TV Weather

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Sun 20/06/2004 19:21

I don't wish to dump on trained professionals or anything. I know they have great knowledge and do their best. But where does TV One collect its weather data?

The day's lowest high (?) was in Queenstown apparently, with 6Â°...that seems strange to me considering the Omarama weather station logged a high of 4.2Â° at 12:34 this afternoon and even that appears to have been an anomolous spike, as two glass thermometers at different places in town recorded a lower high (around 3.6Â°, give or take a degree).

There's also a professional-grade weather station about 1 km south of my station, owned and operated by AgResearch, at the Tara Hills Research Station. Why don't they ask them what the temperature was there? If Omarama recorded those temperatures, you can guarantee there was somebody elsewhere with an even lower daily high. How about Alexandra, Andy?

Yesterday they mentioned that the MacKenzie received a "light dusting" of snow on Friday, around 5 cm. I got 5" (which is what, 12.5 cm?) of snow here at the office and some of the farmers on more remote stations reported as much as 7-8"...that might be a light dusting in, say, Nebraska, but not in New Zealand as far as I'm aware. Mount Cook village got 40 cm of snow! The Lindis Pass was closed for almost 24 hours and the graders were out in force.

Besides this misreporting, the general weather picture they paint, including forecasts, almost never seems to bear out actual events as experienced by people not in airconditioned offices in Wellington. I'm not saying that they have to report the temperature and conditions from every single town in New Zealand, but surely they could at least TRY to get it right?

I'm not even going to waste my time watching television weather reports anymore. :-\

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Sun 20/06/2004 20:18

Awumado Y doo doo fong g garay Ter ganga Where are they?

Gary Roberts wrote:I'm not even going to waste my time watching television weather reports anymore. :-\

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 21/06/2004 21:20

Yes, Gary, I gave up watching TV forecasts a while ago as the weather reports weren't very good, especially after jim hickey and augie auer left.
...and since the Internet has developed good information regarding weather, I rely on that for weather info.
I have noticed on the occasions I have watched the nightly weather reports there having been differences between the 2 channels regarding temperatures etc...
I get sick of the non-related weather news that you get on TV weather forecasts, ie. children patting ducks near an oyster farm near Nelson, when you know that there is a major thunderstorm outbreak near Auckland

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 21/06/2004 22:21

The reporters love to make us Ak'ders jealous by showing in Nelson in a SW situation how nice it is there while we get windblown stratus and horizontal rain

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:I get sick of the non-related weather news that you get on TV weather forecasts, ie. children patting ducks near an oyster farm near Nelson, when you know that there is a major thunderstorm outbreak near Auckland

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Tue 22/06/2004 18:27

3 says isobars not so tight so winds easing-Yes perhaps south but in Auckland we still get a gale with a 1015 isobar and a 1000 low off the east NI coast and it still blows

tich · Unread post by **tich** » Tue 22/06/2004 22:09

What irritates me is when they have 'technical difficulties' and can't bring you the full display. OK these problems may often be out of their control, but on other occasions they should be able to sort it out before the weather comes on - eg why couldn't they think ahead and put new batteries in the presenter's remote.

Gary Roberts · Unread post by **Gary Roberts** » Tue 22/06/2004 22:39

tich wrote:What irritates me is when they have 'technical difficulties' and can't bring you the full display. OK these problems may often be out of their control, but on other occasions they should be able to sort it out before the weather comes on - eg why couldn't they think ahead and put new batteries in the presenter's remote.

I'm sure they'd be happy as hell to turf out the poor weather person and replace the whole segment with ads.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 23/06/2004 18:37

TV tonight shows "1" isobar over the northern 1/2 of the country on the synoptic chart however it was only marginally better than yesterday,no hail today but as many showers and the wind dropped only a tad

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 28/06/2004 18:28

On TV3 they went on about the sunshine and mild June in Chch.
Lucky them unlike our wet hideous weather

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 28/06/2004 18:51

Michael wrote:On TV3 they went on about the sunshine and mild June in Chch.
Lucky them unlike our wet hideous weather

Yes, if it's going to mild like this next winter, I might take a holiday to the Auckland Islands so I can experience a nice winter

JohnGaul
NZTS

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Mon 28/06/2004 19:03

What Auckland Islands

Rangitoto in or the Real ones down in the polar westerlies

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote:Yes, if it's going to mild like this next winter, I might take a holiday to the Auckland Islands so I can experience a nice winter

JohnGaul
NZTS

NZstorm · Unread post by **NZstorm** » Mon 28/06/2004 19:53

Strangely enough the Auckland Islands(Sub Antartic) were warmer than Christchurch on the 6pm Met Service obs today. Ch 8.2C, Auckland Islands 9.2C.
Mokohinau Island in the Huaraki Gulf was 13.1C.

Michael · Unread post by **Michael** » Wed 30/06/2004 18:59

It can look confusing what way the wind is blowing on TV3 with them showing the country "upside down" until you see them moving north to south

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