MetService Blog

What a week it has been weatherwise. 

MetService issues severe weather warnings to New Zealanders whenever widespread heavy rain, heavy snow or damaging winds are expected.

When there is an ash cloud, you have to take extra precautions

WMO TURNS SIXTY

Written by Bob McDavitt, Meteorologist

February 2010.

MetService is forecasting that the anticyclone moving slowly over New Zealand over the next few days is likely to bring the hottest days of  summer ( so far) along for the NZI Sevens in Wellington.

Sunny At the Sevens (this image taken in 2008)

The last week in January 2010 will be remembered by many over the central North Island for the frequent thunderstorms that developed in the afternoon, often lasting well into the evening. Conditions changed little during the week with a slack pressure gradient over the North Island allowing afternoon sea breezes to combine with abundant low level moisture, triggering heavy showers and thunderstorms inland. Many of these storms were slow moving, prompting a number of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings as radar detected torrential rain and hail in some cells.

Written by Ross Marsden, Meteorologist

One way of defining summer in NZ is calling it the three months December, January and February. By that definition we have just passed the half-way mark. What has the weather been like at your place so far this summer?  

Feels like temperature, to the nearest degree, gives an idea of how cool or warm the air feels to us.