Sea surface temperatures in the tropical Pacific have gone from warmer (🔴) to colder than average (🔵) over the past 5 months. Signs, from the ocean, of an emerging La Niña. How might this affect NZ in the longer term? Our updated seasonal climate outlook comes next week.

Read the latest news article about our #BountyTrough expedition, in collaboration with NIWA and Te Papa 👇 co.pulse.ly/mhtnskcr2y Thank you RNZ for the feature.

NIWA scientists have found that since 2006, strong, full-depth ocean warming has occurred south of the Chatham Islands at around 5x the global rate because of the ocean currents moving 120km west.🌊 More here➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/unprecede… 📸NIWA's Dr Phil Sutton with an Argo float

Here's a video explainer on the sudden stratospheric warming event that is occurring over Antarctica & starting to affect weather patterns in the Southern Hemisphere. NIWA

August-October climate outlook 🌱 📈 Despite an early August cold snap, seasonal temperatures aren't expected to be colder than average 💧 Normal or above normal rain favoured: after a dry start to August, late August/September looks quite unsettled niwa.co.nz/climate-and-we…

The ISME ECSC is spotlighting Antonia Cristi (Antonia Cristi), a NIWA Staff Scientist, and her paper “Environmental driving forces and phytoplankton diversity across the Ross Sea region during a summer-autumn transition.” aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10… (1/2)

Announcing NIWA’s latest supercomputer with 3 times the capacity of the existing supercomputer. Very impressive.

Science Minister Hon Judith Collins KC has announced NIWA’s purchase of a new $20 million supercomputer. 🖥️ The next generation supercomputer will have 2.5 to 3 times more generational power than its predecessor. Read more here ➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/supercomp… 📸 Stuart Mackay

Commercial-scale production of kingfish is now a reality in New Zealand. 🐟 The kingfish are grown at NIWA's state-of-the-art land-based farm, which was officially opened today by Whangārei MP Hon Dr Shane Reti. Read more here ➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/kingfish-… 📸 Stuart Mackay

Nothing beats Wellington with on a good day…and she’s put on a beautiful day to launch NIWA s new 500T research vessel #Kaharoa2 🚢 ☀️ 🌊 On the way here, she deployed 120+ ARGO floats OceanOPS Thrilled to share this moment with some legendary colleagues!

NIWA’s brand-new research vessel, Kaharoa II, was officially christened by Minister Judith Collins yesterday. 🍾 The vessel arrived in Wellington after spending 83 days sailing from northern Spain, where it was built. Full story here ➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/cutting-e…

Everyone, meet Colin. Colin is the holotype of a new species of long-nosed chimaera 👻🦈- the Australiasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish #sharkscience doi.org/10.1007/s10641…

You might spot our new research vessel Kaharoa II working in the Hauraki Gulf over the next three weeks.🚢 Researchers will be using underwater cameras to collect baseline data on what habitats and species are present in the area. More here ➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/new-vesse… 📸 Armon

Spring climate outlook! 🌞 🌬️ Unsettled start: strong winds, temperature swings & thunderstorms ↘️ Leaning wetter in the west & warmer, drier in the east: more northwesterly winds overall 🌤️ La Niña-like influence may bring more high pressure Oct-Nov niwa.co.nz/climate-and-we…

Excited to announce that the third chapter of my PhD thesis has been published 🥳 Paul Franklin Dr Eleanor Gee NIWA The University of Waikato 🎓

The polls have opened for the 2024 NIWA staff photography competition People’s Choice Award and we need your help to pick the winner. 🏆 Check out the entries & vote for your favourite photo here 👉 wishpond.com/lp/2800013/ 📅 Voting closes Friday 6 September, 11:59pm.

Check out this animation of rolling maximum sustained winds over the next 10 days 🌬️ Can you tell where the roaring forties & furious fifties are? The current climate drivers are enhancing them 💨 New Zealand will continue to feel their roar & fury at times through mid-month!

Winter 2024 is in the books: it was New Zealand's 3rd-warmest winter on record, being 1˚C warmer than average 📈 This owed to more high pressure, northeast winds & the long-term climate change tailwind. NZ's warmest & 2nd-warmest winters on record are 2022 & 2021, respectively.

The colossal squid has the biggest beak of any living cephalopod. This one in the collections at NIWA is one of the biggest I've ever seen, but was taken from the stomach of a toothfish! Many mysteries left to uncover in the deep sea... #TeamColossal #BestSquid #Squidtember

A new NIWA-led study has found that climate change increased the amount of total rainfall during Cyclone Gabrielle by 10%. 📈 Read the full story here ➡️ niwa.co.nz/news/cyclone-g… 📸 Rebekah Parsons-King