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Bermuda waits for Bill; Waves 11 metres high predicted
Hurricane Bill continues to have winds of 170km winds, and it remains a category 2 storm. Bill continues moving over…
Hurricane Bill – Bermuda on hurricane watch
Hurricane Bill has strengthened a little this morning after slightly weakening overnight. Winds near the centre remain at 205km/h. This makes…
Big Bad Bill
Hurricane Bill remains Category 4 status this afternoon with warnings now appearing for the eastern United States for dangerous seas and rips…
Flights to Antarctica resume
The first flight to Antarctica for six months will depart from Christchurch today. Following three months of darkness and half…
BLOG – It’s the little things that annoy us
By Philip Duncan, head weather analyst In the mid-90s I had the chance to listen to a guest speaker who talked…
Major Hurricane Bill becomes Cat 4 – Hurricane Hunter enroute again
Hurricane Bill remains a major Category 4 hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale today… 5 is the highest. The hurricane is tipped to…
Bill to become “major hurricane”; Hurricane Hunter deployed
UPDATED The United States government has this morning (NZT) deployed a Hurricane Hunter (Lockheed Orion) aircraft to fly directly into…
Hurricane Bill roars up to Cat 2 status
Hurricane Bill has this morning roared up to category 2 status after only officially becoming a hurricane less than 12 hours ago. …
Bill becomes first Hurricane of the season
The first hurricane of the 2009 Atlantic hurricane season formed Monday night NZT. As of 9pm NZT Hurricane Bill was a…
Claudette makes landfall & will Bill become a hurricane tonight?
Tropical Storm Claudette tonight made landfall in Florida. The storm didn’t strengthen further and damage was expected to be minimal. Meanwhile…
