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Special Weather Video: Christmas Day, next week + the map for New Year’s Eve
In our final video of 2018 we track the series of rain makers drifting past New Zealand from the north…
The forecast for Christmas Day remains ‘one to monitor’
While most of New Zealand looks set to have a dry Christmas Day a potential low/rainmaker in the north is…
VIDEO: Our first Christmas Day 2018 weather forecast
We have just a week until Christmas but a number of low pressure systems on the way between now and…
Rain Maps (x2): How much did all those thunderstorms dump last week? What more is coming?
New Zealand was affected by tens of thousands of thunderstorms last week and all of them delivered significant heavy downpours…
Hot start to the week but wet, colder, change coming for some (+3 temperature maps)
It’s hotter than normal for mid-December both today and Tuesday across much of New Zealand but some areas will get…
Weather Video: It’s the countdown to Christmas and NZ has two lows this week
Last week the theme was afternoon thunderstorms and downpours, this week it’s all about temperature fluctuations which are spring-like and…
WeatherWatch.co.nz receives stunning weather Photos in recent days (x12)
We’ve seen some big thunderstorms across New Zealand in recent days, in fact our lightning data indicates tens of thousands…
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…
