These roses had already been battered in the wind on Monday and Tuesday, so I brought them inside to save them from predicted high wind on Thursday. The little buds had been snapped right off and were lying forlornly on the path.
As it happened (or didn’t happen) the wind was almost a non-event. According to an article in this morning’s Press, a website which visualises weather data ‘showed a wall of high winds approaching the city in the morning, before splitting into two parts on either side of Christchurch by early afternoon’. There was much stronger wind on Tuesday when a large branch of my lilac broke and fell into the neighbour’s driveway.
I listened to the radio for most of the day, hearing horrific reports of wind damage across the country. Apparently, higher than usual temperatures in Antarctica are causing this weather pattern to develop. Climate change in action.
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