Weather Forecast for Wanganui15m above sea level
Mostly Cloudy. Breezy West to Nor'West winds.
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Blake on 5/05/2025 9:23pm
Hi;
Just wondering… my area (Bankside) is showing a 0% chance of rain but with 8.2ml being forecast. Later this week on Thursday. How should I interpret that? It seems a contradiction?
Cheers,
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WW Forecast Team on 5/05/2025 10:28pm
Hi Blake, if you match/check that with the hourly rainfall graphs it will makem more sense. Usually when that happens it means a dry day, but rain overnight. Rain is expected late at night/overninght Thursday going into Friday. The one single percentage we show for the entire day is during daylight hours up to 7pm.
Cheers,
– WW
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Blake on 5/05/2025 10:37pm
Hi WW;
Thanks for getting back to me. That makes sense. The WW day is basically 7am – 7pm?
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WW Forecast Team on 5/05/2025 11:26pm
Yes it is 🙂 (we should really have that written on the site)
– WW
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Josh on 6/05/2025 12:01am
give phil the best for me and his recovery. thanks
josh.
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Josh on 30/04/2025 9:40pm
hey phillip. a significent rain event for cantubury!!! and metservice and their civil defence are being slack. apparently no emergency alerts for them yet? local state of emergency for selwyn yes. but impacts across the region. so not just aucjklands civil defence but their one is useless too. you done a good job with the sub tropical lows/ex cyclone last few weeks Phillip. you were the only one that warned of the ex cyclone tam thunderstorm for auckland. no civil alert for that till 12 hours later. but you pointed out the risk 4 days beforehand. great job. hope those in Canterbury and wellington are ok. April has been wild.
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Mike on 30/04/2025 8:13pm
Hi guy’s, love what you are doing so keep up the great work. Just wondered if you could critique a weather snippet that I saw on TVNZ on demand stating that there was a mega storm system due this week “Thursday and Friday” that would have a quote “mega impact on the whole country” .I watched this fear mongering and wondered if you could take a look at it and see what your thoughts were then get back to me. Cheers, Mike from Foxton.
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WW Forecast Team on 30/04/2025 9:19pm
Hi Mike, I don’t even have to watch it to know that is over the top. Media in NZ, thanks to Government agency Niwa in particular, has managed to turn all severe weather into “major”, “mega” etc. While it may be very intense/severe for those caught up in it, it’s not a major scale nationwide severe weather event that warrants that sort of language. Words matter, and now NZ news outlets use extreme words for ALL severe weather events so it creates a “Boy who cries Wolf” syndrome. MetService used to really care about this, but they no longer publicly correct news outlets now that Niwa is taking them over. Hype is the future of Niwa Weather and NZ news media, especially now that news outlets have skeleton staff compared to a decade ago and now very few journalists or editors actually understand why they should be more cynical towards emotive weather headlines and stories. They don’t care if it’s over the top – which only serves to continue eroding public trust in them and their credibility.
– Philip Duncan
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Bimal on 30/04/2025 4:28pm
What is the road conditions of lake tepako to far lie.
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WW Forecast Team on 30/04/2025 6:52pm
Hi there – You’ll need to check with NZTA for that. https://www.journeys.nzta.govt.nz/highway-conditions
– WW
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