Posts Tagged weather
- 2011 – The Weather in Review - December 21st, 2011 , Written By: Daniel Corbett | 9 Comments
- Rugby Weather: French Storm 1961 - September 12th, 2011 , Written By: Erick Brenstrum | 2 Comments
- Waikato Stadium Weather - September 11th, 2009 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | 1 Comment
- Autumn Colours - May 3rd, 2009 , Written By: Bob McDavitt | No Comments
The temperature trend in New Zealand during the past year can be read from the graph below and tells a story. Last summer was significantly hotter than normal, and several tropical weather systems visited our northern parts in January. Autumn started normally enough in March and April. Then blocking led to the dominance of [...]
In August 1961 my Dad took me to see my first test match. All Blacks versus France at Wellington’s Athletic Park, although with hindsight it was more like New Zealand and France combined versus the weather. Not that wind and rain were a negative for my ten-year-old self. That seemed to be one of the [...]
After a week of sunny weather, it appears that rain will dampen Waikato Stadium before this weekend’s Tri Nation rugby game starts there at 7:35pm on Saturday. This clash between the Springboks and the All Blacks is the first Tri Nations game to be held at Waikato Stadium (capacity 25,800). If the All Blacks win [...]
By Bob McDavitt, MetService Weather Ambassador
Blogs are a great way to keep up-to-date. From today, several MetService staff will start posting about the weather. Every few days we intend to add something new, commenting on recent weather, or coming weather, or how weather is likely to affect important events, or stories relating to the weather or to places that our job takes us. These posts will generally offer you a chance to share your responses with us all as well, but some of our posts will be coming from shift forecasters who may not always be able to allow responses. . Most of our posts will be shorter than this first one.