Jack and Katrina's Place

The winters in Wellington are not fierce, but the springs are not gentle. Somewhere out over the Southern Ocean the longer sunshine hours are warming the ocean and sending the low presure systems further north. Each weather system brings ahead of it a spell of north westerly gales and rain. The Maori  called these the kowhai rains as they arrived at the same time as the Kowhai trees burst into flower. It has been a good season for Kowhai in Wellington, this mild wet spring. Here are some I have snapped while running into work and home again.

 Which caused some morning commuter confusion, this is normaly a trickle.