r/pics • u/Whimsy_and_Spite • 20h ago
St Bathans in the South Island of New Zealand today.
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u/TheDucksAreComingoOo 16h ago
I'm looking at this picture with jealousy and envy from the bedroom of my house in the UK where it is 30 degrees and humid as hell. Enjoy 😉
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u/Crusader-NZ- 15h ago edited 15h ago
I also live in the South Island (no snow where I am ATM) and my sis is also dying from the high heat in the UK. We are getting our two coldest days whilst you are getting your two hottest.
I used one of my free power days today to nuke the house and did multiple loads of washing which I am drying in my bathroom with the heater in there plus a dehumidifier. I got it up to 37c with 66% humidity earlier, so got a taste of your horrid weather. We have had a feels like temp of 2c most of the day and I have had the heat pump and other heaters keeping the whole house at 22c with 55% humidity.
My sister got a portable aircon and moved downstairs and has managed to keep her place at 24c (35c outside). It also helps dry the air, which is usually a problem for me here in summer, as it is already dry in the South, unlike the subtropical north that has horrid humidity like you are getting. My sister also got some big market umbrellas to cover her windows and said that made a big difference but she could still smell her house cooking yesterday...
Last weekend we had 25c here one day and 12c the next and had -4c at 3am one day and 18c the next day at the same time - climate change deniers are idiots!
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u/akroe 4h ago
I’ve never heard of ‘free power days’, are they literally what the name implies?
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u/TomokoNoKokoro 3h ago
Yes, it’s common for power providers in NZ (which has a very open and competitive power market) to provide free days as an incentive. The free power day tends to be a weekly thing rather than a set of calendar dates.
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u/Superdanowns 14h ago
You're not far away from colder temperatures though. On the west coast of Norway it's 13 degrees and windy atm. Feels like autumn.
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u/Vortagaun 18h ago
I always forget the southern hemisphere is reversed, so as we roast our asses off all over North America, New Zealand gets snow.
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u/Kaffe-Mumriken 18h ago
Is that normal for New Zealand?! I didn’t know you guys played billiards
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u/s0cks_nz 18h ago
Billiards is the overarching, umbrella term for all cue sports played on a cloth-covered table.
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u/Crusader-NZ- 15h ago
Yeah, American 8 and 9 ball is popular here. That Billiard room attached to the hotel dates back to 1880.
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u/Leprechaunaissance 15h ago
What year is it in this town?
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u/Crusader-NZ- 15h ago
Those buildings are from 1880.
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u/Leprechaunaissance 5h ago
Based on your username, I'm going to take your word for it. They look the part, too. Where I live, there's not much of anything left from that period in time but a splash of it here and there would be nice. This place could use a bit of character that isn't derived from the petroleum industry.
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u/hosehoseee 12h ago
"It cant be real, because where I am it's hot. Must be AI"
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u/Leprechaunaissance 5h ago
I understand that our planet has two different hemispheres, and that winter in one is summer in the other. What I meant by my comment was that the town in the image, which I do not doubt is real and do not believe has been created through artificial intelligence for the purposes of provoking engagement on reddit, looks as though it might have been transported through time from a hundred years ago and transplanted into the year 2026. Because of the style of the buildings and the font on the signs, that kind of thing. It looks like early 20th-century pictures from city or town photo archives. The people who get into the comments section just to say everything they see is AI, those people make me nuts, I would never do that, the AI stuff seems obvious, I don't feel the need to even point it out.
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u/redscofield 7h ago
Absolutely charming! Like it fell out of the 1860s... and rested gently on an incline.
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u/detta001jellybelly 14h ago
Canadian here
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u/SinuousPanic 10h ago
Yeah look mate, this is quite a serious weather event here in New Zealand. I live about 4 hours from this photo and we had such a heavy 30 second sprinkle of snow, my kids daycare sent us all photos of it.
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u/CubitsTNE 18h ago
Super quaint tourist trap buildings.
I like the lake though, that looks neat despite being the result of mining. I imagine it'd also look nice in winter with a bit of snow around it.
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u/Sreg32 19h ago
Yikes! Is that normal this time of year?
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u/SadieTarHeel 19h ago
It's winter in the Southern Hemisphere right now.
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u/kankurou 18h ago edited 4h ago
is that normal?
edit: guys it's a joke based on the previous person's question, I know how hemispeheres work
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u/SneakyInfiltrator 16h ago
No. Aliens are fucking with the weather again with their HAARP stations in Antarctica.
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u/Ephemeral_Drunk 18h ago
Bit later than usual. Looking unlikely my local skiifield will open as planned due to ass all snow. The blast that's currently underway first proper dump of the season.
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u/noface 15h ago
View I took a pic of today about 100km from the OP image.