GreggWard wrote:107mm to 8pm and still raining. Although, looking at the radar and satellite images, the rain looks like it should decrease in the next couple of hours.
Thanks for the update! The Taranaki, Wanaganui, Horowhenua and Manawatu situation has been progessively getting worse all day. A lot of disruption for you people up there. The Wellington region has been sheltered from the worst of this one - have had a few people ringing me today thinking that we were in it too. But we had only 41 mm here at Tawa on Friday and today was relatively dry.
But things sound pretty bad for some regions just north of here. I understand the spillway near Waitarere was opened this afternoon to release some of the river flows. When I had a place up there we knew things were serious when the spillway was opened!
132.6mm to midnight last night, for Palmy. No wonder the drains couldn't cope. I was listening to the scanner last night and the Police were really busy closing off roads and helping people who had driven through the floods and got stuck.
It's been a very pleasant sunny winter's afternoon here after fog and ground frost to start. Winds have switched to the NW from a light NE and pushed temps up to 15C.
If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.
NZstorm wrote:
If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.
If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.
This should be nominated as post of the year!! Where is the forum oscars!
You don't need a science degree to forecast the weather, all you need to do is study Thermodynamics, be fairly knowledgable when it comes to Math and have some common sense. The latter is lacking in many 'meteorologists' that 'forecast' the weather.
Rule number 1 when it comes to forecasting the weather (or running any business for that matter), you can't make money out of just doing exactly what everyone else does, you have to have a point of difference. Starting a social media business that does exactly what other companies do is always going to end in tears.
I started a weather group almost 9 years ago and resisted the urge to commercialise it and I'm glad I did, almost 9 years on we have over 5000 twitter followers and 4000 plus likes on Facebook. But that took a lot of work and 9 years. There was a weather group that was established before us and they have 1000 less likes on Facebook and no presence on twitter.
NZstorm wrote:
If you want a career in the weather industry I suggest a registered company is the last thing you would need.
A science degree related to meteorology would be a good starting point if you are interested in the forecasting side of it.
This forum needs a like button.
A "like" button is the last thing we need. Can't we leave that to facebook?
This is a forum for sharing thoughts and observations. Not a stage.
