The North Island has had a lot of rain over the last 12 or so hours, but still not enough to balance out the lack of rain earlier this year over summer. And the South Island has been mainly clear.…
As can happen from time to time, there was not a single capture this morning when I went to look at the images. So I kicked off my usual trouble shooting routine. First place to check is the captures page,…
As we posted yesterday in “NOAA 9 – Back from the Dead?” it appears that NOAA 9 is far from dead based on our captures of four passes of the satellite over New Zealand over the last 24 hours. Three…
NOAA 9 was one of the early NOAA polar-orbiting weather satellites which was launched in 1984. The last contact was in February 1998. However, it has recently been broadcasting during daylight with a narrow constant frequency. This is most likely…
The 5.25am NOAA 19 pass this morning is showing a pretty intense band of rain approaching New Zealand, due to hit the Fjiordland area in the next few hours before spreading across the rest of the country over the rest…