2018 NH Summer/SH Winter Photo Thread

I was hoping you'd start uploading some photos, Joe. Good stuff.

From last summer, I didn't upload them at the time because they're so gloomy. But I guess they're worth showing for the landscape and some cool convection.

Started full overcast.



The guy in the green jacket, with his back to the camera. Is Mark Webster, a former darts world champion.



Eventually the weather began to improve. Cloud movements against the mountains are neat.



In the early evening another system moved over, all of these following photos were taken within a 5 minute time frame.


The next morning (I've uploaded some of these in an older thread).

Personally, I prefer the look of the sunny ones, although my camera screwed up the lighting on most so they don't look as good as they did in person. But the cloudy ones are far more interesting from a weather perspective. I couldn't help but notice how quickly weather systems appeared to sweep over the area. The tides also move in and out very quickly.

Good, because it gets a lot of it

Quite well tree'd for a "supolar" area

Almost the entire estuary is forested, covered in flowers and deciduous trees, it can even support various palms in exposed spots. Very rare for a UK landscape, and certainly not something I'd associate with the word subpolar. You're throwing it in with the likes of Umea

I almost prefer the ominous moments right before a thunderstorm over the storm itself. 

The estuary in Razza's pics looks like NZ.

I remember Owen saying that the typical vegetation of the SE looked like Spain

I recall Joe comparing that area to Dunedin, South Island. Perhaps less dramatic but definitely similar. North Island looks far too tropical in my view.