25/10/2023 11:00pm
A wintry blast in the south and the leftovers of a tropical cyclone in the north will both independently produce severe weather risks for New Zealand. The wintry blast arrives tonight and peaks on Friday morning over the South Island bringing low level snow flurries, heavy West Coast rain and gales to some places.
This weekend it eases but then there is a significant frost risk for sheltered inland areas. On Sunday a new and fairly large low pressure zone will move into the upper North Island fuelled by the leftovers of Cyclone Lola.
The low itself isn’t too stormy but as it interacts with high pressure (bringing that frost risk further south) it will create a windy Squash Zone which can produce strong to damaging nor’easters with a period of heavy rain too. It’s not totally locked in but we give more clarity today on how this may shape up in the days ahead.
*We have your forecast to next Wednesday – and our special Australia-only 7 day forecast is out today too.
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Jeffdog on 26/10/2023 10:10pm
I can’t believe millsy actually made WW team apologise for the bad weather and tried to make a complaint to the team about the bad weather. That’s just outrageous in my opinion 😂
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millsy on 26/10/2023 6:57am
Any idea when its going to improve. Feels like we have had nothing but bad weather all week. Over it.
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WW Forecast Team on 26/10/2023 10:07am
We’re in peak spring at the moment – it may be a few more weeks yet sorry.
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millsy on 26/10/2023 9:30pm
I don’t think that is really fair…
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WW Forecast Team on 26/10/2023 9:52pm
Totally understand. But you’ll need to send your formal complaints to Mother Nature, as we’re not the manufacturer. 🙂
– WW
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