Weather Forecast for Lake-Tekapo736m above sea level
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Linda on 19/04/2026 2:40am
Really ! Weather forecast for kaiapoi said 2 days of torrential rain this week. We cancelled holiday to only see today we might possibly get a little shower!!!
How can you get it so wrong?
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Luke on 19/04/2026 7:00am
Hey Linda,
Phil explained recently that this current low is very difficult to predict as it is really messy. There has been no forecaster that has correctly predicted any of this weather for more than a day ahead. That’s just the reality of the business sometimes.
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Christine on 18/04/2026 11:45pm
Why does your weather forecast often differ from Met Service.? Very confusing.
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Jet on 14/04/2026 11:03pm
Hi weather watch earlier today I checked the forecast for nelson for Sunday and said thunderstorms now it says rain is there any reason why ?
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John on 14/04/2026 4:12am
Hi, do you offer soil temperature by district? Particularly useful in rural weather this time of year and spring
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WW Forecast Team on 14/04/2026 9:37pm
Hi John, no sorry we don’t have that data (all historical data in NZ is owned by Niwa/MetService and they don’t share this data easily). However some local councils do have good free information on current soil temperatures, but that soil data varies from council to council. The NZ Government treats current/historic weather data as something they can leverage to commercialise, unlike most other modern nations where this data is all freely available for public good, and is designed by Govt to keep Niwa/MetService more commercially relevant and to limit fair competition (like us) from being too successful.
Cheers
– Phil D
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neil on 11/04/2026 8:18pm
All other forecasters were predicting westerly wind for Saturday youre the only one predicting the SE we got.
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Kathy on 11/04/2026 7:17am
Great website for current weather – not sure there are any others as good
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Bruce on 11/04/2026 12:00am
Under Maps and Radar > Wind > MajicWeather Wind Forecast. The colour is based on the surface (2m) temperature, and varies from dark blue below freezing, up to green at around 10-15°c, yellow around 25-30°c and red at about 40°c.
Am I correct in assuming that the light colour (white) between the green and yellow is approximate temperature of around 16-24, or is it just light yellow?
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WW Forecast Team on 11/04/2026 4:10am
Hi Bruce, the white (brightness) areas represent the strength of the wind, being severe gale and above – not the temperature. Hope that helps.
Cheers
– WW
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