Archives for May 2011
Monday’s national highs
Today’s highest temperature was 20 at Kaitaia, Gisborne, Alexandra, Dunedin Airport. Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 11 at Waiouru. …
Tornadoes return to America; deaths, injuries (+Video)
A tornado flattened buildings, snapped trees and tossed tractor-trailers like toys as it touched down in Joplin, Missouri, on Monday…
Photos (2): Surfin’ Sunday
Twin girls Charlotte and Amber Blackler (9) make the most of yesterday’s calm weather over Auckland by surfing on the safer…
South also to see change
Mainlanders have enjoyed a recent spell of fine weather but this week it appears it’s about to change as an…
Quiz answers
1/ Which year was the summer of the big dry and continuous heatwave in the UK? 1976 2/ Which New…
Another deluge on the way
As we reported on Saturday heavy rain is expected to fall across northern and western parts of the country midway…
Sunday’s national highs
Today’s highest temperature was 19 at Auckland, Tauranga, Whangarei, Kaitaia, Bay of Islands. Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 11 at…
Volcano erupts beneath glacier in Iceland
The Grimsvotn volcano under the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland was erupting Saturday, according to the Icelandic Meteorological Office. A dark…
Orphans and staff buried alive in Malaysian landslide
Two dozen people, mainly children, were buried alive when a landslide took down an orphanage in Malaysia on Saturday, the…
Thundering on about very little indeed
“Well that would have to be the biggest non-event in Auckland’s history,” wrote Mel Baker on WeatherWatch’s Facebook page last…
