Archives for July 2012
Video: Flash floods explained & drier weather coming
In this evening’s weather video Philip Duncan shows more footage from yesterday’s flash floods in Auckland and explains why they…
Queensland freezes with Southland-like temperatures
Queensland has just shivered through it’s coldest night of the year with many places dipping below 0c. Many places woke…
US: More than 1.3 million customers lack power amid unrelenting heat
Out of power since Friday, Bethesda, Maryland, resident Jacqueline Hirsch went to the library to seek relief from the heat,…
NZ broken into three sections
One end of the country is mild with sub-tropical downpours, the other end has severe frosts and in the middle?…well…
Wednesday’s national forecast
A mixed bag today with a weak ridge lying over the south of the South Island and a low stretched…
Large earthquake felt across NZ
A large earthquake has been felt across the North and South Islands tonight. The 6.5 magnitude quake was centred 60…
Eastern North Island’s turn for some heavy rain
The band of rain that gave some torrential downpours in Auckland today will slip a little further south overnight to…
Freezing Australia
Much of the Australian outback has had a freezing night with some places having their coldest night in several years….
Another “hard to start” day over Southern NZ
It’s another “hard to start” day in the south with another widespread frost covering the region. The frost reading in Invercargill…
Traffic jam over North Island skies today
A large low and a front with sub-tropical connections, sounds like a recipe for heavy rain – and it is. Today…
