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Weather for Christmas & NYE: The good, the bad and the ugly…

Low pressure, windy weather, hot and cold – it’s all in the mix over the coming days, bringing both hot and dry weather for some on Christmas Day, colder, wetter and cloudier for others. A similar weather pattern r...

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Large dry areas with some patchy rain or showers, likely easing and clearing during the afternoon. Breezy to brisk Westerlies. Low rainfall.
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Santa Tracker 2025

Track Santa’s progress this Christmas Eve with the 2025 WeatherWatch Santa Tracker! We expect Santa to show up some time…

Latest Christmas forecast + New Year’s Eve outlook

We have an extended forecast covering the rest of 2025 as a cold change looks set to kick in from…

Wintry change for some, windy and warm for others

A cold snap is moving up NZ today and Saturday, before easing Sunday and clearing most places on Monday –…

Another cold blast this weekend + Christmas Day weather

As we’ve been saying for several weeks now, we have a spring-like pattern going through December, but with summer-like temperatures….

Spring-like until Christmas (NZ’s 11 Day forecast!)

Severe gales, heavy West Coast rain, and temperature fluctuations are on the way as spring weather returns following a much…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 3:35am on Wed 24 December 2025
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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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