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.
Regional Cloudscapes
Clouds
Autumn Colours
This change-of-colour amongst the trees moves from south to north in tune with decreasing day-length. The intensity and duration of "autumn colour" depends on the weather as we slide slowly into the darker months.
The Air We Breathe
March 23 is WORLD METEOROLOGICAL DAY.
