Public asked to help build national flood photo database
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
NIWA is asking people in flood-affected areas to contribute photos to a national database to...
Hotspot Watch 14 April 2022
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...
Valuable work of weather volunteers
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Every day at 8am Hawke’s Bay farmer Robert Buchanan heads out to his rain gauge...
Hotspot Watch 26 March 2021
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...
Hotspot Watch 26 November 2021
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...
Our seas are sizzling again
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Coastal sea temperatures around Aotearoa New Zealand have risen well above average, NIWA forecasters say.
Marine...
Hotspot Watch 12 February 2021
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...
Subterranean sensing
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Once a year, technicians from NIWA’s North Island Field Team don helmets and head lamps...
Dramatic first weeks for Wellington’s newly hatched kororā
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
Two kororā chicks – also known as little blue penguins – have hatched in Wellington....
Scientists unite across world for decade of ocean research
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
In 1872 the HMS Challenger left Portsmouth in the UK on a four-year circumnavigation of...
Hotspot Watch 22 January 2021
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...
Hotspot Watch 17 February 2022
Source: NIWA – National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
A weekly update describing soil moisture patterns across the country to show where dry to...