MetService NZ Rural Weather section

winzurf · Unread post by **winzurf** » Wed 15/11/2006 15:31

FYI A new rural weather section has been added to the MetService website.
http://www.metservice.com/default/index ... ralsection

Weathermad · Unread post by **Weathermad** » Wed 15/11/2006 16:49

Yes they were promoting it at the A and P ahow in Chch today

spwill · Unread post by **spwill** » Wed 15/11/2006 17:04

I see they give the weather outlook by region which is much better than a general NZ outlook.

Weather Watcher · Unread post by **Weather Watcher** » Wed 15/11/2006 20:46

It also includes hourly NZ wide radar imagery....

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... zrainradar

GraemeWi · Unread post by **GraemeWi** » Wed 15/11/2006 21:11

Weather Watcher wrote:It also includes hourly NZ wide radar imagery....

http://www.metservice.co.nz/default/ind ... zrainradar

Awesome! Just what I've been waiting for... 3 hours is too long when something is developing

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Wed 15/11/2006 23:29

Hey great to see our tax being put to good use!!

How often does the rain/wind champs model update? Is it based on a UKMO run? And how long does it then calculate for you guys to run this MM5.

Cheers

Weather Watcher · Unread post by **Weather Watcher** » Thu 16/11/2006 10:31

Foggy Hamilton wrote:How often does the rain/wind champs model update? Is it based on a UKMO run? And how long does it then calculate for you guys to run this MM5.

I think the rain meso-model updates 4 times a day and uses the US GFS model. It generally takes 6-8 hours after data time to produce the maps, but I'm not sure how often the images on the website update - winzurf will know the answer to that one.

jrj · Unread post by **jrj** » Thu 16/11/2006 10:38

A big tick to MetService

RWood · Unread post by **RWood** » Thu 16/11/2006 11:42

MetService seem to be stepping into new territory with the seasonal outlook pages...more competition for NIWA?!

Andrew Massie · Unread post by **Andrew Massie** » Thu 16/11/2006 12:13

Yep, I agree.. Impressive!

Manukau heads obs · Thu 16/11/2006 12:44

good stuff metservide, hourly rain radar updates available on the web

Manukau heads obs · Thu 16/11/2006 13:40

oh, and 1 hourly updated sat image too

(with animation as well

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oh and yes the model run for rain forecast next days, fantastic....move the mouse down the times in the list...animation!

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 16/11/2006 16:12

Does anyone know what model(s) they are using for that rain/wind forecast? I see it was quite a bit ahead of READY/GFS in moving rainfall further into Saturday here..

jrj · Unread post by **jrj** » Thu 16/11/2006 17:10

Does anyone know what the "H" with numbers underneath signify

ricky · Unread post by **ricky** » Thu 16/11/2006 17:37

looks like the total expected rainfall for each area maximum over the time period..

jrj · Unread post by **jrj** » Fri 17/11/2006 08:51

I assume that the purple line is expected snow areas

Fujita Phil · Unread post by **Fujita Phil** » Fri 17/11/2006 16:51

Hey I just like that I can use my mouse's scrolling wheel to forward or back the rain and sat maps