Category: Southern Dispatches

Temperature inversion is a reversal of the normal distribution of temperature near the ground, in which a layer of colder air is overlain by a layer of warmer air. Whereas normally air temperature usually decreases as you go higher. There are four types: ground, turbulence, subsidence, and frontal, but in the case of large areas… Continue reading Winter Weather Temperature Inversions in southern New Zealand

Immersion in solitude, awareness of self, quietness of the spirit, and sometimes the odd challenge – all these and more are there in our mountain landscapes, just waiting to be seen, and better yet felt. Sometimes we’re so goal driven and yet whatever it was sometimes gets replaced: to get past stinging rain in the… Continue reading Mountain Landscapes of late