May 19 2013 - 7:00am
Sunday sees another changeable day with the sunniest regions set to be eastern areas of the North Island and also Fiordland.
May 19 2013 - 5:00am
Cloudy spells for the west of the North Island today, also including Bay Of Plenty with northwesterly breezes, a little brisk at times. Expect showers now and then and a few may be briefly heavy...
May 18 2013 - 6:07pm
Almost all of the North Island should stay in double digits overnight and it seems only Masterton could be the exception with 8 or 9 degrees possible.
For the South Island it's almost the complete...
May 18 2013 - 2:00pm
All seven of the people listed missing after a monster tornado on Wednesday have now been accounted for in Granbury, Texas, leaving the death toll at six, authorities said today.
May 18 2013 - 11:00am
It looks like we're at the beginning of a fairly damp cycle for parts of the country and with winter not officially with us yet is this a precursor to what we can expect over the next three months?-...
May 18 2013 - 7:00am
The wettest conditions this morning cover northern New Zealand and parts of eastern areas of the South Island. These will take time to clear but an improvement is expected throughout the day.
Most of...
May 18 2013 - 5:00am
Saturday sees an easing of a band of rain thatfell yesterday and overnight in many places to a few showers, although one or two could be heavy, but lengthy dry spells are part of today's menu.
The...
May 17 2013 - 5:12pm
Messy skies tonight as a front continues to moves eastwards over the country. Expect some rain for most although some will remain dry, mainly Southland and Central Otago. Showers also clear about the...
May 17 2013 - 4:19pm
The weekend is set to be dominated by a depression and gloomy skies could prevail in a few cases.
Head weather analyst Philip Duncan expands on it further...
May 17 2013 - 1:14pm
Snow has fallen in parts of Devon in what has been described as "fairly unusual" weather for May.
Winds of up to 100kph also struck the South West coast overnight with a number of trees...
May 17 2013 - 11:00am
Over the years New Zealand has had its fair share of severe weather events ranging from cyclones to blizzards but which storm or weather phenomenon do you think ranks number one?
It might be our most...
May 17 2013 - 7:00am
Today and the weekend is looking largely scrappy weather-wise as an incoming low brings plenty of cloud with bursts of rain or showers but also patchy drizzle and dry spells. Glimpses of sunshine are...
May 17 2013 - 5:00am
A front moves over the country today from the west bringing unsettled weather to most regions, the far south may remain untouched however being mainly dry with sunny spells too.
Northland, Auckland,...
May 16 2013 - 5:05pm
A northerly airflow gradually picks up for most of the country tonight as a front heads towards western areas from the Tasman Sea. Expect high cloud increasing out east and general cloud increasing...
May 16 2013 - 4:32pm
A tornado has caused "multiple fatalities" as it tore through two neighbuorhoods of a North Texas town, officials say.
The tornado hit the scenic Brazos River town of Granbury.
May 16 2013 - 2:00pm
Residents of coastal areas in Bangladesh and Myanmar are preparing for the arrival of a large storm that is rumbling toward them across the Bay of Bengal, with a U.N. agency warning that more than 8...
May 16 2013 - 11:00am
Earlier this year Mark Gee put together a fantastic video of the full moon rising across Wellington.
We felt it was worth sharing after a reader got in touch yesterday.
May 16 2013 - 9:00am
Just what is "unsettled" weather? Many people assume it means stormy or wet - but unsettled often just means "changeable".
We have a very large low moving in this Friday - and it...
May 16 2013 - 6:32am
Fog has blanketed parts of the country off and on this week and inside the last 24 hours it appears to have become more widespread.
Reports of fog came in last night from Wellington, Hamilton,...
May 16 2013 - 5:00am
Our slow moving anticyclone sits out to the east of the country with a ridge just holding grip on to the North Island, meanwhile a northerly airflow slowly builds over the South Island. The weather...