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Feb’s last week: High pressure, cold fronts and a tropical low

The weather this week smacks of late February with some settled, warm, dry days in the mix – along with some showery days, a couple of weak southern cold fronts – and potentially a colder change this weekend while a tropical...

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Cold fronts and high pressure – a fairly standard late February forecast

High pressure is increasing around New Zealand this weekend and next week – but it won’t always be centred over…

7 Day Weather: A few weak cold fronts, but a lot more high pressure

We’re not done with summer – if it does feel a little Autumnal at times now. We have a few…

Storm finally easing, a cold front Friday, then high pressure this weekend

One storm is unwinding, while another subtropical storm is powering up – but this will miss much of NZ, but…

Monday update: East coast storm continues, but a brighter forecast for many this weekend

Severe weather continues today in the southern half of the North Island and some eastern parts of the South Island,…

NZ: Sunday update as an east coast storm strengthens further

Stronger winds and heavy rain are in the forecast for Sunday PM and across Monday around eastern and central parts…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 6:58am on Tue 24 February 2026
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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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