Weather in Wellington, NZ - the beginning of autumn?

A lovely late summer’s (oops, I mean autumn's!) day

"A change of weather pattern"

"The end of the warm weather and the start of autumn"

"No humid sub'tropical wind"

That's what we were told by the weather man. 

And indeed we did get some ferocious wind.  

We even got enought rain to ill the river again and a tinge of green on the hills.

But instead of lasting days and days, and days it was all over almost as soon as it began.

Obviously, with some competing weather from the south things have become more unstable.

But you'l have a hard time persuading me that it is autumn as I swelter in my tee-shirt at 8 o'clock in the morning.

Here's the situation right now: