Waiology • Aug 22, 2011 •
By Daniel Collins With the sun shining and last week’s snow all but gone in Christchurch, it’s hard to imagine that the city almost ground to a halt. But not the hydrologists. While Ross was collecting snow in a saucepan, two other NIWA colleagues – Chris Appleby and Jeremy Rutherford – were out in the field doing more rigorous … Read More
Peter Griffin • Aug 22, 2011 •
Waiology • Aug 16, 2011 •
By Ross Woods Snow falling at Viaduct Harbour in Auckland on Monday 15 August 2011? Amazing, but true. We had some unusual snow in Christchurch a couple of weeks ago, but this time the wild white weather is spread very widely over New Zealand. Two weeks ago, lots of people got out there making some excellent measurements, which I … Read More
Peter Griffin • Aug 16, 2011 •
Ken Perrott • Aug 16, 2011 •
This lovely video, filmed & edited by Ro Tierney on August 15th 2011, says something about New Zealanders. Well, about Wellingtonians, at least. Where else do you find people venturing out into the snow in shirts? Mind you, as a born … Continue reading → … Read More
Peter Griffin • Aug 16, 2011 •
Satellite images of New Zealand snapped right now looks rather impressive as parts of the country are layered in snow. UPDATE: Latest satellite images of New Zealand from NOAA are available here and a nice NASA image showing the weather pattern responsible for the snowfall is available here (H/T Sciblogger Chris McDowall and Scilbogs reader … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Aug 15, 2011 •
The NIWA peeps are well curious about the nigh-on unprecedented amount of frozen precipitation (read: snow) falling all over NZ. snow! greta point, looking towards the harbour(ish) In Wellington, and as we speak: it’s snowing _in_ the CBD and also at sea level (Greta Point, for example). This is pretty darned unusual*. And the … Read More
Waiology • Jul 28, 2011 •
By Ross Woods On Monday morning I posted an album of photos of the snow near my house on my Facebook page, including shots like this one: My son, who likes to tease me about spending too much time working, then asked me ‘what are your predictions for gutter flow rates due to snow melt in the coming days … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Jun 26, 2011 •
The extraordinary sequence of extreme weather events during the last 18 months is probably the worst run of natural disasters since 1816, when a huge volcanic eruption at Mt Tambora cooled the earth enough to cause the famous “year without a summer“, according to a powerful blog post by Weather Underground founder Jeff Masters. He [...] … Read More
Gareth Renowden • Dec 31, 2010 •
This a guest post by the Climate BS Awards committee. Welcome to the 2010 Climate B.S.* of the Year Award. 2010 saw widespread and growing evidence of rapidly warming global climate and strengthening scientific understanding of how humans are contributing to climate change. Yet on the policy front, little happened to stem the growing emissions [...] … Read More