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Cyclone Winston back to Severe Cat 4 – and may reach Category 5
Severe Cyclone Winston continues to churn north of New Zealand near Tonga and Fiji and today has been upgraded from…
Pakistan: Children starving; crops dying – El Niño blamed
Pakistan’s Tharparkar district is entering its third straight year of drought, with nearly 200 deaths since January, many of them…
Rain and wind – #WeatherRisks and your Main Centre outlook on Thursday
The two risks around New Zealand on Thursday are once again our old friends – wind and rain. Wind Northwesterlies…
Thursday’s national forecast
A strong northwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand today, a front over the North Island moves off to the east…
Thursday’s Big Picture: Rain for almost everyone at some point
A strong northwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand, while a front over the North Island moves off to the east…
Rain and showers spread across NZ (+3 Maps)
A deep low in the Southern Ocean/South Tasman Sea area is today pulling down tropical air over the country and…
Rain, sun and a cyclone – Wednesday’s Weather Video
Rain, heavy at times will affect the western side of both islands over the next couple of days but should…
Winston a Severe Cat 3 cyclone once again, NZ still monitoring (+5 Maps)
Tropical Cyclone Winston has moved so far back north it has returned to a Category 3 cyclone, making it severe…
Australia: Fire, flood, and…snow? Tasmania’s crazy summer
Fires, flood and now snow: Tasmania has had a summer of weather extremes. After weeks of warm and dry weather,…
Here comes the rain! (+4 rain maps)
Rain and showers are today starting to move into a number of regions, with social media lighting up as farmers…
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Meteors – Your Eyewitness Reports!
WeatherWatch.co.nz receives meteor reports from all over New Zealand and the globe, 24/7/365. **CASUAL COMMENTS**If you’ve seen something in the…
Latest: Gabrielle approaches NZ (+25 Maps)
The effects of Cyclone Gabrielle will be felt across much of the North Island today, especially later in the day,…
Cyclone Gabrielle strengthening as it slowly passes Great Barrier Island (20+ maps)
12:15am Tuesday NZDT — Cyclone Gabrielle’s movement has slowed to an absolute crawl near Great Barrier Island. The longer the…
