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Warm sunny weather in the east, rain picking up for South Westland
Situation A high pressure system continues to bring settled weather over most of the country today but it is starting…
Settled now, fronts end of the week with heavy rain + strong winds.
Situation A large high pressure system sits over the country today, mainly centred over the North Island but this will…
WeatherWatch videos on hold following injury
WeatherWatch head forecaster Philip Duncan will be unable to front weather videos for the rest of May following a home…
VIDEO: ClimateWatch: MAY-be it will, MAY-be it won’t. Here’s what “neutral” likely means for you
Covering New Zealand, Australia and the south-west Pacific we track the high and low air pressure over the weeks ahead,…
VIDEO: NZ: Incoming high, but is that another sub-tropical low too?
A cooler and drier weekend is on the way as high pressure moves in and lingers over the country through…
Education
Ways to get fewer nasty surprises when it comes to wet weather that is (or isn’t!) forecast
REPOST from our Education Pages — It’s always interesting when we get a complaint about a rain forecast, just how…
Comparing the world’s most well known cities with NZ’s latitude – some may surprise you! (+2 Maps)
From our Education Pages — It’s often said weather forecasters spend much of their lives looking up at the sky,…
NZ & Tasmania share more than just a similar weather pattern (+2 Maps)
From our Education archives — Tassie often gets first what NZ gets later. The Australian state shares not only similar…
