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Topical New Zealand weather links

New radar imagery on MetService.com

National composite radar image - "real-time" with updates every 7.5 minutes, also hourly imagery

Westland radar imagery - NZ's newest weather radar, launched on 23 November

MV Rena - container ship grounding in Bay of Plenty

Port of Tauranga weather conditions - including wave height and winds
Mt Maunganui surf report and webcam - from surf.co.nz

Weather conditions and forecasts from MetService.com:

• Tauranga city - includes current temperature and wind
• Papamoa Beach and Surf Forecast - includes webcam, sea temperature and tides
• Astrolabe Boating Forecast - includes sea temperature and tides
• Bay of Plenty Recreational Marine Forecast - includes tides
• Plenty Coastal Forecast
   
• Bay of Plenty Radar - high resolution imagery, last 2hrs every 7.5min
• 3-day raind+wind forecast - from one of MetService's mesoscale models

Swell forecast charts - from MetOcean Solutions Ltd.

News and info:

• Rena news section on Stuff.co.nz
• Follow the conversation on Twitter via hastags #rena and #nzoilspill
• MV Rena on Wikipedia

A lunar approach to weather forecasting?

Can the moon be used to forecast the weather as claimed by controversial "Moon Man" Ken Ring? In my opinion - most definitely NOT! Perhaps the best and most logical comment on this issue was made by ERICK BRENSTRUM in the May-June 2006 NZ Geographic magazine,
You can't argue with that!

If you'd like to read what others are saying about Ken Ring and his highly questionable methods, including comments by respected members of the New Zealand scientific community such as ERICK BRENSTRUM (of MetService) and JIM RENWICK (of NIWA), click through to my Lunarcy page, which I hope you'll find as a useful starting place...



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