Oh! Oh! Antonio!

Yesterday was a very cold day in Palmerston North. Around 10:00am we had thunder and then a hail storm - not big stones but lots of them, and because it was so cold it stayed around for hours. Here is my car:

Here are the lower hills of the Tararua ranges, the view from my front door:

this is at the end of our valley (to the east) and this is looking south-east.

The hail was worse in places in town and was still lying around 2 hours later. Not a usual sight, but I guess that it is another sign of 'global warming'.