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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 over the coming days, weekend and early next week. Windy weather – mostly westerly driven – will ramp up ...

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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…

NZ VIDEO: Frosty high incoming, windy westerlies possible in a week

Powerful high pressure is moving in and over the South Island this weekend bringing more frosty nights and cold mornings…

NZ VIDEO: Powerful high pressure arrives, cold nights kick back in

Frosty conditions will affect both main islands going into the later part of this week and the upcoming weekend as…

Live / Real Time NZ Rain Radar

Live / Real time NZ rain radar for 6:34am on Thu 28 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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