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Colder change moving in this weekend, frosts for some next week

Low pressure will cross over the South Island on Friday night bringing more heavy rain to western and northern parts of the island and some spillover into the east too. The North Island has showers and patchy rain developing tonight, bu...

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Rain developing during the afternoon. Fairly breezy West to Nor'West winds.
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Rain and showers, then colder and drier next week

Low pressure is moving into NZ and will bring heavy rain to the western side of the South Island and…

Rain and wind, then a temperature drop

Milder winds will affect the nation over the next day or two as a messy low pressure zone moves in…

Wind, rain and a colder change coming before next big high

High pressure is now moving off NZ to our east, replaced by cloudier weather and northerly quarter winds, with heavy…

NZ: High pressure slips away, wintry snap for some late week/Saturday

High pressure is still over New Zealand but it will slip away to the east this week allowing for West…

ClimateWatch: May outlook & El Niño discussion

Everyone is talking about El Niño so in this month’s update we discuss when it may be forming and what…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 2:43am on Sat 9 May 2026
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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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Why is NZ so windy? We explain the Roaring Forties!

From our Education page — New Zealanders shouldn’t be so surprised how often it’s windy here. After all, we’re basically…

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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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