonable a lot of the time
As RWood said, it's sunnier than figures indicate, and rainfall tends to be very intense. The immediate area has much more of a semi arid feel than one would expect, given the rainfall stats. Storms and weather can be mindblowing.
Spent a bit of time there ( a spring and an autumn at Whale Stream) C- for me. Too cold in winter and the wind can really suck. Another big negative, is that it's at a high enough altitude, to make summer sunshine, very unpleasant at times. Other than that, weather seems pretty reasonable a lot of the time
As RWood said, it's sunnier than figures indicate, and rainfall tends to be very intense. The immediate area has much more of a semi arid feel than one would expect, given the rainfall stats. Storms and weather can be mindblowing.
I like that higher sun feeling ... Whale Stream hut according to references I find is 1189m above sea level, which would make it much colder and more exposed than the village (823m) I think.
I like that higher sun feeling ... Whale Stream hut according to references I find is 1189m above sea level, which would make it much colder and more exposed than the village (823m) I think.
Whale Stream was the designated work area and base, but we worked right along the range to as far as the village.
The hut at 1200m certainly was very cold during the spring, with lying snow still there in mid november. The autumn stint had a lot of those fantastic days that area can get. Certainly agree about the storms. I haven't been anywhere, where incoming bad weather looks so spectacular.
Here's a photo showing area from the Stream up to the village, taken late last summer. Tried to capture the dust clouds that can be frequent, but failed miserably with my cheap camera.
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