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NZ VIDEO: Windy westerlies to surge back, chance of thunderstorms this week

High pressure covers much of the country today, but a windier burst of weather is coming back – with more polar air around the South Island in particular. It’s not a major week of weather – but there are severe weather...

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NZ VIDEO: Polar weekend, warmer westerly gales next week

Temperatures drop this weekend nationwide as a polar change heads northwards, with Sunday the coldest of the days – ahead…

VIDEO: More gales & downpours, sunny areas too

Another shot of polar air is coming for NZ, starting in the south on Friday and clearing the north by…

VIDEO: Milder ahead of wintry cold front, gales for Fri/Sat

Large parts of NZ will enjoy drier and more settled weather today and Thursday, ahead of windier nor-westers followed by…

VIDEO: Spring is doing its thing!

High pressure will briefly bring some settled weather to the country for Wednesday and Thursday but the next cold front…

ClimateWatch: How SEPTEMBER 2025 is shaping up as spring weather arrives

Spring weather is setting in across New Zealand and the southern half of Australia with windier weather in both nations…

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Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 9:28pm on Mon 8 September 2025
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WeatherWatchTV on YouTube climbs over 100K subscribers, joins global club of just 0.7%

WeatherWatchTV now has over 100,000 subscribers, larger than Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and far exceeding the NZ Government’s Niwa Weather…

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Top 10 NZ Weather MythBusters! (Even we were surprised at some of the answers!)

REPOST from our Education pages — Can you get sunburnt on a cloudy day? Do highs always bring sunny weather?…

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Ways to get fewer nasty surprises when it comes to wet weather that is (or isn’t!) forecast

REPOST from our Education Pages — It’s always interesting when we get a complaint about a rain forecast, just how…

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