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Kōrero: Weather forecasting

A meteorologist at work

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A meteorologist at work

Aided by powerful computers, weather forecasters predict the sometimes rapid growth and decay of depressions, fronts, thunderstorms and other cloud bands.

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Metservice New Zealand

by Lindsay Keats

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Erick Brenstrum, Weather forecasting – Making forecasts, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/7588/a-meteorologist-at-work (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Erick Brenstrum, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 June 2016.