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Weekend low “one to monitor” as high pressure slips away for a time

We have a gap in the high pressure belt, starting Friday and possibly lingering until the start of next week. Long range maps have been picking a low with some severe weather potential for nearly two weeks now for mid-February, but it&#...

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Friday

High pressure likely to be replaced by low pressure this weekend

Many places are dry as we go into this week, although a few showers and afternoon downpours are possible. But…

NZ 8 day: High pressure, a couple of weak cold fronts, isolated downpours

High pressure is the main feature for NZ for the next week ahead, but there will be showers in both…

Meteors – Your Eyewitness Reports!

WeatherWatch.co.nz receives meteor reports from all over New Zealand and the globe, 24/7/365. **CASUAL COMMENTS**If you’ve seen something in the…

Waitangi Day (& long weekend) weather outlook

High pressure is the dominating force in our weather but due to the placement of various high pressure centres it…

Low pressure to cross central NZ, then a noticeable uptick in high pressure

Wet weather along with a windier, cooler, change is moving across NZ today and tonight, dropping the muggy humidity around…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 9:58am on Wed 11 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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