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A Wet Prelude in the Southwest for Long Weekend
Wednesday, 30 May 2007, 2:14 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a heavy rain warning for Fiordland and southern Westland. A cold front is likely to deliver between 200 and 300mm of rain in the ranges between Haast and Franz Josef on Thursday and Friday. More >>
Finally Some Rain For The North Island
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 3:11 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a heavy rain warning for Fiordland, parts of Westland and Nelson, and also for the Tararua ranges and an area extending from Mount Taranaki to the central North Island Plateau. Only minor amounts of rain are expected ... More >>
Dry Anticyclones Good For Harvest But Carry A Cost
Thursday, 26 April 2007, 2:04 pm | MetService
The recent run of dry weather has been good for harvesting but some farmers are beginning to count the cost as they consider the loss of autumn pasture. More >>
Mixed Weather For The Anzac Dawn
Monday, 23 April 2007, 1:48 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting a mixture of conditions for this year's ANZAC dawn ceremonies around New Zealand. More >>
Collaboration Between NIWA And Metservice
Thursday, 12 April 2007, 4:34 pm | MetService
In a joint statement MetService Chief Executive Mr Paul Reid and NIWA's Acting Chief Executive Dr Bryce Cooper say: "The relationship issues reported in the media are not those of the current people involved. Both organisations are continuing to work ... More >>
Wintry Southwesterly Coming
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 2:36 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued severe weather warnings for wind and rain with a series of cold fronts that are forecast to move onto southern parts of the South Island by Wednesday. Following these fronts a bitterly cold southwesterly is forecast ... More >>
Climate change challenge for small Pacific islands
Tuesday, 10 April 2007, 11:05 am | MetService
Small islands, including those in the South Pacific, are already experiencing the effects of climate change, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). More >>
More Rain To Come
Thursday, 29 March 2007, 1:32 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have updated the heavy rain warning for Northland, Auckland and Coromandel, the Bay of Plenty, north Gisborne and for northwest Nelson, and maintain a weather watch on the Mount Taranaki area. More >>
Issued at 01:01pm 22-Mar-2007
Thursday, 22 March 2007, 1:58 pm | MetService
Meteorologists around the world celebrate 23 March as World Meteorological Day. This marks the anniversary date of the formation of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as part of the United Nations in 1950. More >>
Smashing Swells Predicted
Tuesday, 13 March 2007, 2:46 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a weather warning for severe northwest gales on Wednesday over the southern North Island. Marine meteorologists are also forecasting the arrival of large ocean swells on the west coast of the North Island on Wednesday. More >>
Windiest Week of Year So Far
Monday, 12 March 2007, 1:51 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain in Westland and Fiordland today and spreading into Bay of Plenty and the ranges of Gisborne tonight. This marks the beginning of what may well be the windiest week for the country so ... More >>
Thirsty February
Tuesday, 27 February 2007, 2:41 pm | MetService
MetService's rain gauges have been recording long dry periods in many parts of the country over the past few weeks. Whangaparaoa Peninsula is at the top of the list with no rain at all since 8am on the 7th February. That's 484 rain-free hours to ... More >>
Summer is on a High
Monday, 12 February 2007, 3:37 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting more warm dry weather for the rest of this week and the start of next week. "A large area of high pressure has stalled in the Tasman Sea," commented MetService Weather Ambassador, Bob McDavitt. More >>
UK And NZ Boost Weather and Climate Monitoring
Wednesday, 7 February 2007, 4:29 pm | MetService
The British High Commission, MetService NZ and the UK Met Office today announced the launch of the Rescue-Pac project aimed at rescuing the deteriorating state of weather and climate observational equipment in the Pacific. More >>
Wet For Waitangi
Monday, 5 February 2007, 2:42 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a Severe Weather Watch for heavy rain in Northland and Coromandel on Waitangi Day. More >>
Jumpy January Weather
Thursday, 1 February 2007, 4:49 pm | MetService
"We've not had our normal share of summer anticyclones", commented MetService Weather Ambassador Bob McDavitt. "The weather has been jumping around bringing a mix of sunshine and rain with no great extremes." More >>
Tricky Wind Change Auckland Anniversary Regatta
Friday, 26 January 2007, 1:21 pm | MetService
Tricky Wind Change For Auckland Anniversary Regatta MetService meteorologists are forecasting that a frontal system may produce tricky conditions for the Auckland anniversary day regatta on Monday. More >>
Metservice: A Haymaking High
Thursday, 18 January 2007, 11:35 am | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting that the anticyclone that is draped across New Zealand will bring mainly fine dry weather to the country for the start of the coming weekend. More >>
Subtropical Change Is On Its Way
Monday, 8 January 2007, 1:52 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting this week to be the warmest week of summer so far, with humidity also increasing as a low-pressure system from the subtropics moves southwards into the Tasman Sea. Rain is likely to mostly affect Northland to ... More >>
Weather Highlights of 2006
Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 11:02 am | MetService
It was the coldest June since 1972, and that was mainly due to the "snowball storm" that hit on 11-12 June. We had a southerly autumn, an early and slippery winter, a windy spring and then a cool start to summer. This article gives some notes from ... More >>
