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(VIDEO) NZ 7 Day: Variety in the weather, but Southern Ocean storms waking up

Low pressure moves in to NZ from the Tasman Sea this weekend and completely falls apart – bringing downpours and isolated thunderstorms as it does so, mostly for the upper North Island, western North Island and the upper South Isl...

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VIDEO: ClimateWatch: July is the month of BIG lows, BIG highs

This month around New Zealand, Australia and the region we see big highs and big lows – bringing decent stretches…

VIDEO: Severe weather risks for NZ as low moves in

Programming Note: Apologies but we have no video on Thursday – back again on Friday! – A storm in the…

VIDEO (NZ): Large low looms – who gets rain/wind & who does not

Another large low will bring severe weather to parts of both main islands of NZ this week, followed by a…

VIDEO: Another big low late week brings severe weather risks to NZ 

Severe weather is back in the forecast later this week after we kick off July with high pressure at the…

VIDEO: NZ 7 Day: One big low, a high, then another big low

Severe weather risks continue around NZ’s two main islands for the rest of Friday and going into Saturday, before conditions…

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Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 6:50pm on Fri 4 July 2025
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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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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…

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