Archive for March, 2011
- The Eye of the Storm - March 28th, 2011 , Written By: Peter Kreft | No Comments
- World Met Day 2011 - March 22nd, 2011 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | 2 Comments
- Storm Surge - March 7th, 2011 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- NEW dust graphs for Christchurch city - March 4th, 2011 , Written By: Jacqui Bridges | No Comments
- FitzRoy: Inventor of the weather forecast - March 1st, 2011 , Written By: Erick Brenstrum | 4 Comments
Here’s a couple of close-ups of Tropical Cyclone Bune as it passed near Raoul Island overnight Monday. The centre of Bune has passed a few tens of kilometres to the east of Raoul. The pressure at Raoul “bottomed out” at 972.5 hPa at 11:00pm Monday; at this time, Bune’s central pressure was around 967 hPa. [...]
23rd March is World Meteorological Day. Each year meteorologists around the world celebrate a chosen theme together to commemorate the anniversary of the founding of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on this day in 1950. The theme this year is “Climate for You”. [Click on the diagram to link to the WMO ‘Climate for You’ [...]
Storm tide is the storm surge + the tide. King Tides occur soon after moon reaches its perigee within a day of a full or new moon phase.
Over the past couple of days we’ve been working on an easy-to-understand indicator of the risk of wind-driven dust clouds in and around Christchurch city. To our knowledge, no-one’s tried this before. These ‘dust graphs’ are now live on metservice.com so that the people of Christchurch, emergency services, lifelines and others have more information to [...]
This article was originally published in New Zealand Geographic, issue 99 September-October 2009 Robert FitzRoy is famous as captain of the Beagle on the voyage when Darwin made his discoveries, although many New Zealanders also know FitzRoy as Governor of New Zealand before George Grey. But to meteorologists, FitzRoy is famous as one of the [...]