Very dangerous weather situation ahead

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 20/03/2006 23:09

LOL - how can anyone hate nice weather? Though there is something about being cosy in front of the burner in the evening when the weather is really bad outside. Winter is coming so the nice weather will come to an end.

I'm hoping for a decent snow fall down here this year - doesn't happen often enough for my liking. The countryside may get falls but we seem to miss out in the city

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Mon 20/03/2006 23:18

Flutterbye wrote:LOL - how can anyone hate nice weather? Though there is something about being cosy in front of the burner in the evening when the weather is really bad outside. Winter is coming so the nice weather will come to an end.

I'm hoping for a decent snow fall down here this year - doesn't happen often enough for my liking. The countryside may get falls but we seem to miss out in the city

Put it this way... I fix machines... Machines that cool... Machines that cool don't like hot weather, makes them work hard, and then lots of them break down, then I have to run round like a headless chicken fixing them for the people who want cold stuff! 8 years of summers doing that makes you dread summer, particulary 30+ degree days!

p.s Love snow too!

Flutterbye · Unread post by **Flutterbye** » Mon 20/03/2006 23:22

Your workload should start to slow down soon then

Good night

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Mon 20/03/2006 23:24

$\:D/$ Yeah <sigh of relief> Yay!

Nitey nite

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Tue 21/03/2006 11:51

Andrew Massie wrote:
NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: Invercargill and Christchurch weather would be SO Boring
We'd continually moan like some others on this forum

JohnGaul
NZTS
NOOOOOOOO!!!!

It's a trap to assume too much about the weather during Nino/Nina episodes. Quite a few other factors come into play.

This is a set of SOI values in mid-70s:

1974 20.8 16.2 20.3 11.1 10.7 2.6 12.0 6.6 12.3 8.5 -1.4 -0.9
1975 -4.9 5.3 11.6 14.4 6.0 15.5 21.1 20.7 22.5 17.7 13.8 19.5
1976 11.8 12.9 13.2 1.2 2.1 0.2 -12.8 -12.1 -13.0 3.0 9.8 -3.0
1977 -4.0 7.7 -9.5 -9.6 -11.4 -17.7 -14.7 -12.1 -9.4 -12.9 -14.6 -10.6

Warmer than average temps prevailed for most of 1975 (not June-July, however!) but while la Nina-like values lasted till autumn 1976, temps became cold from Nov 1975 onwards. Dry settled conditions occurred in Southland, Otago and inland Canty form late 1975 to mid-1976. El Nino states took a hold in 1977 and it was a cold year, as was 1976. The neutral 1976-77 "summer" was very cold. For Wellington and some eastern areas all 4 of the years shown were wet overall. Most places got very dry conditions in Jan-March 1978 as the El Nino phase ended.