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Archives for May 2013

Video: Lightning strikes over Auckland

Great quality video of Auckland’s passing thunderstorms today – some fantastic lightning strikes are also caught on camera.

Raw Video: Waterspouts over Auckland

Video of Tuesday afternoon’s waterspouts over Manukau Harbour in Auckland.

Tuesday night’s national forecast

Conditions ease tonight for the North Island in the most populated areas but there could still be a few heavy…

Photos(2): Two Waterspouts spotted in Manukau Harbour

Updated – new photo added — Two waterspouts have been spotted in Manukau Harbour this afternoon.  Around lunchtime WeatherWatch.co.nz warned…

US: Monster tornado – death toll 51, expected to rise

A monstrous tornado up to 1.6 kilometres wide has roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs, killing 10, flattening entire neighbourhoods,…

VIDEO – Stunning NZ timelapse

Perhaps they got it wrong when they called Australia the lucky country because this video shows how fortunate we are…

Latest weather headlines

Tornadoes continued to touchdown in the US from Texas to the Canadian border overnight(NZT). Yesterday two men in their 70s…

Opinion: May & November the ‘yawn’ months

Column by head weather analyst Philip Duncan — If there are two months of the year that I think bring bland,…

Tuesday’s national forecast

A low to the west of the country sends a series of fronts over mainly the North Island today, a…

Monday night’s national forecast

A low pressure system brews out to the west of the country moving ever so slightly closer overnight, a few…