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Hi all

Does anyone has a link to any reliable weather stations in the Fiordland area?

Many thanks

I would say you'd have to make-ado with the MetService observations of Milford, Puysegur Point, Manapouri and Secretary Island as there's nothing else private.

http://metservice.com/national/maps-rai ... servations

thanks foggy

There are plenty of stations out there, between DOC and NIWA, and some very impressive installations for monitoring weather and snow conditions in the Milford Road area (Works Infrastructure/Transit) but the data from these is not publicly available.

Its a shame, because given the climate there it would be a fascinating place to be able to observe readings from. The metservice site while useful for real time data is not really what I'm looking for

http://www.wunderground.com/history/sta ... story.html
for Secretary Island
and
http://www.wunderground.com/history/sta ... story.html
for puysegur point
(from hourly metar reports)

Milford Road data is online just not very easy to find ! I'm not sure exactly where all of the stations are...

http://www.nzta.govt.nz/projects/milfor ... efresh=600

Oh shot, there will be a number of people (climbers especially) who are glad to know of that! How long have you been able to access that? For a long time everyone has thought that data is inaccessible.

Nice comprehensive data too, as it is used for avalanche forecasting.

The stations are on the mountains above the high section of the Milford Road.

southernthrash wrote:How long have you been able to access that?

Since at least this morning when I decided to have another look

I only found it by searching on the site ... I don't think there's an obvious link to that page.

Yea I'm pretty sure it's not linked. Bloody good to know it's there though! Will be cool to watch over winter.

Awesome stuff! Walkig the Milford track at the end of May, so its of interest to monitor the current conditions, the area has taken a reasonable hammering lately

Absolutely fantastic - the absolute best real time data for this region. A big thanks to NZTA for making the data available on-line