WorldClimate.com defines normal climate for major towns

MFE NZ climate monitored

NCDC NOAA Climate & extreme weather
Daily obs data to recent month, climate changes & global weather / climate event history

ENSO info from PMEL NOAA is good stuff. More ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) stuff ... great site! ... and current.
The 1997/98 El Niño Event: Impacts, Responses and Outlook for New Zealand. A review prepared for the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology by Dr Reid Basher, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research.

The National Institute of Water & Atmospheric Research (NIWA) provide the latest climate summary.
Their news and press releases cover a range of subjects, eg climate, ozone, toxic algae and ocean floor.

The Naval Pacific Meteorology & Oceanography Center Yokosuka provide an interesting set of 12 annotated maps, one per month, showing features of the climate in Asia and Australasia

The U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is a great place to surf exciting pages related to weather, climate and ocean. NOAA PMEL has a huge, wide ranging earth sciences link list

Global precipitation climatology

Join the climateprediction.net experiment!

Newsletter of the Climate Variability in Agriculture R&D program (CVAP)

BOM Latest monthly climate charts include:
global anomaly
SH polar MSLP anomaly
global MSLP mean
SH polar MSLP mean

BOM Table of monthly SOI since 1876
Graph of recent SOI > +10 = La Nina & < -10 = El Nino
ENSO summary of climate forecasts & models

NASA SeaWIFS has various types satellite imagery of oceans.

Optimum Thermal Interpolation System (OTIS) for the latest SST anomaly

The Southampton Oceanography Centre in collaboration with colleagues from the Universities of East Anglia and Edinburgh
Ocean Circulation and Climate Advanced Modelling Project (OCCAM) - posters & papers
The Fine Resolution Antarctic Model (FRAM) Atlas of the Southern Ocean
The Research of the Meteorology Team concerns the surface fluxes of heat, water and momentum over the global ocean

The home page for the CSIRO Dept of Atmospheric Research looks interesting.

Antarctic Circumpolar Wave , diagram & another paper
Scripps ACW Research - forecast NZ precipitation

Current climate review & 3 month prognosis
NZ Met Service recent notable or severe weather, and climate facts
NOAA CPC global climate highlights & anomalies and the latest weekly climate highlights

Definitions of different types of climatology

Southland & South Otago Topoclimate South Project
HDL data loggers used
Otago's climate and soils are being mapped over the next three years in the growOTAGO project