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Subtropical storm moving in, gales and some heavy rain, especially Thu/Fri

Heavy rain and gale winds will slowly move down the country over the next 24 to 36 hours a subtropical storm powers up in the Tasman Sea. Heaviest rain looks to be in the upper North Island, the north-west South Island and the...

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Rain and wind. Strong and blustery Nor'East winds.
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Tropical storm to bring severe weather to NZ, gales & heavy rain

A tropical cyclone is today leaving the tropics and will grow into a larger storm system for a time in…

Tropical low to bring wind & rain this week

A low exiting the tropics near New Caledonia this week will grow larger in the Tasman Sea and finally bring…

High pressure grows, but a stormy end to next week possible

A settled weekend is on the way and apart from a few isolated showers in both main islands many regions…

A tropical low next week *might* affect NZ

It’s not locked in yet, but a tropical storm may end up drifting southwards towards NZ about one week from…

Australia: Will Tropical Cyclone Narelle track along half of Oz’s entire coastline?

Tropical Cyclone NARELLE has formed and is heading into northern parts of FNQ, the Katherine region of NT and then…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 11:28am on Thu 26 March 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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