Archive for November, 2009
- New look MetService website goes live - November 30th, 2009 , Written By: nicola | 15 Comments
- Ice - November 24th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | 3 Comments
- MetService launches preview of new website - November 23rd, 2009 , Written By: nicola | 15 Comments
- How the Sun moves across the sky - November 19th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | 6 Comments
- Saturation - November 10th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | No Comments
- November gale - November 4th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Webster | No Comments
The new design of metservice.com has gone live today. We hope that you enjoy the new look and functionality. Any feedback about the website can be sent to enquiries@metservice.com For further information about the new website, please refer to previous blog posts: http://blog.metservice.com/2009/11/a-fresh-new-look-for-summer-metservice-com-website-redesign/ http://blog.metservice.com/2009/11/metservice-launches-preview-of-new-website/
You may have heard in the news recently about a large group of icebergs in the ocean south of New Zealand. There is an impressive photo of one of the icebergs here. The story got me thinking again about the amazing properties of water, so I will continue the thread of a previous post by focusing on ice. Ice in the water Firstly, the icebergs. [...]
MetService has released the new version of metservice.com for preliminary viewing. You can interact with the new site to compare it with the current site, which is still live. View the beta website here: http://beta.metservice.com Although it is not in its final state, this preview gives you the opportunity to have a look around the [...]
As we approach summer in NZ, the Sun is getting higher in the sky and is increasingly warming the Earth and the air around us. In the early 1600s Galileo Galilei explained that the Earth goes around the Sun, but there’s no reason why we can’t discuss the apparent movement of the Sun across the sky, as you see [...]
As I indicated at the end of the recent post about surface tension, I’ve started a new thread about the amazing properties of water. This time I’ll write about saturation, what it is and what it isn’t. The reason I included the bit about “what it isn’t” is that a close friend once asked what saturation actually was - they thought that if the [...]
We’ve just had some very strong winds over NZ, so I’m writing this short post to give some background to it. First of all, check out these peak northwesterly wind speeds from the morning of Wednesday 4 November: mean wind (including gusts and lulls) strongest gust South West Cape (Stewart Island) 143 km/h 183 km/h Castlepoint [...]