Archive for January, 2010


  • Thunderstorms! - January 29th, 2010 , Written By: Chris Noble | 4 Comments

    • The last week in January 2010 will be remembered by many over the central North Island for the frequent thunderstorms that developed in the afternoon, often lasting well into the evening. Conditions changed little during the week with a slack pressure gradient over the North Island allowing afternoon sea breezes to combine with abundant low [...]

  • It must have been an insightful man… - January 26th, 2010 , Written By: Ross Marsden | 3 Comments

    • It must have been an insightful man who decided to build the new meteorological office on the end of the ridge above the Botanical Gardens. If you are lucky you can observe some beautiful meteorology from the roof of the building. The Director at the time, Dr John Gabities, probably had a big say in [...]

  • Summer so far - January 22nd, 2010 , Written By: Chris Webster | No Comments

    • One way of defining summer in NZ is calling it the three months December, January and February. By that definition we have just passed the half-way mark. What has the weather been like at your place so far this summer?   In a recent blog post by Peter Kreft, he reflected on the 2009 winter. I [...]

  • Feels Like - January 13th, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | 3 Comments

    • Feels like temperature, to the nearest degree, gives an idea of how cool or warm the air feels to us.

  • Big Day Out – A Day of Two Parts - January 13th, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | 1 Comment

    • MetService hopes that all involved in this year’s bash have fun, and as I look at the MetService data for the day I can see that the weather is likely to turn into two parts.

  • Contrail over Tauranga - January 5th, 2010 , Written By: Ross Marsden | 6 Comments

    • I received an inquiry by way of the Editor of the Bay of Plenty Times from Laurie Sanders of Tauranga with some photographs of an interesting cloud formation. Laurie saw it as he was going to work southeast-bound on 15th Avenue at the Cameron Street traffic lights at 7:40 am on Wednesday, 9 December 2009. [...]

   

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