I was thinking about going on a ski trip August 06. Have heard of a drought
now on the south island specifically. Looked through two pages of google
and got US predictions but nothing for rest of world.

Anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Mike wrote:
I was thinking about going on a ski trip August 06. Have heard of a drought
now on the south island specifically. Looked through two pages of google
and got US predictions but nothing for rest of world.

Anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

Aug. 6, 2006? I doubt if you'll find anything useful as far as
outlooks
for skiing that far ahead. If an El Nino or La Nina kick in by next
summer that could have an effect, but that is difficult to forecast
now. Usually by May or early June we would have a reasonable
indication of that for the upcoming summer. The Aussies might
have some climate outlook for next summer in that region, but
unless they've come up with something I have not heard of, I doubt
if it will tell you want you want to know.

"New Zealand weather forecast" in google will turn up some links
for short range forecasts.

Cheers,
Russell

Our weather here is fairly weird at the moment.

Very dry. Power cuts may be the outcome
as well as widespread drought.

However it could go the other way by winter next year.
There was ample snow for skiiing last winter round the
southern lakes.


"Mike" wrote in message
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I was thinking about going on a ski trip August 06. Have heard of a
drought
now on the south island specifically. Looked through two pages of google
and got US predictions but nothing for rest of world.

Anyone point me in the right direction? Thank you.

In case you're not confused, you can always pick up a newspaper -

Here's the first and last sentence of an article from the Press site:

"It's hot,dry and there's no relief on horizon...Though drier conditions
than normal were expected through the rest of December, normal rainfall was
likely over the entire three-month summer period..."