Wild Weather

June means short days, long dark nights and this year plenty of thunder and lightning. According to a meteorologist on TV it has been an 'exceptional' period of bad weather rather than a new pattern of weather due to climate change. ParkRun was cancelled on Saturday because the river flooded the track and by the end of the weekend Otaihanga Domain was full of water and a couple of tornadoes had blown through Waikanae. Alison had a cracked window and a tree blew down. I got off lightly with a worsening leak in the porch roof. 

The forecast didn't look so bad a week ago. It quickly changed to warnings of heavy swells, gale force wind and severe thunder and lightning storms.

Water on the Waikanae River track. 

ParkRun

 After a six month hiatus due to Covid, storm damage, then Covid again, ParkRun finally restarted yesterday at Otaihanga Domain. At least it is still summer and not cold or dark rising at 7am on a Saturday and slogging my way down the Waikanae River path at 8am. It really was a slog and my time was slow. But I ran the whole way and completed my 44th ParkRun.