Rain, Rain, Go Away...

…come again some other day.”

As a farmer’s daughter I feel I have every right to complain about, or at least comment upon, the weather. And with so much of the District being rural, it is hardly surprising that a lot of the conversation over the counter in Libraries around the area centres on whether it is too hot, too cold, too wet or too windy.

“It’s raining, it’s pouring …”

and if we want to know when it is going to stop, there are some excellent websites you can check out. One of the best is the Met Service site at http://www.metservice.com/. With rain radars, long range forecasts and current temperatures, this site has a bit of everything. There is a subscriber service which I know many farmers, contractors and fishermen around the district use. Many of the news sites also have weather links on them.

For weather information around the world (handy if you are traveling) check out http://www.predictweather.com/ or some of the larger travel sites have weather information.

Te Ara – The online Encyclopedia of New Zealand has some great weather information for projects, including some striking photographs. Go to http://www.teara.govt.nz/EarthSeaAndSky/ClimateAndAtmosphere/Weather/en

If you are looking up weather information in the library, we have plenty to help you as well, in both the children’s and adult’s non-fiction area under reference number 551.


And locally - check out the photo of the hailstones at Orewa in the New Zealand Herald this morning. A scene more often seen in the Nordic countries commented one of our librarians.