The New Zealand Met Service are advising people to wear at least 4 layers of clothing tonight to protect themselves from the storms facing Wellington with windchill factors that make an 8 degrees temperature feel more like 2 degrees. I know but I can’t help it,... I’ve been pondering whether like a recession you need two or more successive chill events to formally classify that winter is here. I know it snowed at the weekend but was so fleeting it hardly counts. Having said that it’s been definitely chillier this... OK, so where were we? Ah yes, it was snowing. The neighbours came to celebrate. The All Blacks beat South Africa in the blizzards of Wellington and we went to bed looking forward to a snowball war with Doug and Shilo this morning. So here’s the overnight... For the last 24 hours there have been severe weather warnings for all of New Zealand. I was beginning to think that the kiwis were being overly dramatic – the biggest storm for a while predicted. The sun’s been shining most of the day so I was beginning... Wellington weather on Sunday cancelled trains, plants and automobiles. Oh and the Cook Strait Ferries too! The strongest recorded wind gust was 148kmh on Mount Kaukau (the hill behind where we used to live in Khandallah. Boy are we glad we moved! 65mm of rain fell... 