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Tropical storm headed for New Zealand.

1/1/2018

Having just done a post on the unstable weather conditions due to the warm water in the Tasman Sea I had a quick look at Met Vuw.
There is a tropical storm coming down from the Pacific, which is a bit early in the season but not unusual.

What is interesting is that the storm is forecast to go down the West coast and over the warm water in the Tasman Sea where it picks up heat and energy, it intensives and the pressure drops tp 992.
To make it worse the storms southwards path is blocked by a high pressure system and it gets stuck.
Much like the hurricane that struck Texas.

This is a four day forecast and a lot can change but you can see the effects of the warm water in the forecast.

2 Comments

Bob Bristow

26/1/2018 05:34:33 pm

It is becoming a long and uncomfortably hot summer in New Zealand and now it has killed. CO2 is still steadily increasing and the well known greenhouse effect of the well mixed trace gas means even hotter summers are more or less guaranteed in the future. Floods in Paris, icy mayhem in U.S.A. Time to put the brakes on carbon emissions and hard.

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Bob Bingham

27/1/2018 02:34:30 pm

Hello Bob. We are finding it very hot up here in Northland. Its about 3C more than normal which makes it very uncomfortable. Fortunately we have had several odd weeks of rain and so, despite the heat we are not currently in drought..the problem with the heat is instability of the weather and Dan the TV weatherman is forecasting a tropical storm for next week. MetVuw thinks that it will miss us but it may not. http://www.metvuw.com/forecast/forecast1.php?type=rain®ion=swp&tim=108

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