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Archives for February 2015

Fingers crossed for rain – Weather risks for Thursday

As we mentioned yesterday, a broad and weak area of low pressure lies over most of the country – which…

Thursday’s national forecast

Rain about the lower South Island eases to showers this morning, a few showers may creep into inland Canterbury /…

Changing it up – Situation & outlook for Thursday

A very broad and weak area of low pressure lies over most of the country, after spending the start of…

Weather Video: Sub tropics firing up

It’s that time of the year again – when the tropics start to fire up and send lows down our…

RainWatch: Are rain clouds brewing?

WeatherWatch.co.nz continues to monitor the potential for rain in New Zealand and we still see some chance for rain or…

USA – Heavy snow prompts state of emergency for much of the US

Heavy snowfall and glacial temperatures shut down much of the central and eastern United States– including the US government —…

East and west – Weather risks and the place to be on Wednesday

There are no risks about most of today really, as settled conditions will once again prevail – with easterly quarter winds…

Wednesday’s national forecast

Mainly settled about the country today, easterly quarter winds in the east and westerly quarter winds in the west for…

Same same but different- Wednesday’s situation & outlook

Those two anticyclones which dominated the calm, settled weather today are still centred either side of NZ. A ridge is…

NZer shortlisted for trip to Mars

An Auckland man could end up swapping his job at the Ministry of Social Development for a one-way ticket to…