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MetService - Brace for a Wet and Windy week
Monday, 3 May 2004, 8:58 am | MetService
Issued by MetService at 03:03pm 02-May-2004 Brace For A Wet and Windy Week More >>
Dry Spell weakening after the ANZAC dawn
Friday, 23 April 2004, 3:41 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting some welcome rain for the driest areas of the country early next week. More >>
More Hearty City Temperatures
Thursday, 22 April 2004, 1:55 pm | MetService
MetService engineers have installed new temperature-reading stations close to heart of both Napier and New Plymouth cities. Readings are being made available for presentation on TV in the evening, helping people compare the daily high temperatures around the ... More >>
Easter Weather: cold and changeable.
Wednesday, 7 April 2004, 1:44 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting more waves of wet and cold weather during Easter. From Thursday night to Good Friday morning a low is expected to cross the North Island accompanied by briefly heavy rain. By Easter Sunday another burst of ... More >>
A Taste of Winter
Monday, 5 April 2004, 1:28 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are mentioning the possibility of snow in the forecasts for Porters Pass from early Tuesday and for the Desert Road from Tuesday evening. Cold and showery conditions with thunderstorms and hail are forecast to cross the ... More >>
MetService forecasts an unseasonable frost
Wednesday, 24 March 2004, 1:05 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have added the word "frosty" to their forecasts for southern areas on Thursday morning. The overnight air temperature for Hanmer, Wanaka, and Queenstown is forecast to drop to zero, and in Alexandra it is forecast ... More >>
Hauraki Nowcasting Network Revamped
Tuesday, 23 March 2004, 12:34 am | MetService
Coastguard Northern Region Executive Director John Cowan announced today that an upgraded Nowcasting network is now operating in the Hauraki Gulf and along Auckland's west coast. More >>
Weather Climate and Water in the Information Age
Monday, 22 March 2004, 12:00 am | MetService
Tuesday is World Meteorological Day, a day set aside by meteorologists around the world to celebrate the anniversary of the founding of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) on 23 March 1950. This year's theme is "Weather, Climate and Water in ... More >>
World’s Largest Broadcaster Chooses MetService
Wednesday, 10 March 2004, 4:04 pm | MetService
News audiences around the globe are to get an injection of Kiwi weather graphics and animation ingenuity into all their weather news later this year. More >>
Anticyclones of Autumn
Monday, 8 March 2004, 2:34 pm | MetService
The prospects are great for another fine weekend. March is bringing with it a regime change in the weather pattern. The February pattern that fostered the deepening of lows over New Zealand has been replaced by one that allows anticyclones to linger ... More >>
Storms Expected To Bring Heavy Rain To Many Parts
Saturday, 28 February 2004, 1:17 am | MetService
A deep depression over the Tasman Sea is expected to move southeast and cross Fiordland and Otago late Saturday. The low and its associated front should bring a period of heavy rain to the north and west of both islands. Worst affected areas will be the ... More >>
More Wet-and-Windy Yo-Yo Weather
Thursday, 26 February 2004, 1:23 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a special weather advisory as they monitor two storms which are expected to bring further heavy rain and strong winds to New Zealand over the weekend. More >>
MetService Warn Of Another Front
Monday, 23 February 2004, 2:36 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued severe weather warnings for heavy rain for Taranaki and the central North Island high country tonight, and are keeping a severe weather watch for the Tararua ranges, Fiordland and the Westland ranges. More >>
Bumpy Old Summer Continues
Friday, 20 February 2004, 1:55 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for another front moving across New Zealand on Saturday. More >>
Heavy Rain And Gales Easing Overnight
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 9:24 pm | MetService
An active front is moving over the country producing a spell of heavy rain in many western areas from Westland to northwest Nelson and in the west of the North Island from Wellington to southern Waikato. More >>
A Burst Of Heavy Rain And Strong Winds Today
Thursday, 19 February 2004, 9:57 am | MetService
MetService forecasters are expecting a front moving over the country today to become more active, producing a spell of heavy rain in many western areas from Fiordland to northwest Nelson and in the the west of the North Island from Wellington to Taranaki. ... More >>
Severe Wind and Rain Warnings for Thursday
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 1:21 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued severe wind and heavy rain warnings for an active front moving across New Zealand on Thursday. More >>
MetService Issues Narrative of the Big Storm
Wednesday, 18 February 2004, 8:26 am | MetService
Flooding hit Wellington, Wairarapa, Manawatu and Rangitikei areas hard early this week. This narrative article from MetService Weather Ambassador Bob McDavitt gives a sequential account of the main events leading to flooding. More >>
Eyeing The Storm: 167 km/hr at Beacon Hill
Tuesday, 17 February 2004, 9:41 am | MetService
MetService Weather Ambassador Bob McDavitt described today's storm as extreme and one which delivered more than it promised. More >>
Data From The Extreme Storm
Monday, 16 February 2004, 2:44 pm | MetService
MetService Weather Ambassador Bob McDavitt described today's storm as extreme and one which delivered more than it promised. More >>
