Excellent, thanks, Brian, but it will take a bit of hoisting aboard.
Chris
On 18 Jun 2013, at 11:58, Brian Swale <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There are many different climates in this little country, Chris.
> New Zealand is a long thin country.
> Think 1200 miles long and averaging ?? 150 - 200 miles wide
> The warm end is about at equivalent latitudes to Gibraltar and the southern
> about equivalent to Devon, but without the Gulf Stream to warm it.
>
> The South Island has a backbone of high Alps rising to 12,300 ft at Mt Cook
>
> For the mid North Island southwards, the climate is determined by an
> endless succession of low and high pressure areas with cold fronts between
> them. We do get affected by weather patterns from Australia 1400 miles to
> the west; but mostly this seems to be from about Auckland at the north.
> They have some glorious sunsets there which I suspect include a lot of
> suspended dust from the Australian deserts.
>
> The very north of the country has more tropical influences.
>
> I think the climate is characterised generally as maritime, but where I live
> is
> somewhat more continental with quite hot summers and winters that can be
> cold. In fact the Southern Alps are quite to very cold in winter.
>
> Generally, and especially in the south, the west is very wet and the central
> and eastern parts tend to be quite dry. This is due to the orographic effects
> of moist air passing over the Alps. With increasing altitude, the clouds are
> forced to dump their water as water or snow, then proceed easterly to
> dessicate things out.
>
> How's that for a thumbnail sketch?
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