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Rain/Wind to ease, frosts and colder, drier, weather moving in

Low pressure will continue to drift eastwards away from the North Island over the next 24 hours, with wind and rain continuing today, especially around central NZ/lower North Island, then easing going into tonight and tomorrow. ...

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Heavy rain, gales, thunderstorms for some – but high pressure is tracking back this week

This week kicks off with a large low bringing instability and changeable forecasts, but as the low drifts over the…

Large low = chopping & changing forecasts next several days

Expect weather forecasts to shift around a bit over the weekend and across next week in some regions as a…

Large low lingers for weekend & next week

Large lows don’t always equal severe weather – but a low pressue zone larger than New Zealand looks to hang…

Unsettled weekend, but not raining for all, as large low forms

Windy westerlies are the main feature of weather for the next day or two, before a low pressure system grows…

Autumn westerlies kick in, large weekend low coming

This week we switch gears, shifting into a more classic Autumn weather pattern with cold fronts, windy westerlies and nor’westers,…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 1:50pm on Tue 21 April 2026
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ClimateWatch: NOVEMBER’s outlook as high pressure lifts in NZ, low pressure grows in Oz.

In our monthly “ClimateWatch” forecast the first week of November in NZ looks settled and mostly dry, while Australia and…

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WeatherWatchTV on YouTube climbs over 100K subscribers, joins global club of just 0.7%

WeatherWatchTV now has over 100,000 subscribers, larger than Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology and far exceeding the NZ Government’s Niwa Weather…

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Top 10 NZ Weather MythBusters! (Even we were surprised at some of the answers!)

REPOST from our Education pages — Can you get sunburnt on a cloudy day? Do highs always bring sunny weather?…

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