Next 24 Hours in Whangarei
Next 9 Days in Whangarei
Sat 30 Mar
Sat 30 Mar
22°
Day
11°
Night
Mainly sunny. Fairly breezy South to Sou'West winds.
SSW
24km/h
0%
chance
of rain
trace
Mainly sunny. Fairly breezy South to Sou'West winds.
Sun 31 Mar
Sun 31 Mar
22°
Day
12°
Night
Mostly cloudy. Light West to Sou'West winds.
WSW
12km/h
10%
chance
of rain
trace
Mostly cloudy. Light West to Sou'West winds.
Mon 1 Apr
Mon 1 Apr
22°
Day
12°
Night
Mostly cloudy. Light Sou'West winds.
SW
9km/h
20%
chance
of rain
trace
Mostly cloudy. Light Sou'West winds.
Tue 2 Apr
Tue 2 Apr
23°
Day
13°
Night
Partly cloudy. Light North to Nor'West winds.
NNW
11km/h
10%
chance
of rain
trace
Partly cloudy. Light North to Nor'West winds.
Wed 3 Apr
Wed 3 Apr
24°
Day
13°
Night
Partly cloudy. Breezy West to Nor'West winds.
WNW
14km/h
10%
chance
of rain
trace
Partly cloudy. Breezy West to Nor'West winds.
Thu 4 Apr
Thu 4 Apr
22°
Day
13°
Night
Scattered showers. Breezy Westerly winds.
W
16km/h
30%
chance
of rain
1.2mm
Scattered showers. Breezy Westerly winds.
Fri 5 Apr
Fri 5 Apr
21°
Day
14°
Night
Showers. Fairly breezy South to Sou'West winds.
SSW
20km/h
40%
chance
of rain
1.9mm
Showers. Fairly breezy South to Sou'West winds.
Sat 6 Apr
Sat 6 Apr
21°
Day
13°
Night
Partly cloudy. Fairly breezy Easterly winds.
E
22km/h
20%
chance
of rain
trace
Partly cloudy. Fairly breezy Easterly winds.
Sun 7 Apr
Sun 7 Apr
21°
Day
14°
Night
Partly cloudy. Fairly breezy North to Nor'East winds.
NNE
21km/h
20%
chance
of rain
1.1mm
Partly cloudy. Fairly breezy North to Nor'East winds.
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Thorsten Stanley on 29/03/2024 2:43am
I live in wonderful Wellington. Apart from forecasting partly cloudy again when there’s virtually no clouds in the sky why do you forecasters always put up the windy logo suggesting its foul weather when the sun is shining and in a spot sheltered from the wind, of which there are many, it’s a glorious day? I’ve just been for a swim and am now sunbathing 🙄. Get rid of the windy logo unless it’s foul weather please! Clothes drying really fast 👍👍
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WW Forecast Team on 29/03/2024 8:40am
Hi Thornsten – Thanks for the message. The wind logo automatically kicks in when winds reach a certain speed – usually 40km/h and over. It has nothing to do with sky conditions or storms – it just means it’s consistently windy, especially in exposed areas. For as many people who don’t want to know about it there are another group who like to know. 🙂 We provide more data to work out the sky conditions than Niwa and MetService combined – please download our new app, that way you won’t be disappointed as it shows cloud cover and gust levels all in graph form. Appreciate your message and issue with the icon – it’s hard to sum up an entire day’s weather in one image and cover all bases and please all people – which is why we are the only forecaster in NZ to provide so much additional weather data to make sense of it all.
Kind regards,
WW
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josh on 27/03/2024 10:20pm
lots of cute adorable little showers on the auckland rain radar. is low pressure causing them?
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Brian on 25/03/2024 9:17pm
There is heavy rain outside and your website indicates 8% chance of trace amounts.
Statistically, many mm of heavy rain is still possible, but that’s quite misleading…
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WW Forecast Team on 25/03/2024 9:44pm
Hi Brian – it’s still indicating a chance of rain (even 1% chance of rain doesn’t mean it’s light or heavy it just means showers are in the area). When you see 8% with trace amounts it means hit and miss showers. If we told you 5mm and the shower juuuust missed you, you’d be annoyed about that too. You should be more frustrated that MetService holds the keys to massively improving ALL weather forecast data in NZ, but they choose not to in order to keep radar data to themselves … this process cuts everyone out of having it (including themselves as MetService has no computer to power that data back into their own public forecasts!) and this reduces the “on the day” accuracy for everyone across NZ. Globally Government forecasters don’t hold back rain radar data for their own commercial gains. There is a second Government review in place right now about this very thing.
You’re also demanding perfection when the tech isn’t there yet. Our rain data is the most accurate in NZ (independently proven 3 times now) but it’s not perfect. Just like flying to England still takes a day to get there, even if you want to fly there in 1 hour. The tech isn’t there yet. You have to be patient and work with what we’ve got in 2024.
This article explains why most people don’t check all the variables when it comes to rain… if it matters that much to you (which it seems to) then here are the steps to get fewer nasty surprises: https://www.weatherwatch.co.nz/content/education-the-most-accurate-ways-to-read-a-rain-forecast-get-fewer-false-alarms
– Cheers
Phil D
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PhillipDuncanFan on 25/03/2024 10:16am
Hi Phillip and team,
Awesome work. Watching every videos. Enjoy a lot.
My question is, I need to paint my house. As per your modelling it was supposed to be dry today 25/03 and 26/03 here in West Auckland(Henderson). But guess what it rained in the morning and my two days off ruined.
Could you please tell me next possible dry and sunny day for my project?
Thanks
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WW Forecast Team on 25/03/2024 6:51pm
Hi there, thanks very much for the kind support. At this time of year we can often get wet weather even with a low 10% chance of rain (once the nights become longer than the days then small isolated showers off the Tasman Sea can still affect Auckland. One of the reasons we’re so frustrated with MetService and the Government for so many years is that NZers must collectively tax fund rain radar, but unlike the roads we tax fund and then can drive on, we cannot use rain radar data in our forecasts … but in Aussie our data feed ingests radar data (as they have open data) and it means it’s automatically ingested into the daily forecast and makes for higher accuracy (so that 10% chance might jump to 60%). We’re working with MetService to achieve this but it’s hugely costly for us the way it’s done in NZ. In the meantime, to more directly answer your question, most days this week have a shower chance. Check the rain graphs in our new Alerting App (or at RuralWeather.co.nz as the site remains freely open for now). You can see a shower spike most days. Next week, however, looks better. There should be plenty of long dry spells in the 10 days ahead too, but if you’re paining it can be trickier.
Good luck – use our hourly data + rain radar and you shouldn’t get so many nasty surprises.
– WW
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James on 21/03/2024 9:35am
Hi guys,
We have cricket on Saturday in auckland, the forecast seems to have changed from a fairly dry to to now whats looking like a wet one. What are you thoughts is there a game possible from 11-6pm?
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WW Forecast Team on 21/03/2024 6:39pm
Hi James, there’s a very weak low moving in and falling apart. It’s minimal rain but keep an eye on the rain graphs in our new App or at RuralWeather as they update hourly. These borderline systems can be tricky to forecast with high accuracy but it does look quite likely to be wet for a time on Saturday with dry spells in the mix. Our latest video today will cover this in a bit more detail too.
– WW
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