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Subtropical low next week worth monitoring as high pressure controls all

High pressure smothers NZ today and will weaken a little on Sunday and Monday to allow a cooler southerly flow to head northwards, then expands back over the country again next week. However, also next week, a new low pressu...

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High pressure in charge, but also monitoring a tropical low next week

High pressure continues to dominate NZ’s weather as a tropical cyclone forms in the Coral Sea today. The cyclone, which…

Yes, NZ’s weather is warming back up again

Temperatures lift on Wednesday for many, then further going into Thursday and Friday as subtropical and/or nor’westers return. Cooler southerlies…

ClimateWatch: MARCH is looking quite orderly to start with

Storms near Antarctica, Autumn’s westerlies building south of Australia & NZ, high pressure again affecting both nations and the tropics…

Colder tonight for many, Lunar eclipse Tuesday, high pressure dominates

A lot of low pressure is spinning east of the country while a large high is moving in – this…

March Madness: Tropical Cyclone URMIL, a cold change and a ‘mountain range of high pressure’

March often brings in some wild changes in our weather – and we do have both a tropical cyclone north…

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Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 11:05pm on Fri 6 March 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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