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More Rain Coming To The NorthEast
Thursday, 19 May 2005, 2:15 pm | MetService
During the last few days of torrential downpours, the MetService rain gauge at Tauranga airport measured 309 mm in the 24-hours ending 4pm Wednesday and a peak intensity of 58mm/hr at 10am on Wednesday. There is now a break in the clouds, but MetService ... More >>
BBC Launches New Weather Format Using NZ Tech
Monday, 16 May 2005, 12:17 am | MetService
Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd (MetService) today announced that its television weather graphics system, Weatherscape XT is being launched by the BBC. More >>
Welcome Rain For The North
Friday, 13 May 2005, 1:57 pm | MetService
Northland and Coromandel residents are likely to see more rain in the next few days than they have seen in the past few months. MetService meteorologists are now forecasting that a low-pressure system developing in the Tasman Sea will bring rain to northern ... More >>
MetService announces five-day marine forecasts
Thursday, 28 April 2005, 1:21 pm | MetService
From next Monday the MetService marine forecasts will have their range extended to cover a five-day period. This will help mariners plan safer trips. More >>
Weather Clearing for ANZAC Day
Thursday, 21 April 2005, 2:50 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting a cold showery weekend for much of the country, but the showers should clear for ANZAC day, even though they may linger through the ANZAC dawn between Wellington and Napier. More >>
Surf is up on Hawke's Bay Coast - again
Monday, 11 April 2005, 3:48 pm | MetService
A low-pressure area is forecast to deepen off the Hawke's Bay Coast on Tuesday in much the same position as the low that brought damaging waves to Haumoana and Waimarama around 17 March. More >>
Damaging Tornado hits Westland
Tuesday, 5 April 2005, 12:25 am | MetService
MetService advice of the possibility of tornadoes over the Westland and Fiordland coasts was successfully borne out on Monday afternoon. A tornado swirled into the Westland township of Runanga, about 10km north of Greymouth, ripping off two roofs ... More >>
Squally Thunderstorms
Tuesday, 29 March 2005, 1:28 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting that a low-pressure system deepening in the Tasman Sea may bring squally thunderstorms to northern parts of the North Island during Tuesday night. This low is expected to remain in the Tasman Sea, but its front ... More >>
A Wet Start to Easter
Wednesday, 23 March 2005, 1:16 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are watching the approach of a low-pressure system that has already given two solid days of rain to Sydney. This low is expected to cross the South Island on Thursday night and Friday morning, bringing some parts of New ... More >>
World Meteorological Day 2005
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 1:06 pm | MetService
March 23rd is set aside each year by meteorologists as World Meteorological Day. This celebrates the coming into force of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as an agency of the United Nations on 23 March 1950. This year's theme is "Weather, ... More >>
A Change In The Weather For Easter
Monday, 21 March 2005, 2:06 pm | MetService
Meteorologists at MetService are forecasting that a change to more unsettled weather is likely to arrive just before Easter. The weather pattern for the past four weeks has been dominated by high-pressure systems that have helped to keep the rain away ... More >>
Will we ever be able to forecast tornadoes?
Tuesday, 15 March 2005, 9:42 am | MetService
Will we ever be able to forecast tornadoes such as the one that hit Greymouth last week? "Not in any great detail," says MetService Weather Ambassador, Bob McDavitt, "but we are working towards being able to identify the regions where ... More >>
A Sunny Week Says MetService
Monday, 21 February 2005, 3:05 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting an extended period of dry sunny weather for most of the country this week. The only exceptions are a front brushing past the southwest of the South Island on Wednesday and Thursday and isolated showers ... More >>
New Weather Station in Bay of Islands
Wednesday, 16 February 2005, 2:09 pm | MetService
A new weather station has been installed at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands. The station has been made possible thanks to the combined efforts of Destination Northland, tourism operators and local business associations. More >>
MetService forecast: severe thunderstorms
Thursday, 3 February 2005, 12:45 am | MetService
MetService Severe Weather Team are forecasting a high risk of severe thunderstorms this afternoon over Waitomo, west Waikato, Taihape, Taranaki, Wanganui, Manawatu, and the Tararua and Ruahine ranges. Downpours of rain in the order of 25 to 40 millimetres ... More >>
Northwest winds to rattle the south
Wednesday, 19 January 2005, 1:41 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting northwest winds to affect southern New Zealand from now until the weekend. A special weather watch has been issued for Southland and Fiordland. More >>
A hay-maker of a High
Monday, 10 January 2005, 6:02 pm | MetService
Don't give up on summer just yet. MetService meteorologists are forecasting an extended period of dry weather for much of the country with an anticyclone crossing central New Zealand this week. More >>
Southerlies Relaxing For Christmas
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 1:31 pm | MetService
Cold southerlies arriving on Friday should relax briefly on Christmas Day, say MetService meteorologists. A sunny break is being forecast for many places. Day-time highs should reach the high teens for coastal places from Wellington southwards and around 20 ... More >>
Pattern Change Possible For Christmas Weather
Friday, 17 December 2004, 1:37 pm | MetService
MetService weather forecasts for this weekend are going for cold conditions with strong southwest winds over the whole country. Hail is likely in many places and snow is forecast above about 700 metres for the south and east of the South Island. ... More >>
Grass Pollen in abundance
Thursday, 2 December 2004, 9:41 am | MetService
If you're suffering itchy eyes, runny noses and sneezing a lot, you're in good company, as pollen directly affects about 20% of the population through allergy (hayfever) and/or asthma. More >>
