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2021 comes to a close
It is time to say good-bye to 2021. We will finish the year with a fine, dry, and mild day across the upper North Island with no rain...
Dec 31, 20211 min read


Monthly sea level peak for December 2021
The lunar month’s highest tide occurred on 6th December for Waitemata harbour and Great Barrier Island. The Waitemata harbour tidal gauge...
Dec 29, 20211 min read


A Boxing Day Fire Rainbow
A rare 'Circumhorizontal arc' or otherwise known as a 'Fire Rainbow' has been spotted over the Coromandel Peninsula this afternoon. This...
Dec 26, 20211 min read


Hottest Christmas day for 12 years
Lights winds and ample sun has helped produced the hottest Christmas day since 2009 across the upper North Island. It was mid to high...
Dec 26, 20211 min read


Tropical moisture brings plenty of rain for upper North
Water tanks, wildlife, gardens and the landscape had a well earned drink over the last few days. Tropical moisture from Cyclone Ruby...
Dec 15, 20212 min read


Atmosphere triggers a sunset spectacle
Tonight's moisture rich atmosphere combined with short-wavelength violet light has created vivid lavender and red colours at sunset...
Dec 7, 20211 min read


Warm and dry November signals tropical risk in December
Marine temperatures in the shallows are now around 20 to 21c, with some beaches around Auckland’s harbours and the Firth of Thames at...
Nov 30, 20211 min read


Monthly sea level peak for November 2021
The lunar month’s highest tide occurred on 7th November for Waitemata harbour. Due to instrument issues, Great Barrier Island has had to...
Nov 30, 20211 min read


Rangitoto shows that summer is arriving
Day time heating this morning on Rangitoto's volcanic rocks has caused warm air to rise, producing atmospheric convection and it own...
Nov 26, 20211 min read


NASA launches a mission to crash into an asteroid
In Space news this evening, clear weather has allowed NASA to successfully launch a rocket and spacecraft from California in its first...
Nov 24, 20211 min read


Funnel cloud above Rangitoto
A nice 'fair weather funnel cloud' appeared last night over the Gulf around Rangitoto. The harmless rotating vortex developed at the base...
Nov 17, 20211 min read


Warm and stormy finish for the southern areas of the gulf
Saturday 6th November was the warmest day for most areas since 25th March. The day time heat has helped triggered a line of showers and...
Nov 7, 20211 min read


A magical Aurora Australis seen from Auckland
Another major G3 level (KP7) geomagnetic storm has hit the planet in the last 12 hours. The plasma cloud driven by a vigorous 700 km/sec...
Nov 5, 20211 min read


A very wet October
Did you think it was a wet October? You were right, it was one of the wettest in decades in some areas thanks to a north-easterly La Nina...
Oct 31, 20212 min read


Monthly sea level peak for October 2021
The lunar month’s highest tide occurred on 7th October for Waitemata harbour and Great Barrier Island. The Waitemata harbour tidal gauge...
Oct 31, 20211 min read


Reawakened gulf fault has another small earthquake
Reawakened gulf fault triggers another small shallow earthquake this morning. A magnitude 1.5 was detected at 4:53am by GeoNet, between...
Oct 30, 20211 min read


Major X class solar flare
The sun erupted a major solar flare this morning at around 4:30am NZT causing a X class solar flare to hurtle towards earth. The region...
Oct 29, 20211 min read


M5.9 quake rattles the North and South Islands
A notable magnitude 5.9 earthquake, 210km deep has rattled across NZ at 10.58am this morning. Located 60km to the north west of Mt...
Oct 22, 20211 min read


A rare 'Fire Rainbow' over Auckland
A rare 'Circumhorizontal arc' or otherwise known as a 'Fire Rainbow' has been spotted above Auckland this afternoon. This natural...
Oct 20, 20211 min read


A La Niña weather pattern is arriving
The equatorial Pacific's upper ocean temperatures are cooling dramatically as we head towards summer. This is being caused by tropical...
Oct 17, 20211 min read
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