Archives for June 2011
3 rain makers lining up for North Island
It’s rain band after rain band for the North Island this week and into the weekend as a series of lows…
Don’t be SAD, summer’s on the way
Today is the shortest day of the year…the winter solstice occurred at 5:16am which means the earth stopped tilting the…
5.3 aftershock – Christchurch hit hard again
Besieged Christchurch was struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake last night – the latest in a series of powerful aftershocks….
The Winter Solstice has arrived!
The Winter Solstice is when the sun’s apparent position in our sky reaches its northern most point – giving us our…
44 dead in Russian plane crash
At least 44 people died when a Russian jetliner crashed onto a highway outside the northwestern city of Petrozavodsk late…
Tuesday’s national highs
Today’s highest temperature was 19 at Bay of Islands. Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 5 at Gore. Kaitaia : 18…
Volcanic ash returning to NZ, flights cancelled in OZ
The ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano is set to return to New Zealand tomorrow as flights in Australia…
A short lived breather from the rain arrives
The low that brought a tornado to New Plymouth and a deadly landslide to the eastern Bay of Plenty over the…
Volcano evacuees return home in Chile
Thousands of people in southern Chile were told they could return home yesterday, some two weeks after a volcanic eruption…
Monday’s national highs
Today’s highest temperature was 18 at Whangarei, Gisborne. Today’s lowest maximum temperature was 7 at Molesworth. Kaitaia : 17 Whangarei…
