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Mid-upper 30s this weekend, cool down Monday, + tropical low to monitor next week

A burst of Australian and subtropical heat is coming to NZ, starting today and easing early Monday, brought in by windy nor’westers which peak in strength on Sunday. For some eastern areas, such as inland parts of centra...

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Partly cloudy. Fairly breezy Sou'West winds.
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Scorching weekend for some, widespread gales possible on Sunday

High pressure dominates NZ for the next week but on Sunday a storm just south of the country coupled with…

NZ: Hotter weather coming, chance of gales this weekend

In our first weather video of 2026 we update our forecast out to the middle of January. Heat will increase…

NZ’s forecast to Jan 15, 2026.

(Recorded Dec 31) Drier weather, hotter days and lighter winds are all coming – but between now and Sunday there…

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,…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 2:05am on Sat 10 January 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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