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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 and more temperature fluctuations between mild/warm days and colder ones. High pressure increases over Au...

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NZ VIDEO: Westerlies blast NZ off and on

High pressure is mostly north of the country at the moment, bringing windy westerlies over the nation and they will…

VIDEO: NZ’s severe weather risks as gales, thunder and polar air move in

Surges of severe weather will push across NZ over the coming days with damaging winds, squally heavy showers (some with…

NZ VIDEO: Gales, isolated thunderstorms, some snow & sunshine too!

Windy weather is about to be New Zealand’s main weather feature over the weekend and next week. Damaging gales are…

NZ VIDEO: Severe weather risks over the days ahead

Damaging gales, rain/showers, some snow and a couple bursts of polar air are all on the way for New Zealand…

NZ VIDEO: Westerly gales, polar air – but a touch of spring

Temperatures will continue to rise in most places over the next couple of days ahead of two polar changes coming…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 11:50am on Tue 2 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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