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Tropical low pressure may influence NZ’s weather from next week

Low pressure covers central and northern parts of NZ today with higher humidity and downpours and hit and miss thunderstorms, with cooler airflows coming in to the south and east over the coming weekend. The cooler airflow is due to hig...

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Showers easing early morning to a mostly dry and partly cloudy day. Winds turning more westerly.
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NZ: I know that it’s time, for a cool change…

To quote the Little River Band, it’s time for a Cool Change – with daytime temperatures dropping in a number…

Tropical lows expand this week, high pressure & showers in NZ for now…

High pressure looks to be pretty dominant in the NZ area this week, but we have plenty of showers, downpours…

Mid-upper 30s this weekend, cool down Monday, + tropical low to monitor next week

A burst of Australian and subtropical heat is coming to NZ, starting today and easing early Monday, brought in by…

Scorching weekend for some, widespread gales possible on Sunday

High pressure dominates NZ for the next week but on Sunday a storm just south of the country coupled with…

NZ: Hotter weather coming, chance of gales this weekend

In our first weather video of 2026 we update our forecast out to the middle of January. Heat will increase…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 2:50am on Fri 16 January 2026
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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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