Weather Eye with John Maunder

The Sun pays no heed to human committees' - this phrase with a minor change is given in a NASA release on "New Solar Cycle Prediction" on May 29, 2009.

Sunset from a cruise ship near Perth Photo: John Maunder

The Weekend Sun newspaper is published every Friday in Tauranga (New Zealand) and contains a range of local information including comments from several columnists.

During 2012, I provided a "Weather Eye" comment, which was generally published on the second and fourth Friday of each month. My column was also published on the website SunLive, which attracts over 200,000 weekly visitors.

From March 2013 my column is continuing and is now published exclusively on Sunlive.

A list of the first 32 WeatherEyes and the web site address in SunLive for each of them is available on the web site:

http://sites.google.com/site/theweatherclimateeye/

The first 32 WeatherEyes contain a wide range of topics on various aspects of the weather/climate scene including the following:

Tauranga Annual Rainfalls since 1898

Changing Spots on the Sun

New Zealand Climate Extremes: Tauranga has one of them

Climate Change and Villach - what is the connection?

Global Annual Temperatures: 1880-2012

Are we getting warmer or not? Global monthly temperatures 1996-2013

England -Winters of the last 200 years

Tauranga Annual Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2013

Sunspots and the Maunder Butterfly

Global monthly temperatures over the last 15 years: no warming or cooling

The weather dice and the butterfly

Tauranga August Rainfalls 1898-2013

Tauranga August Afternoon Temperatures 1913-2013

Dr John Maunder is a retired climate scientist now living in Tauranga. He was President of the Commission for Climatology of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) from 1989 to 1997. Over the last 60 years he has written four academic books and has been involved in the ‘weather busines' in various countries, including New Zealand, Australia, Canada, USA, Ireland, Switzerland, and the UK.

For further information, Google ‘Dr John Maunder' or email climate@ihug.co.nz