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Thunderstorms, downpours & high pressure. NZ’s forecast to Jan 15, 2026.

Drier weather, hotter days and lighter winds are all coming – but between now and Sunday there will still be windy areas, wet weather, and severe thunderstorms. On Friday and Saturday a southerly flow will work northwards up the n...

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Heavy showers easing. Light Nor'West winds.
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NZ 8-Day Outlook: Severe weather to ease, high pressure soon to build

Many people are asking us when “summer weather” will return – and we have more traditional summer-like weather on the…

Tracking the windy & wet weather, then the next anticyclone

A depression west of the upper North Island is helping bring rain and strong winds to parts of New Zealand,…

NZ: Severe weather risks as large low sees 2025 out

Heavy rain and damaging wind gusts are expected to descend down the nation over the coming days bringing a wet…

Low pressure moving in for end of 2025

Low pressure looks to be driving New Zealand’s weather more as we enter the final 7 days of 2025. For…

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Santa Tracker 2025!

We’ve switched off the live Santa Tracker, displaying the final image at 11pm Christmas Eve. Comments posted after 11pm Christmas…

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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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