[LCA2019 Chat] temperature in the conference

[Lisa Sands]

In other words Dress in layers! 

On 14 January 2019 1:06:39 PM NZDT, Ewen McNeill <lca2019 at ewen.mcneill.gen.nz> wrote:
>On 2019-01-14 12:50, Hugh Blemings wrote:
>> Looking at this data I must say the forecast for the week of the 
>> conference does look most pleasant indeed.
>
>I'd suggest not getting *too* attached to the forecast a week in 
>advance.... New Zealand forecasts tend to have a half life of a day or 
>two at most.  It might well be blue skies and mild climes next week, or
>
>it might be reasonably warm, or it might be rather chilly, or it might 
>be all of those things in one week -- or one day.
>
>One of the challenges of being relatively small islands, getting most
>of 
>our weather over the sea, is both that it can change more rapidly than 
>on large continents, and also there's less data collected from 
>surrounding areas (oceans!) making prediction even more difficult.
>
>In general I'll *mostly* trust a forecast in New Zealand for the actual
>
>day, and assume "we'll have some weather like that some of the time 
>soonish" for a forecast for the next few days.  But as it probably
>shows 
>my faith in weather forecasts for New Zealand a week in advance is...
>lower.
>
>I'd suggest packing clothes to suit a variety of weather in the 10C-30C
>
>(night/day) range, and keeping options close at hand :-)
>
>Ewen
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