Another fascinating example of the baleful influence of climate change dogmas and useless Govt forecasting on normal media reporting standards.
By all accounts the rain was useful in many areas to freshen up grass and give feed growth a summer boost. A subtext is that the NIWA three month Outlooks predict dryer than normal conditions due El Nino – so rain sort of goes against that meme. I like the oracle quoted to explain how it rained because air moved from east to west.
I see another article – Urgent need to act on our water supply – Whaleoil is on to it. It seems anti-dam dogmas are rife in NZ and all manner of special interest groups get into the act to make a needed new dam even more impossible. When will water users start voting for an adequate water supply at an affordable price?
Readings from various NZ sites mostly MetService for the 1st to 4th January 2016 – here is url for Kerikeri
www.metservice.com/towns-cities/kerikeri
just change the URL for other places.
A correspondent sent in the private readings and this url has a useful list of private NZ weather sites –
Elliot Bay tops the bidding with 190mm – I hope it is not washed away!
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Emailed in from NZ southern Bay of Islands region.
More torrential rain today – 57mm so far at Kerikeri today, probably more at Elliot Bay.
www.metservice.com/towns-cities/kerikeri
What’s the point of these long term forecasts when they are consistently wrong?