> > Also makes NZ an even cheaper holiday desitination at present. Come on
> > over now while it's still summer. They tell us to expect nice warm
> > weather in the North until mid April. Not for so long in the South.
> >
> > This used to be called an "indiam Summer". Nowadays some call it
> > climate change :-). I call it very pleasant.

> So that's where the heat is? I would love to come over. Here in Sweden we have
> had one of the coldest winter for the last 100 years and it seems to not be
> over yet. I wonder if that is also due to the climat change.

You can always be sure that Climate Changes :-).
It MAY be the coldest in 100 yeas, but 301 years ago there was a
winter that made your one now look warm.
1709 in Europe, so cold that many animals died in barns and in the
wild, surviving fowl had their combs drop off, trees split, crops
almost all died. Grapes gave no wine at all. Many people froze to
death in their beds. Interestingly, the years  that are recorded as
very cold  in some places don't necessarily match the years that the
Thames froze in London.

But, the heat is in Hong Kong :-) - and no doubt in many other
tropical places. In early February (just past mid winter) it was
typically as warm in HK as it was in NZ at the same time (just past
mid summer). I wore shirt sleeves even late at night. Locals tended to
add a layer of clothing. 2 hours flight and 1000 km North in Ningbo it
was bitterly cold, more so than in northern NZ in winter at any stage
BUT Ningbo is far closer to the equator than my city is. Ocean
currents have  amajor effect on temperatures.

UK translated into our hemisphere would lie wholly to deep south of my
country. It SHOULD be always frozen around the UK in winter, BUT the
gulf stream keeps it "warm" and ice free. So far :-). The biggest
thing we know about climate is that we know very little about climate!
(But, some people don't know we know that). I'm very much in favour of
us all knowing far more than we do now.



 Russell
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