Peter Kreft

Peter has a BSc(Hons) in mathematics and has been a meteorologist for 30
years. He’s spent about half of this time working in the National
Forecast Centre and the other half recruiting and training MetService’s
meteorologists. Peter used to get his practical weather experience by
falling off his surfboard, which he was far better at than standing on
it. These days, he estimates the local wind strength when cycling to and
from work. Peter’s particular area of expertise is broad-scale weather
systems and he has been an honorary teaching associate at Victoria
University of Wellington. He is the Chief Forecaster.