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Monday night’s national forecast

A ridge lies over the country tonight bringing mainly settled weather, there may be an early shower clearing about the…

Weather Video: More dry weather for the North

A stream of high pressure systems continue to block the rain makers – despite the rain maps this coming weekend…

USA – Quakes rattle LA region

A magnitude-5.1 earthquake struck the Los Angeles area Friday night, jolting nearby communities and breaking water mains in some neighborhoods….

Mainly dry weather continues this week, watch for morning foggy areas

Yes this coming week is looking quite dry across the country, a ridge from an anticyclone in the Pacific Ocean…

Monday’s national forecast

An anticyclone centred east of New Zealand covers much of the country today, winds will generally be light for all…

Monday to bring plenty of high cloud

Tomorrow the weather is looking fairly settled, however a low in the Tasman Sea combined with a high centred east…

NEW POLL: How’s Autumn looking at your place?

With Autumn well and truly underway, we thought we’d address some of the correspondence we’ve been getting from readers recently…

Sunday’s national forecast

North Island Areas of high cloud and a few sunny spells after any early fog clears, winds will be light…

POLL RESULTS – A reluctant transition…

The results of our latest reader poll are in, and it seems a reasonably even split between those who are…

Weather Video: Dry weather continues…

A few showers this weekend will likely brush Southland and parts of the West Coast – but for most other…

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