On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 09:18:04 -0700, Bruce Hoult wrote:

On Sep 20, 11:38Â*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:
On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 22:57:15 -0700, Bruce Hoult wrote:

Incidentally, someone landed their Cirrus on a suburban street here
on Sunday morning. They reportedly deliberately used the poles on
either side of a pedestrian crossing to slow down. I believe my
instructors mentioned tree trunks in this context, but whatever...

My cousin, who lives in Waikanae, said it was a turbulent, gusty day
but none of the reports mention the weather. How would you rate it?

The entire country was covered by a massive storm centered to the south
of the South Island with strong westerly conditions covering the whole
2000 km (north/south) of the country. If you could get high somewhere it
could well have been a record-setting day. Some supermarkets and a
stadium in Southland collapsed due to the weight of snow on them. Around
Auckland and Hamilton trees were coming down and houses losing roofs and
a lot of people lost electricity. In the middle of the North Island
there were a lot of slips on to roads.

It wasn't so bad around Wellington and was, fundamentally, a fine day,
but windy. I wasn't at the club but I'd expect that it was probably
gusting over 30 knots.

Those are mostly fairly benign conditions at Paraparaumu with smooth air
coming off the ocean and on to the hills 3 or 4 km inland, and the sea
cliffs further south. The only real problem is Kapiti Island, 5 km
offshore, which produces wave which can either reinforce the ridge lift
or else dump on to it, and can also generate a fair bit of rotor in
semi-random places.

Thanks for the expansion.

BTW, I see that the club sold off Golf Zulu. When did that happen?


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