Posts Tagged historical
- The Big Chill - August 14th, 2011 , Written By: Peter Kreft | 8 Comments
- The Thunderstorm in History - August 27th, 2009 , Written By: Erick Brenstrum | No Comments
- The Year of Slipping Dangerously - May 5th, 2009 , Written By: Erick Brenstrum | No Comments
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. [...]
One of the pleasures of reading history is coming across stories about the weather. Thunderstorms often figure in these. One of the most dramatic examples was recorded in the sixth century AD, by Gregory, Bishop of Tours, in his Historia Francorum (The History of the Franks). In AD 536 there were three rulers of Frankish [...]
With rainfall well above normal this winter, it has been a great time for slips: big ones cutting major road and rail links in Kaikoura and other places and thousands of little ones making small mischief on roads and properties all over the country. Houses in Auckland have been threatened for days by slow moving slips, while, in Milford Sound, tourists watching waterfalls had to sprint to safety when the sound of the rain took on a deeper rumble and tonnes of rocks and trees crashed down on the spot where they had been standing.