Posts Tagged cold
- Story behind polar outbreak of August 2011 - August 23rd, 2011 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- The Big Chill - August 14th, 2011 , Written By: Peter Kreft | 8 Comments
- Monday 25th July: 2011′s coldest day so far - July 27th, 2011 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | 3 Comments
- Cold Windy Friday - November 4th, 2010 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
- Wave three - September 20th, 2010 , Written By: Peter Kreft | No Comments
- Canterbury Snow, 10 May 2009 - May 13th, 2009 , Written By: Chris Noble | No Comments
August 2011′s polar outbreak was a major weather event that drew media interest from around the world. This event was notable in recent history, in terms of the coldness of the air and extent of its spread across New Zealand. During the week of the ‘big chill’, MetService’s Chief Forecaster kept up an in-depth explanation of the polar outbreak as [...]
2:30pm Sunday 14 August 2011 It’s early days in a weather event which is likely to be memorable for its coldness. Below is a satellite image for midday Sunday. The wind flow over New Zealand is generally from the southwest; the coldest showery air has made its way onto Fiordland, Southland, Otago and south Canterbury. [...]
Polar Blast brough New Zealand its coldest days in 2011
Check the weather forecast before heading out to that fireworks show.
New Zealand has been in a strong west to southwest flow for a few days now. This weather regime looks as though it will continue for the next few days. There are reasons why the weather gets into regimes like this. It has to do with what meteorologists call the “long waves”. The map below is [...]
With clear skies over most of Canterbury on Monday, we got a good look at the fresh snow that fell on Sunday (10th May). Here’s the view late Monday morning (around 10:30am) from NASA’s Earth Observing System Terra Satellite, Based on the coverage in that image and reports from snow observers, the bulk of the [...]