About the site

The site is hosted at my house in Cashmere, Christchurch and I do my best to have it online 100% of the time. There are times however that it could be offline such as after applying patches, power loss, internet issues etc. If you like what I have done please let me know via the contact menu item.

During 2010 and 2011 Canterbury was hit by 3 major earthquakes

Canterbury is home to approx 560,000 residents and all have felt the violent shaking from the earthquakes. Over 422,000 claims have been made for buildings with the Earthquake Commission

Although you may think there was only 3 earthquakes there have infact been more than 13,000 registered earthquake events since September 4, 2010 (most have been small). The earth is settling down now and people are getting back to a normal routine although there is a long way to go until it is a thing of the past.

Visit Canterbury Quake Live for live and up to date information on the Canterbury Earthquakes.

Live Streaming Webcam

You can view the live streaming web cam about as fast as I can deliver it with my internet connection.

• View Live Stream

• Mouse Animation

Sun

Moon

Sky Conditions

• Sunshine Today

• Daylight Map

• Sky Clarity

• Cloud Animation

• Cloud Map

• UV

• Lightning Map

• Air Quality

• Air Quality Earth

Northern Lights forecast from Aurora Service Europe.

The forecast is generated hourly between 5am and 10pm every day

Clear/Fair. Temperature around 8.1°C, Wind Chill 5.2°C, Humidity 70%. Snow level 1,657 meters.

Partly Cloudy. Temperature around 7.5°C, Wind Chill 4.9°C, Humidity 73%. Snow level 1,523 meters.

Mostly Cloudy, Drizzle. Temperature around 7.4°C, Wind Chill 5.4°C, Humidity 73%. Snow level 1,325 meters.

Detailed Forcasts

• Hourly Forecasts

• Daily Forecasts

Wind

The weather station is located on the roof of my house, but the site is quite sheltered from the wind. As such the wind is not a good indicator (except for me) of the wind in Christchurch.

• Wind Speed

• Wind Map

Rain

Rain is detected by two sensors on the weather system. A rain tipping bucket and also an electronic rain sensor which is part of my cloud sensor. The rain tipping bucket records the actual rain amount in 0.2mm amounts while the electronic rain sensor is used to detect intensity and to detect rainfall earlier than the tipping bucket.

Rain Radar - The rain radar shows any rain over New Zealand. You can also animate the display over the previous 24 hours which shows how the rain is moving over the country.

• Intensity Map

• Daily Chart

• Monthly Chart

• Monthly Variation

• Cloud Sensor