[youtube]ClRSr2-EisE[/youtube] Briefing on expected severe weather in New Zealand.The description of a massive storm heading towards New Zealand by various media, is too emotive says MetService Chief Forecaster Peter Kreft.
“MetService has expressed to various media outlets our disappointment at the selective quotations taken from a MetService media release,” Mr Kreft said in a subsequent Youtube video briefing.
Mr Kreft was concerned with the use of “emotive language” in the description of the expected weather in New Zealand over the next few days. “The expression ’massive storm heading for New Zealand' certainly did not come from MetService,” he said.
Mr Kreft said MetService was “inundated” with calls from concerned members of the public, business people, and the media asking for information about the storm and its impact on New Zealand and themselves.
For the next few days, the weather over New Zealand is expected to be severe in some places, at some times, but not everywhere, Mr Kreft wrote in a MetService blog post.
There is a low over the eastern Tasman Sea, and it’s moving quickly southeastwards. But this low is neither massive nor particularly deep. Over the last few months, many like this one have crossed New Zealand from the Tasman Sea, he said.
“MetService has expressed to various media outlets our disappointment at the selective quotations taken from a MetService media release,” Mr Kreft said in a subsequent Youtube video briefing.
Mr Kreft was concerned with the use of “emotive language” in the description of the expected weather in New Zealand over the next few days. “The expression ’massive storm heading for New Zealand' certainly did not come from MetService,” he said.
Mr Kreft said MetService was “inundated” with calls from concerned members of the public, business people, and the media asking for information about the storm and its impact on New Zealand and themselves.
For the next few days, the weather over New Zealand is expected to be severe in some places, at some times, but not everywhere, Mr Kreft wrote in a MetService blog post.
There is a low over the eastern Tasman Sea, and it’s moving quickly southeastwards. But this low is neither massive nor particularly deep. Over the last few months, many like this one have crossed New Zealand from the Tasman Sea, he said.
