Equivalent to 1,800 tonnes of TNT: what we now know about the meteor that lit up the daytime sky above New Zealand In a piece on The Conversation senior lecturer in Astronomy Michele Bannister explains what makes the meteor that was seen in New Zealand last week so unusual. It had the explosive power of…
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Incoming southerly to cut more than 10 degrees from some daytime highs
A decent southerly change is coming – but before below normal temperatures arrive, NZ has warmer than usual weather over much of the nation. A sub-tropical northerly flow and nor’west winds are combining to push temperatures up – with overnight cloud cover also keeping overnight temps above normal. However, by Tuesday PM the cold front…