According to the NZ Herald, our weather forecasts in New Zealand are right less than half of the time! NIWA clocked up an unimpressive 48% hit rate on forecasts.
That explains why the last two weekends the weather hasn't matched the forecast at all! Bummer for those of us who actually need forecasts that are half accurate! Last Sunday, for example, up until the night before, the forecast was for sunny skies, and only on the Sunday morning did they revise the forecast to fog then sun. Turned out to be fog until lunchtime then low cloud (400ft base) all afternoon - by 3pm it was a sloping 800ft cloud base, still not enough for me to be comfortable about going flying..
I might as well just ignore the forecast and look out the window on the day!!
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