Snow in Wellington!

Snow has been forecast for Wellington today and the next two days. It's reasonably common to get snow on the surrounding hills, but forecasts were for snow as low as sea-level, and this is definitely a less common occurrence! Certainly in the [almost] 6 years I've been here, I've never actually seen it snowing, and yet late afternoon it started to snow at home.

Very little settled on the ground, but there was plenty of ice left on my deck and windows.

It's a bit dark now, but it looks like there might have been a bit of snow on the hills just a couple of kms away from here - also never seen in the past few years.

Hopefully there will be more pictures over the next few days if the forecasts are right. 

Two photos - one of the windowsill, and the second of some of the snowfall. This second photo is dark, as I used the flash to capture the snowflakes, but this didn't illuminate the background... I might have a play with some settings later on.

Remember to click on the photos for a larger version. Enjoy!