Scoop Images: Blizzard Breaks Blue Sky Appears

Tuesday, 6 August 2002, 1:23 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

Unfortunately our crossing of fingers didn't make the large low approaching the North Island dissappear and nobody is doing any skiing today.

As the low moves West the wind is heading closer to due east. With luck tomorrow will bring better weather.

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Alastair Thompson

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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