Polls

Over the past month WeatherWatch.co.nz has been reporting that highs across New Zealand have frequently been reaching the 18 to 21 degree mark, quite out of character for this time of the year.

A number of news stories have also mentioned the spring-like conditions that have spread across a number of regions - so we're keen to hear your thoughts.

Where you are, do you feel like the weather over the past 4 weeks has been more winter-like or spring-like?

Vote below!

We're at the halfway mark of winter so we're interested to hear how you're finding conditions this year?

Many of those in western and northern New Zealand are reporting a great winter with plenty of sun and few wet days.  Others in the east have had a lot of cold wind and rain while those in the south have seen severe frosts and bitterly cold weather - but stunning sunny days.

So, if you had to mark winter on a scale of 1 to 5, where would you rate it?  5 being fantastic, 1 being horrible.

Vote below!

TOP DEBATE

The government last week started the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The ETS has been quite controversial and we're keen to see what you think of it - has the Govenment made the right decision?  Do you support the ETS?

Vote in our poll below - and post a comment with your opinion.

WeatherWatch.co.nz readers have overwhelmingly announced that this winter is a fairly good one in a recent WeatherWatch Poll.

Visitors were asked how they rated the winter so far for 2010

RESULTS...

The weather this winter has been wetter and warmer so far with few frosts and plenty of rain.

However this week a large high from Australia changed that taking frosts right up to the Far North.

We want to know, compared to other winters, how are you enjoying this one?

Recently it's been much cooler across the country with highs between 11 and 16 degrees across the country and lows in the single digits pretty much everywhere.

But while some say it's cold, others say it's not that cold.

We asked you a while ago if you had started swtiching on your heating for the winter season... so we're asking you again.  Vote in our poll below!

Eyewitness reports of this weekend's thunderstorms range from "loud thunder and lightning directly above us" to "non-stop lightning" to "hardly anything".

Rate this weekend's thunderstorms in our poll below.

The nights are certainly getting colder across the country - so we want to know if you've started heating your home at night?

Whether it's lighting the fire or switching on the heater.

Vote in our poll below and feel free to post a comment!

This weekend our Easter Holiday will be made an hour longer thanks to daylight savings ending in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A simple saying to remember which way the clock goes:  Spring forward an hour in spring, fall back an hour in Fall.   So clocks go back one hour on Easter Sunday.

In less than a week Summer officially ends.  With the change of season WeatherWatch decided to ask readers which was their preferred season. We expected a landslide for summer...but that wasn't the case.

Also - tonight is another humid night in the north.  At 10pm Auckland's feels like temperature remained in the late 20s with humidity around 90%.  It's a similar story in New Plymouth, Tauranga and Whangarei.

Around a week ago we asked readers to tell us if they liked the high humidity or not.

See the results of both these polls below...