Another day, another gloomy weather forecast.
We had a brief respite from the rain on Saturday and the Mount was full of people making the most of the sunshine before the rain returned, which it soon did.
It has been a very wet year. In the first eight months of the year, 1344mm of rain had been recorded in Tauranga, 155mm more than the average annual rainfall of 1189mm.
It's amazing how much bad weather affects the mood. Seasonal affective disorder, which is appropriately shortened to the acronym SAD, is a type of depression that hits people in the colder and darker months.
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