Archives for June 2013
Record-setting heat wave turns fatal in US Southwest
Death Valley resident Mike Wood says he’s used to the heat. But when his running shoes begin to melt, he…
July – how long will this new warmth last?
The weather this week – and next – will be dominated by winds from the westerly quarter. This week many…
Monday’s national forecast
An anticyclone is centred just north of the North Island today while a westerly airflow covers the rest of the…
Sunday night’s national forecast
An anticyclone is centred over Northland tonight bringing light winds while a westerly airflow persists further south. Clear skies out…
Wettest June in over 50 years for parts of Melbourne
For some Melbourne suburbs it has been the wettest June in over 50 years with three times the normal monthly…
Warmer change starts to build today
The warmer change that we predicted last week is today starting to develop over the South Island as a westerly…
NASA – Why the sun gets so hot
How do the outer reaches of the sun get so hot? That’s one of the questions that NASA has set…
Sunday’s national forecast
A high remains over the Tasman but showers are now being caught up in the anticyclonic wind flow. Northland A…
Wellington storm clean up: 85 homes still without power
Eighty-five Wellington homes remain without electricity, more than a week after a destructive storm knocked out power to much of…
4th Boeing Dreamliner grounded in 10 days
An All Nippon Airways 787 Dreamliner was held in Tokyo after a mechanical problem, the fourth such incident for Dreamliners…
