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On today’s menu: warmth, strong winds, rain and eventually a temperature drop

Situation A cold front moves onto the lower South Island this afternoon with a strong northerly airflow ahead of it,…

Warm sunny weather in the east, rain picking up for South Westland

Situation A high pressure system continues to bring settled weather over most of the country today but it is starting…

Settled now, fronts end of the week with heavy rain + strong winds.

Situation A large high pressure system sits over the country today, mainly centred over the North Island but this will…

WeatherWatch videos on hold following injury

WeatherWatch head forecaster Philip Duncan will be unable to front weather videos for the rest of May following a home…

VIDEO: ClimateWatch: MAY-be it will, MAY-be it won’t. Here’s what “neutral” likely means for you

Covering New Zealand, Australia and the south-west Pacific we track the high and low air pressure over the weeks ahead,…

VIDEO: NZ: Incoming high, but is that another sub-tropical low too?

A cooler and drier weekend is on the way as high pressure moves in and lingers over the country through…

VIDEO: NZ – Storm continues to Friday, then eases as huge high pressure arrives

Hurricane force winds (120km/h+) in central NZ, squalls around Auckland, heavy rain across Canterbury up to Wairarapa and a cold…

VIDEO: Severe weather risks for Wed/Thu as low moves through, high pressure to follow

Heavy rain in the north-eastern South Island, and severe gales through central NZ and the top of the North Island…

VIDEO: Sub-tropical low to bring wind & rain before enormous high pressure zone

Pockets of heavy rain, isolated thunderstorms and gale force winds will be spreading around parts of NZ for today, Wednesday…

VIDEO: Low pressure sinks over NZ this week, before powerful weekend high

Low pressure is dropping down over the country this week bringing wind and sub-tropical rain into the South Island too,…

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