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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 The February pattern that fostered the deepening of lows over New Zealand has been replaced by one that allows anticyclones to linger ...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 >>
Storm Warning Remains But Worst Waether Has Passed
Monday, 16 February 2004, 9:18 am | MetService
The deep low off the Wairarapa Coast that brought stormy conditions over the lower North Island is forecast to move away to the southeast from late morning,with the rain and severe southerly gales easing. However, another 20 to 30mm of rain is still ... More >>
Threats of Wind and Rain
Monday, 9 February 2004, 1:45 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued weather warnings for heavy rain and severe northwest gales to affect parts of the country tonight and during Tuesday. More >>
The Return Of The Sun For Waitangi Day
Wednesday, 4 February 2004, 12:01 am | MetService
Waitangi treaty grounds have had been soaked twice in the past week and are being soaked again today. MetService meteorologists are forecasting a brisk southwest wind to sweep across the area on Thursday and cool things down and dry out the paddocks. ... More >>
Intense Downpours Cause Problems
Monday, 2 February 2004, 2:51 pm | MetService
A major band of rain moving across the North Island today caused traffic problems in Auckland and Wellington. More >>
Facial Eczema Risk Potential Forecast
Tuesday, 20 January 2004, 3:58 pm | MetService
On the 1st of January 2004 MetService launched a facial eczema risk potential forecast service in time for this years season. More >>
