Archives for August 2011
Tuesday’s national highs
Today’s highest temperature was 20 at Kawerau. Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 12 at Hokitika, Haast, Milford Sound, Lyttelton. Kaitaia…
Here comes the spring warmth again!
Just a week after one of the coldest national outbreaks in decades and temperatures are already swinging back to the…
Tense and exciting week for avid weather watcher
In a week when people from Auckland to Invercargill have marvelled at the country’s most widespread snow dump in decades,…
Big high turns friendly
The same high that helped drive in last weeks Antarctic blast is this week taking on a new persona –…
USA faces first hurricane threat for 2011
It’s the first hurricane threat to the United States so far this hurricane season – from tropical storm Irene which…
Great skiing week ahead
The unusual snow blast that swept across the country last week blanketed ski mountains with fresh powder making Saturday the…
Monday’s national highs
What a difference a week makes – Today’s highest temperature was 19 at Timaru! Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 10…
Four thousand aftershocks in six months
Around 4,000 aftershocks have rattled the Canterbury region since February 22, according to GNS Science records. The latest was a…
Column: An Aucklanders’ guide to cold stuff falling from sky
This year, Christchurch residents have become used to having a new word in their language – liquefaction. A week ago,…
Glance over the south
Sou’ westers picked up yesterday over the South Island but were fairly gentle and weak and in the main just…
