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Archives for July 2012

Rain heading back to the North Island

A low pressure centre will make its way toward the North Island overnight.  Already, rain is falling about parts of…

Clouds blanket much of NZ today

So how is your Saturday? Here in the Waikato, it’s been a very cloudy day.  It even looked like we…

VIDEO- Scary video of crumbling glacier

As we told you earlier this week, a big chunk of ice broke off from a Greenland glacier this week….

Phil’s weekly column: I don’t ever want 100% accurate forecasts

Weather technology continues to improve globally as better weather satellites are launched, newer, faster, data crunching computers are built and…

Saturday’s national forecast

A low coming in off the Tasman continues to make its way toward the North Island this morning. This means…

Weather Video – Spring weather moves in thanks to sub-tropical low

Can you believe it’s Friday already?!  In today’s weather video Philip Duncan updates us on the large sub-tropical low which…

Outlook for the weekend

Conditions are still looking mostly the same as in Howard’s article this morning. The departing high and incoming low towards…

Mt Tongariro volcanic alert level lifted amidst jump in activity (+ seismograph)

BREAKING NEWS — GNS Science has this afternoon lifted Mt Tongariro’s volcanic alert status to level one and aviation status from green to…

High pollution levels in Christchurch – Fog for CNI

Well it certainly isn’t getting to 17 degrees at this rate in Christchurch today. There is plenty of haze about…

Photo + Story – What is this Martian mystery?

What created this unusual hole in Mars?  The hole was discovered by chance on images of the dusty slopes of…