September 2020 Newsletter
Greetings from the Southern Hemisphere, Weather Report It is traditional in these newsletters to give a local weather report. In New Zealand we have just moved into spring. Daylight saving came into effect here last weekend. The winter has been very mild here but in the last two weeks we have had a couple of storms. These have been just a few days of rain and high winds but one of them has had a significant impact on our transport infrastructure. Auckland, where I live, is New Zealand’s largest city and lies on an isthmus. At the narrowest points, the distance between the west and east coast is less than three kms. The main North-South highway crosses the harbour on an eight-lane bridge which carries 170,000 vehicles a day. Two weeks ago during a storm, peak wind gusts of up to 127 km/h caused two trucks to be blown over... Read More