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Sunday’s national forecast – an almost quiet day
Those big afternoon downpours become far more isolated today with a mainly dry day across NZ thanks to a big…
Video: Severe Cyclone Owen aims for Queensland, while NZ has more thunderstorms
Cyclone Owen has reached ‘severe’ category 3 status and may reach 4 before making landfall in northern Australia and then…
Unusual Cyclone Owen now ‘severe’, flooding for Australia likely but storm unlikely to directly affect NZ (+6 Maps)
Cyclone Owen is now a Severe Category 3 Tropical Cyclone and Australian forecasters say it may peak at Category 4…
Video: More big downpours, but a lot of dry on the way too
New Zealand has afternoon downpours for the next few days, some quite heavy with thunderstorms. The main threat is inland…
Homer Simpson’s dream…New Zealand is covered by a huge high pressure donut
Mmmmm, donut. *Drool sound effect*. Not quite your usual weather story as we focus on your not so usual weather…
Weather Video: NZ is under a rare ‘high pressure donut’ – watch for downpours
New Zealand is currently being affected by a very rare set up – a large belt of high pressure with…
Cyclone Owen reforms, heavy rain coming for much of eastern Australia, likely weakens before NZ
Cyclone Owen has reformed and this time around may grow into a severe Category 3 storm before drifting back where…
Weather Video: Complicated set up means big dry areas + big downpours with thunder
The next week ahead is complicated weatherwise due to a large area of high pressure moving in but caught within…
Daily downpours, some with thunder, next four days ahead (+4 Maps)
New Zealand is facing days of afternoon downpours, mainly inland, and this will make for a wetter than average week…
Why NZers shouldn’t be surprised we have spring-like weather until Christmas
The days before Christmas are now appearing in the long range computer models and a theme is becoming clear: we…
