Story: Weather forecasting

More links and websites

• 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.