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VIDEO: Milder ahead of wintry cold front, gales for Fri/Sat

Large parts of NZ will enjoy drier and more settled weather today and Thursday, ahead of windier nor-westers followed by a cold front on Friday (South Island) and Saturday (North Island). By Sunday polar air covers the country...

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Mainly clear. Light Nor'West winds.
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VIDEO: Spring is doing its thing!

High pressure will briefly bring some settled weather to the country for Wednesday and Thursday but the next cold front…

ClimateWatch: How SEPTEMBER 2025 is shaping up as spring weather arrives

Spring weather is setting in across New Zealand and the southern half of Australia with windier weather in both nations…

NZ VIDEO: Westerlies blast NZ off and on

High pressure is mostly north of the country at the moment, bringing windy westerlies over the nation and they will…

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…

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…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 6:43am on Thu 4 September 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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