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Further Sources

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History of the Meteorological Service up to 1927

A PDF of a paper by J. F.de Lisle, published in the Royal Society of New Zealand Bulletin 21 (1984).
MetService

MetService publishes weather forecasts for New Zealand, as well as showing rain radar and satellite images.
National Climate Centre – NIWA Science

The pages of the National Climate Centre on the website of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) gives information on New Zealand weather.
NIWA – web cam sites

NIWA provides a number of web cams which allow you to directly check the weather in different parts of the country.
Ocean surface winds derived from the SeaWinds scatterometer

This website publishes over-sea wind measurements.

More suggestions and sources

Brenstrum, Erick. The New Zealand weather book. Nelson: Craig Potton, 1998.
De Lisle, J. F. Sails to satellites: a history of meteorology in New Zealand. Wellington: New Zealand Meteorological Service, 1986.
Neale, A. A. A practical guide to weather forecasting in New Zealand. Wellington: GP Publications on behalf of the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, 1993.

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