The Canterbury region has just been flooded with a “one-in-100-year event” – yet the NIWA Outlook was for “below average rain”. Should be mass sackings over the ditch. I see MetService has a message –[Cumulative Rainfall Map Unavailable – Unfortunately the cumulative rainfall maps have not captured the recent heavy rainfall accurately and have been … Continue reading NZ NIWA rain Outlook huge fail→
Days after publishing their “climate Outlook” NIWA’s work is demolished by a damaging biblical deluge NIWA was too incompetent to see coming. Hilarious – yet these taxpayer funded leech Climate orgs have any status left? MetService for NZ weather
A very good “STUFF” Editorial I missed a year ago. I often comment on NZ weather and climate issues but getting hold of basic data and map presentations as can be easily found for Australia at the BoM www site – is time consuming and near impossible for NZ. As STUFF says “We believe public … Continue reading Why does New Zealand need both MetService and NIWA?→
NIWA said only on Tuesday – Near-record warmth expected for parts of the South Island 17 Oct 17 – I have been checking places like Alexandra, Dunedin, Christchurch but can see little trace of this. Does anybody know what October hottest day records would be?
Web footed Kiwis are emailing me as Christchurch and regions floods again. Whenever I have read NIWA Outlooks they seem utterly useless – This reasoning is based on the similar chemical structure of india viagra generic can make this possible that single consumption will entertain your life for an absolute thirty six hours by redeeming … Continue reading Christchurch floods again – how useful are NIWA Outlooks?→
The NZ climate prediction maestros look to have dropped another dodgy one – to my untrained eye anyway. Stuff says – Live: Christchurch declares state of emergency, orders evacuation as floods rise – and the NZ Herald with hopeless front page – Winter storm chaos: What you need to know If I read the COLA … Continue reading NIWA “dryer than average” New Zealand rain Outlook looks under threat – again→
Just as useless as our BoM – the NIWA March to May Outlook issued 1st March wrecked by heavy rain they never saw coming. They said – Regional predictions for the March – May 2017 season Northland, Auckland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty Rainfall totals are about equally likely to be in the near normal (35% … Continue reading NIWA 3 month Outlook destroyed inside two weeks→
This article from Stuff reporting NIWA-talk mentions “A persistent lack of southerlies had a profound impact on the monthly temperatures.” Or you could say northerly winds brought a flow of warm tropical air over the New Zealand region during June – as shown by this BoM map. The NZ Herald says – The winter of … Continue reading NIWA reports on record New Zealand warmth for June 2014→
Hackers must be bored and hard up for something to do – Hack attack on Niwa from China IP address – What could be of interest to hackers there? – except the cheap thrill of being inside where they should not be. On the other hand – In February 2011 I lodged an FOI request … Continue reading New Zealand climate gurus NIWA hacked from IP address in China→
Primarily exposing faulty methodologies behind global temperature trend compilations