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March Madness: Tropical Cyclone URMIL, a cold change and a ‘mountain range of high pressure’

March often brings in some wild changes in our weather – and we do have both a tropical cyclone north of NZ and a brief polar southerly moving up eastern NZ as we go into Sunday and early next week. But despite those big systems, ...

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Monday’s temperature drop, latest on tropical low, + more high pressure in early March

A cold front is today moving up the South Island, falling apart over the North Island going into Friday/Saturday. On…

High pressure, cold fronts & a potential offshore tropical storm

We still have summer weather left – but as end the month of February and kick off March we do…

Monitoring potential tropical storm + southerly change arrives Sunday

High pressure smothers New Zealand today but a cold front is coming on Thursday, and a colder/cooler southerly change for…

Feb’s last week: High pressure, cold fronts and a tropical low

The weather this week smacks of late February with some settled, warm, dry days in the mix – along with…

Cold fronts and high pressure – a fairly standard late February forecast

High pressure is increasing around New Zealand this weekend and next week – but it won’t always be centred over…

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Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 10:05am on Sat 28 February 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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