About these numbers
The words in the brief are written by an AI model from the cited records. Numbers come from the records, not the model. You make the call.
Every figure links to the record it came from. See Sources for when each feed was last checked.
- Environment Canterbury
River flow, restriction, rain and groundwater data from Environment Canterbury, licensed CC BY 4.0. Provisional data, subject to change.
- MetService
Severe weather warnings from MetService, via the public CAP feed.
- Open-MeteoNon-commercial
Weather data by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Free API, non-commercial use only. A paid plan is needed before this goes public.
- Transpower
South Island hydro storage from Transpower's Market Operations Weekly Report. Indicative; link and attribute only.
- NOAA
ENSO status from the NOAA Climate Prediction Center. Public domain.
- OpenStreetMap
Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- LINZ
Elevation (Canterbury LiDAR 1 m DEM and NZ 8 m DEM), lake polygons and river lines (Topo50), and on the published site LINZ Basemaps aerial imagery and elevation. All CC BY 4.0.
- Terrain Tiles on AWS
Open elevation tiles for the map's hill shading and 3D terrain when no LINZ Basemaps key is set. Includes LINZ data.
- Wikipedia
Positions of Benmore, Aviemore and Waitaki dams, from the Wikipedia article for each dam (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Earth Sciences New Zealand
For the seasonal climate outlook, read Earth Sciences New Zealand directly. We link to it and don't republish it.