Found 5 results tagged with 'climate'
Tips and tricks for growing cold sensitive plants in areas that get frost
Details We get a number of frosts each winter but generally not lower than -5 centigrade. This does pose a challenge for growing certain plants, but with the right techniques I try to make it happen.Regional Climate Statistics for New Zealand
This excel file has multiple worksheets with numeric values and charts of sunshine hours, rainfall, monthly frost count and temperature for several South Island locations, including:
- Westport
- Nelson
- Blenheim
- Kaikoura
- Christchurch
Data sourced from NIWA (http://www.niwascience.co.nz/edu/resources/climate).
December 20, 2008new zealand climate stati...
Swales and ducks for a wetter future
Climate change predicts a wetter future with more extreme rainfall events for much of New Zealand.Trapping water in the landscape is a valuable technique for buffering rainfall to later irrigate downhill crops and trees.August 13, 2012
Visualising yearly rainfall distribution
This chart shows annual rainfall by month for the years 1990 - 2014 (and partial 2015). While there is a definite tenancy for rain to occur in June and July there is also obvious bumps in October, March and April. Wider areas of colour represent times of high rainfall while narrow regions are dryer.It becomes clear that rainfall can occur at any time throughout the year and that dry years follow periods high rainfall. With this in mind it makes a lot of sense to be approaching water catchment and management with a multi year view of charging up soil moisture during wet times to carry us through periods of below average rainfall.
Data obtained from NIWA Ferniherst datasetSeptember 20, 2015