2009!

[David]

All the best to everyone for the new year ahead, hope you all stay well and get the weather you want!
Have a great New Year's Day tomorrow (or party tonight!)

[Tornado Tim]

Ditto.... hope everyone has a great year
Let's hope the Weather will give out some more TS's.
I am sure people will regret drinking so much from tonight!

[jamie]

happy new year to all on this forum. Hope its a goodie for all. I know my year is going to be fantastic with my 21st and finishing my degree. Tomorrow is going to be hard with the forecast reading 35 thismorning (dont know what it is know) but its going to hurt my poor head.

[tgsnoopy]

Got to about 31°C today, cooled down to about 25°C now. It's going to be a great night.

I hope everyone has a great New Years! Stay safe everyone.

I'm still at Coogee in Sydney, heading off towards Circular Quay shortly.

They are going to have simulated thunderstorms as part of the midnight fireworks display here. A mere 5 tonnes of fireworks!

[Vertigo]

first post! happy new year everyone.

[spwill]

First sunrise of 2009 (just north of Auckland)

[Nev]

Happy New Year All!

Nice pic there spwill btw

[jamie]

Well if you want to see an amazing fireworks display i say go and watch the sydney new year ones. As tgsnoopy stated 5 tonnes and 5 millions dollars blown up over 10 minutes. What a display that was!
As for the thunderstorm fireworks, i never even thought of them as that. I suppose when i think about it now they were very much like lightening and very well done. At the time i just thought, so this is what being in a war zone would be like.

[tgsnoopy]

Happy New Year everyone.

Unfortunately I preferred the Brisbane River Festival's River Fire event as far as fireworks displays went. River fire went for half an hour not the 10 minutes of the NY's fireworks at Sydney.

Our biggest problem was my partner wanted to see the earlier kids display in Darling Harbour before heading to Circular Quay. By the time we got there, the venues were full to capacity and closed by the Police.

I was still lucky enough to acquire access to a venue with a suitable view for the event though (but not saying how or where).

The best thing of the whole night for me was the fantastic public transport put on for the night! Well done Sydney.

Next year? Maybe Brisbane.

The holidays aren't over and there are still plenty of challenging drivers out there, please keep yourselves save, have a great time and watch those other idiots on the roads

[Willoughby]

Happy new year all!! Was up til 8am this morning, though thankfully I was no where near as hungover as I was last NY's.

[RODALCO]

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Sunset 01-01-2009 from out Titirangi deck looking over the Waitakere Ranges

Happy New Year and hopefully some exiting weather fenomena in 2009

Raymond

[Lacertae]

First sunset for 2009 from a place roughly 50 kilometers north of Westport :

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[Lacertae]

And the last one for 2008 from the same place. I really enjoyed the cirrus that day !

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[David]

Excellent pictures there! Beautiful scenes!

[Lacertae]

And of course, a happy new year to all of you "weather-mates" ! Life wouldn't be so fun without you !