Disclaimer: The forecasts offered in this page draw upon modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [2022] (C3S, https://climate.Copernicus.eu). There is inherent uncertainty in ...

To support this work, Rotary Pacific Water (RPW), a Fiji-based non-profit organisation delivering water, sanitation and hygiene solutions in rural Fiji, worked with Earth Sciences NZ to develop and ...

Chosen from over 200 applicants, this cohort includes Ueakeia Tofinga, the National Hydrography Coordinator for Kiribati, Jessica Maoh, a law graduate and Early Career Ocean Professional posted to ...

Please choose in which format you would like to download the dataset, below. Mean monthly sunshine (hours) 1981-2010 (CSV 3 KB) Mean monthly sunshine (hours) 1981 ...

The Southern Annular Mode, or SAM, is a ring of climate variability that encircles the South Pole and extends out to the latitudes of New Zealand. The SAM involves alternating windiness and storm ...

Storms are associated with periods of strong often damaging winds, heavy flood-producing rainfall, thunder and lightning, heavy snowfall or blizzard conditions. To predict storms in New Zealand, ...

Effective fish screen facilities work with fish behaviour, not against it. Most of New Zealand’s native freshwater fish are small, bottom-dwelling species with relatively limited swimming ability.

A New Zealand-led team has completed the fullest investigation to date into January’s eruption of the underwater Tongan volcano. Hunga-Tonga Hunga-Ha'apai (HT-HH) emitted the biggest atmospheric ...

The tables below show the probabilities (or percent chances) for each of three categories: above average, near average, and below average. In the absence of any forecast guidance there would be an ...

Air flow patterns are expected to tend towards a west or southwesterly flow anomaly, characteristic of El Niño conditions, as the season progresses. June may behave as a transitional month, and the ...

Earth Sciences New Zealand meteorologists are anticipating a significant El Niño influence on weather patterns across the country from winter onwards, potentially bringing reduced rainfall for some ...