Scoop Images: Supercomputer Plots Stubborn Storm

Wednesday, 3 November 1999, 4:59 pm
Article: Alastair Thompson

TV3 weather guru Augie Auer is predicting a big horrible mean storm for the coming 48 hours. Put away your boats. Watch out for floods and stay at home, he says.

The following are a set of NOAA supercomputer generated images showing the storm from tomorrow afternoon at six hourly intervals. The coloured lines denote rain over a six hour period. Each line is 1mm. The other lines are isobars. This looks like a very stubborn storm.

+24hrs

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+30hrs

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+36hrs

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+42hrs

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+48hrs

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+54hrs

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+60hrs

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Alastair Thompson is the co-founder of Scoop. He is of Scottish and Irish extraction and from Wellington, New Zealand. Alastair has 24 years experience in the media, at the Dominion, National Business Review, North & South magazine, Straight Furrow newspaper and online since 1997. He is the winner of several journalism awards for business and investigative work.

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