2013 New Zealand winter storm [20 June] it moved across Cook Strait to create a new low just east of Kaikoura... that was the real kick in pants that caused a clockwise circle of wind." -Associate Professor James Renwick at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Sciences at Victoria University has researched how polar conditions affect our weather. "To get an event like this, which is pretty extreme, we need the westerly wind that normally blows across New Zealand and the southern oceans to slow down and to buckle into a series of big meanders, north-south waves around the hemisphere." The air was so
HMS New Zealand (1904) became the 2nd Division, Home Fleet, and "New Zealand" became a Home Fleet unit in that division. To release her name for use by the new battlecruiser HMS "New Zealand", which had been presented to the Royal Navy by the government of New Zealand, it became necessary to rename "New Zealand" in 1911. At first the name "Caledonia", the Roman name for northern Great Britain, was favoured, but this met opposition in New Zealand. Eventually, the name "Zealandia", a personification of New Zealand, was agreed upon, and "New Zealand" was renamed "Zealandia" on 1 December 1911. Under a fleet reorganisation