MetService Website (2016)

[Tornado Tim]

It seems that Metservice has partnered with stuff.co.nz for weather news on the main website.

I really wonder how long that will last giving the notorious amounts of miss reporting going on in regards to the Weather.

Anyway, the adblock tool comes in quite handy for removing it from view

[Nev]

I don't think those media weather headlines are exclusively from Stuff (Fairfax Media), and are probably just keyed into any story that contains the (PascalCase) word 'MetService'.

I personally don't really have a problem the concept per se and having scrolling headlines would be far less distracting than ticker-type headlines.

Interesting that MS's homepage currently has no ads though. What I found really irritating some time ago was having those flying-pigs floating across their homepage.

[Orion]

No Rain Radar this morning yet, one is reduced to looking out the window...

[Richard]

An example of why eastern North Canterbury should not be in the Canterbury High Country section, Culverden will be lucky to even get a shower little lone three days of rain.

[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

Was those temperatures up there in Culverden today?
Probably not. I doubt if there will be any rain with the southerly overnight.
MetService can be quite vague in some of their forecasts, these days?

[Richard]

No, 7deg the difference today.

[James J.]

A Question.
What happened to the interesting daily and weekly rainfall maps that appeared for a couple of days last month?
I was enjoying looking at them.

[Nev]

Yeah, I'd forgotten about that. I think they said they had some technical issues, but that was about 4 weeks ago and the link is still active…

[spwill]

It would be good to show the temperatures for the past month for Alexandra on the website.

[Lunar2]

Guess we'll be hearing more about "mini tornadoes" then

[James J.]

.....and the rainfall maps are back.

[tich]

Typo in mountain forecast for North Island had snow to 100m today! Now corrected to a more believable 1000m.

[James J.]

and the rainfall maps have gone again.....

[03Stormchaser]

I see Metservice have lost there bbc contract

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[NZ Thunderstorm Soc]

MetServices's short forecasts are getting very vague these days I find?

[Nev]

Good on MS for correcting the media on the misuse of the term 'weather-bomb'…

'What is a Storm?' - MetService Blog


Note that although their South Pacific definition of a Tropical Storm is technically correct, it may've also been worth mentioning that on the JMA Typhoon scale, the terms Tropical Storm and Severe Tropical Storm are the respective equivalents of a Cat 1 and Cat 2 on the Australian and Fiji TC Scales. And on the US Hurricane Scale, the term Tropical Storm is also very roughly the equivalent of about a Cat 1 to Cat 2 on the Australian and Fiji TC Scales. But perhaps that might just be a bit too confusing for our media…

[James J.]

And..... does anyone know where "Dan the Man" Corbett has gone?
He is missing in action. I'm going through withdrawal symptoms!

[Nev]

A little OT but, TVNZ's Dan Corbett has been in the US for a few weeks... back today.

[Nev]

Just in case you're not already aware, MS have been having some issues with access to their website today and are currently investigating.

Edit: Seems to be mostly fixed now (fingers crossed)...