Your web browser (Internet Explorer) is out of date. Some things will not look right and things might not work properly. Please download an up-to-date and free browser from here.

Latest News

ClimateWatch: MARCH is looking quite orderly to start with

Storms near Antarctica, Autumn’s westerlies building south of Australia & NZ, high pressure again affecting both nations and the tropics has low pressure – those are the layers of weather over the coming weeks which, for...

Favourites

You have no favourites.
12°
Auckland
Generally clear and windy. Breezy to brisk South to Sou'West winds.
20°
Tomorrow
22°
Thursday

Colder tonight for many, Lunar eclipse Tuesday, high pressure dominates

A lot of low pressure is spinning east of the country while a large high is moving in – this…

March Madness: Tropical Cyclone URMIL, a cold change and a ‘mountain range of high pressure’

March often brings in some wild changes in our weather – and we do have both a tropical cyclone north…

Monday’s temperature drop, latest on tropical low, + more high pressure in early March

A cold front is today moving up the South Island, falling apart over the North Island going into Friday/Saturday. On…

High pressure, cold fronts & a potential offshore tropical storm

We still have summer weather left – but as end the month of February and kick off March we do…

Monitoring potential tropical storm + southerly change arrives Sunday

High pressure smothers New Zealand today but a cold front is coming on Thursday, and a colder/cooler southerly change for…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 10:05am on Tue 3 March 2026
Meteors
GeoNet

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…

Read article

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…

Read article

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?…

Read article