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VIDEO: NZ’s severe weather risks as gales, thunder and polar air move in

Surges of severe weather will push across NZ over the coming days with damaging winds, squally heavy showers (some with hail and thunder off the Tasman Sea) and two pulses of cold polar air. The first cold change comes in tod...

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NZ VIDEO: Gales, isolated thunderstorms, some snow & sunshine too!

Windy weather is about to be New Zealand’s main weather feature over the weekend and next week. Damaging gales are…

NZ VIDEO: Severe weather risks over the days ahead

Damaging gales, rain/showers, some snow and a couple bursts of polar air are all on the way for New Zealand…

NZ VIDEO: Westerly gales, polar air – but a touch of spring

Temperatures will continue to rise in most places over the next couple of days ahead of two polar changes coming…

VIDEO: NZ’s last days of August turn windy westerly

High pressure covers most of NZ to kick off August’s last week, but a huge area of low pressure by…

NZ 7 Day: Huge high, followed by even larger low

Powerful high pressure is crossing the South Island today and tomorrow then will lie east of the country going into…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 6:20am on Sat 30 August 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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