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NZ 7 Day: Incoming cold front, but warmer air next week

A cold front is moving into the South Island today and tonight and will cover the island by early Saturday dropping temperatures and bringing West Coast rain and a few showers elsewhere. This front will weaken further on Saturday as it ...

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NZ: Brief southern polar airflow coming, but the subtropics visit next week!

Low pressure is dropping southwards today, over the South Island leaving some heavy showers in its wake for the upper…

VIDEO: Low pressure for the NI today & tonight, A cold change on Fri PM/Sat AM for the SI

Low pressure is moving into the upper North Island today and tonight and will sink southwards overnight, clearing NZ later…

VIDEO: NZ’s weather pattern getting “messier”

Spring often brings chaos to the weather maps but often you can find patterns within that chaos – but over…

Messy weather pattern this week (+6 Maps)

The weather forecast for New Zealand this week will see lows and highs passing through but no air pressure system…

VIDEO: Spring weather returns next week, but driest and warmest in the east

Spring hasn’t finished with us yet despite the summer-like weather in a number of regions this week and coming weekend….

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 9:13pm on Fri 14 November 2025
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ClimateWatch: NOVEMBER’s outlook as high pressure lifts in NZ, low pressure grows in Oz.

In our monthly “ClimateWatch” forecast the first week of November in NZ looks settled and mostly dry, while Australia and…

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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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