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Low pressure moving in for end of 2025

Low pressure looks to be driving New Zealand’s weather more as we enter the final 7 days of 2025. For Christmas Day and Boxing Day the nation lies between high pressure north of NZ and low pressure near the lower South I...

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Live Santa Tracker

Santa Tracker 2025!

We’ve switched off the live Santa Tracker, displaying the final image at 11pm Christmas Eve. Comments posted after 11pm Christmas…

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…

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….

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 8:28am on Sun 28 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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