Rain brightens late New Zealand season

Rain brightens late New Zealand season

The NIWA soil anomaly map has a radically different look this week after big rains last week across the west coast and across most of the north island. The deluge isn’t over as more rain is expected over both islands from two storm systems that are spinning south out...
Rain brightens late New Zealand season

NIWA moves to La Niña alert

A progression toward La Niña conditions occurred in the equatorial Pacific during October and NIWA has moved to La Niña Alert. Temperatures are very likely to be above average across Aotearoa New Zealand (65% chance) with a period of particularly warm conditions from...
Rain brightens late New Zealand season

NIWA’s NZ weather outlook

The latest climate outlook from weather forecaster NIWA is for a warmer spring with less rainfall for some parts of New Zealand. Warmer than average temperatures are expected through spring with unseasonably warm conditions at times in the east of both the North and...
Rain brightens late New Zealand season

US drought worsens

Nearly half of the land mass of the contiguous United States is experiencing drought conditions, according to the latest US Drought Monitor released last week, and conditions are getting worse in the Northern Plains and west of the Rocky Mountains. The drought is dire...
Rain brightens late New Zealand season

Floods clean up underway in South Island

New Zealand farmers and growers have started the clean up after the one in 100 years event that flooded Canterbury in the South Island a week ago. The New Zealand Government has activated its Enhanced Taskforce Green along with NZ$500,000 to help with the clean-up....
Rain brightens late New Zealand season

Sth Island flooding

The Canterbury region has been hit by floods with a state of emergency issued for the region and Civil Defence warning of ongoing dangerous river conditions and further flooding. Residents across Canterbury districts are being evacuated with emergency alerts to be...