We headed over to Queenstown for some fieldwork on the Remarkables ski field and in Wye creek. We also met with members of the NZ Ski operations team to see if we could make use of snow depth data that their grooming machines collect each night. We also went for a night ski at Coronet Peak which was...
Late July and early August 2020 have been characterised by unseasonably warm conditions across the South Island of New Zealand, driven in part by persistent northerly flow over originating in the Tasman Sea. This has triggered considerable mid-winter melt that has impacted ski areas throughout the S...
Where did the snow go?
05, MayThe ski season started late in Otago in 2019, which had many people asking whether a lack of snow at local ski areas was a sign of things to come. Todd Redpath provides a scientific perspective on seasonal snow in Otago in this video produced for Crux by
