[pf] Weather in Sydney - New Zealand area.

· Here's a page I'll be updating several times a week with Tasman Sea and
Northern New Zealand weather:

http://davd.tripod.com/forecast.html#top

· Although it's mainly because our daughter is house-sitting for a month in
Auckland City itself (we're in Greenhithe, North Shore City, north of the
Waitemata harbour), and she won't be able to just ask me what the weather's
going to be like as she used to, it coincides with the Sydney Olympics, so
anyone who's interested in the weather systems in this region can also find
it useful.

· The link "satellite map", just above the infra-red 'false-colour'
satellite photo of the region, takes you to more cloud maps of this half of
the globe:
http://www.eng.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/web/metsat.html
 (look at the FTP list: ftp://ftp.eng.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/ ; I use
sector-d.gif), as well as for SE Australia. To see the whole half of the
globe, look at:
http://www.eng.jcu.edu.au/JCUMetSat/globehlast.gif

· Those 16 colours are decoded as temperatures via another link on my
davd.tripod.com/forecast.html page; the colours can usually be interpreted
as the heights of the cloud tops, i.e. how heavy the rain is likely to be.

· Arnie, as a retired meteorologist (who's worked in New Zealand) would
likely be interested.

· /I/ find this sort of broad picture much more interesting than the sort
of "sound-bite" weather you generally get on radio or TV in North America.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/index.html#top
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