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What the picker changes
  • Top topics digest — the cards score the selected period against the prior 4 weeks.
  • 12-week heatmap & outlet matrix — show the 12 weeks ending at the selected week (they slide back with the picker, they aren’t a fixed snapshot).
  • Per-topic volume / alias drift — same 12-week trailing window, anchored on the selected period.
  • Coverage gap quadrant — scores the selected period against the 12 weeks before it (not including it).
  • Anomaly cards — only show alerts the detector fired during the selected period. Quiet weeks legitimately show none.
What stays as-is
  • Outlet orientation strip / lean colours — context-only, drawn from the last 12 weeks of activity regardless.
  • Co-occurrence graph — recent-activity anchored, not picker-driven.
  • Source & topic profiles — all-time data for the topic; the picker doesn’t affect them.
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Press topic

Avalanche Risk On Tracks

2 articles · 2 aliases in press · peaked week of 17 May 2026 · first seen 11 May 2026

The start of the Great Walk season in New Zealand's South Island has been delayed due to severe weather, snowfall, avalanches, and track damage, affecting key trails like the Routeburn, Milford, and Kepler Tracks.

Coverage by outlet lean Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by editorial lean. Stuff and The Spinoff lean centre-left, NZ Herald centre-right, others centre.

Alias drift

How press outlets have named this topic, week by week.

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Recent headlines

Most recent 2 articles linking to this topic.

Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across outlets. Each framing is the LLM's one-line characterisation of the article's editorial angle — not a quote.

rnz Centre

snowfall triggers avalanche dangers

Great walk season delayed as tracks damaged by bad weather
1 Nov
nzherald Centre-right

safety issues led to 2024 cancellation

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19 May
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