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Archives for December 2019

Surreal thick smoke from Aussie turns South Island skies orange and dark (+Maps & Photos)

It’s normal for NZ to get some smoke from Australia when they have big bushfires, but the images coming out…

Wednesday’s national forecast

A northwesterly airflow lies over the country today, moving around a large anticyclone centered in the Tasman Sea. Meanwhile a…

Temperature Trends: Overnight Tuesday and daytime Wednesday

Mostly average overnight lows for the North Island tonight to see in the new year. Conditions are mostly clear and…

WeatherWatch launches new site: RuralWeather.co.nz

In 2019 WeatherWatch.co.nz launched a new website and it’s the biggest weather data dump in NZ history: www.RuralWeather.co.nz. The new website gives people…

RainWatch: Tuesday’s 24 hour rainfall

Conditions are very dry around all of New Zealand today. Not till overnight or towards dawn on Wednesday does some…

Tuesday’s national forecast

An anticyclone brings mainly settled weather to most of New Zealand today, a northwesterly airflow starts to build over the…

The Swiss Cheese Effect – How to read NZ’s Seasonal/Monthly forecasts and get more from them

We all know the generic forecast that often gets it wrong. “A dry weekend” says the weather – then you…

Temperature Trends: Overnight Monday and daytime Tuesday

Anticyclonic conditions tonight and areas of cloud cover bring mostly average overnight lows for most, just about the far south…

2019 ends dry, 2020 kicks off warmer but windier. Your NYE & NYD forecasts! (+4 Maps)

We’re at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020 and a new decade. We have the final forecast…

RainWatch: Monday’s 24 hour rainfall

Expect showers for the western North Island today as a front pushes through, mainly this morning about the southwestern corner…