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VIDEO: 10 Day Forecast as we track the windy spring weather

Low pressure is moving in bringing rain, showers and isolated heavy downpours to both main islands over the coming days, before winds turn cooler/colder on Sunday – ahead of windy westerlies next week. In true spring sty...

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Showers and long dry spells - an isolated downpour or thunderstorm possible. Breezy to brisk West to Nor'West winds.
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NZ VIDEO: Weekend low brings wet weather for some, windy westerlies kick in next week

A large low pressure zone will move across New Zealand on Friday and this weekend bringing area of rain, showers…

ClimateWatch: OCTOBER – heading into peak spring weather, windy westerlies dominate

NZ – Australia – South Pacific — A fairly text-book spring pattern continues in the Southern Hemisphere as a Sudden…

NZ VIDEO: Weekend low followed by windy westerlies next week

Low pressure is moving into New Zealand this weekend bringing some rain and showers, before exiting the country next week,…

NZ VIDEO: Southern snow, weekend low pressure nationwide – windy westerlies next week

Low pressure exiting Australia will move into New Zealand this weekend bringing rain and showers into both main islands. Before…

NZ VIDEO: Spring changes plus we explain the Sudden Stratospheric Warming (SSW)

Cold fronts, subtropical winds, Australian airflows, polar air, highs and lows – that shapes up NZ’s next 7 days as…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 1:43pm on Fri 3 October 2025
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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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Ways to get fewer nasty surprises when it comes to wet weather that is (or isn’t!) forecast

REPOST from our Education Pages — It’s always interesting when we get a complaint about a rain forecast, just how…

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