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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 – it will bring a drop in temperatures nationwide, a burst of windy weather, some rain/showers and isolated thunderstorms, and...

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Mostly cloudy. Fairly breezy West to Sou'West winds.
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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…

NZ: Spring gales, temp drops (& spikes) + Fiji has a tropical low to monitor

We have our first forecast for Christmas Eve & Day today, but this coming week looks spring-like as a colder…

Windy westerlies return next week + Vanuatu/Fiji tropical cyclone risk update

(No video Friday, next update is on Sunday) — NZ has a cooler/colder change coming in on Friday as a…

Southerly coming Friday, windy westerlies to return next week + Tropical cyclone update

A colder change is coming for southern NZ later on Thursday and into Friday, with a southerly flow going nationwide…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 7:05pm on Sat 20 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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