Winter's here... but where's the snow?

We got up this morning to discover that the promised storm was indeed on it's way in. There were waterspouts forming in the lake and it was getting progressively darker down towards Glenorchy. Less than an hour later, we looked out to see that half the lake had been swallowed up by the grey murkiness. In a week's time last year, Greg was hiking up Ben Lomond with our friend Max in a snow storm and in 2 weeks time we were snowboarding on Coronet Peak. The hills are VERY bare at the moment so it better hurry up and get cold soon. It's currently 14 degrees outside (at 7pm) which is way too warm for this time of year. It's also raining heavily and we've even had thunder and lightning.

And in contrast to the revolting weather today, here's a photo taken in Wanaka last week when we were on our way to hear Andrea's friend's band play. This shot is looking north-west from the main Wanaka waterfront (towards Rob Roy Glacier and in the general direction of Treble Cone).