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NZ 8 Day: High pressure to return, also monitoring tropics next week

A cooler change is moving into NZ tonight and Saturday then winds ease further on Sunday as high pressure starts to replace the current low pressure zone over the country. High pressure, light winds (or westerlies) looks likel...

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Unsettled Thu/Fri, high pressure returns this weekend & next week

Wind and some wet weather is moving into both ends of NZ today and tomorrow bringing broken up rain bands…

Subtropical low, windy for some, then high pressure slowly returns

It’s cloudy and windy for parts of New Zealand today with the North Island especially gloomy under cloud associated with…

Temperatures to lift, before dropping again this weekend

Subtropical and north-west winds will help boost temperatures around NZ both by day and night followed a colder couple of…

Subtropical low vs subantarctic energy = typical early Autumn setup

A low pressure zone leaving Queensland tonight may brush the very top of the North Island midway through this week…

Subtropical low next week worth monitoring as high pressure controls all

High pressure smothers NZ today and will weaken a little on Sunday and Monday to allow a cooler southerly flow…

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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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