Next 24 Hours in Nelson
Next 9 Days in Nelson
Sun 6 Jul
Sun 6 Jul
10ยฐ
Day
3ยฐ
Night
Cloudy. Calm/Variable winds.
SE
6km/h
10%
chance
of rain
trace
Cloudy. Calm/Variable winds.
Mon 7 Jul
Mon 7 Jul
12ยฐ
Day
6ยฐ
Night
Mostly cloudy. Calm/Variable winds.
SE
7km/h
10%
chance
of rain
trace
Mostly cloudy. Calm/Variable winds.
Tue 8 Jul
Tue 8 Jul
11ยฐ
Day
8ยฐ
Night
Light rain developing in the afternoon. Calm/Variable winds.
SSE
5km/h
70%
chance
of rain
4.6mm
Light rain developing in the afternoon. Calm/Variable winds.
Wed 9 Jul
Wed 9 Jul
14ยฐ
Day
9ยฐ
Night
Showers. Calm/Variable winds.
SSE
5km/h
40%
chance
of rain
3.9mm
Showers. Calm/Variable winds.
Thu 10 Jul
Thu 10 Jul
14ยฐ
Day
10ยฐ
Night
Rain. Breezy Easterly winds.
E
14km/h
80%
chance
of rain
31.5mm
Rain. Breezy Easterly winds.
Fri 11 Jul
Fri 11 Jul
14ยฐ
Day
9ยฐ
Night
Rain. Light Nor'East winds.
NE
12km/h
70%
chance
of rain
12.7mm
Rain. Light Nor'East winds.
Sat 12 Jul
Sat 12 Jul
13ยฐ
Day
8ยฐ
Night
Showers. Light Westerly winds.
W
11km/h
70%
chance
of rain
5.9mm
Showers. Light Westerly winds.
Sun 13 Jul
Sun 13 Jul
14ยฐ
Day
7ยฐ
Night
Morning showers. Light Westerly winds.
W
10km/h
30%
chance
of rain
0.3mm
Morning showers. Light Westerly winds.
Mon 14 Jul
Mon 14 Jul
13ยฐ
Day
7ยฐ
Night
Scattered showers. Light West to Sou'West winds.
WSW
9km/h
30%
chance
of rain
2.6mm
Scattered showers. Light West to Sou'West winds.
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Richard on 5/07/2025 12:42am
With the media being focused (hyped) on the flooding drama another weather event has gone unnoticed.
Yesterday 4th July Hamilton either nearly or did experience its hottest July day on record with some parts of the city reaching 21c. I remember a few years ago when New York reached a record of 18c on a mid-winter day. it made headline news all around the world with a large photo of New Yorkers on the streets in short sleeves.
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WeatherObserver on 1/07/2025 8:11am
1. If tornadoes are meant to be rare in NZ then why we are getting so many of these recently (in fact I have heard in the news at least once for almost every low recently). Also if a tornado is touching down anywhere in NZ, does it mean a โsupercellโ storm has formed as it does in the USA?
2. It hasnโt been too cold recently. When can I next expect some very cold and wintry burst of weather?
3. What does temperature for each hour in the trends graph show, average, lowest or the exact temperature for that particular time e.g. 1:00pm? Same goes for the outlooks and 9-day forecasts.
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WW Forecast Team on 1/07/2025 8:03pm
Hi there.
1. Not every โtornadoโ quoted by the news is actually a tornado. Many are squall winds (or straight line winds) which create similar damage but arenโt actually a tornado. NZโs news media is well known for misuing the term (even Wikipedia mentions it). NZ gets many EF0 and EF1 tornados โ but most hit rural places so arenโt seen or documented.
2. Not sure yet โ nothing on the horizon.
3. Itโs what we expect the conditions to be at that timeโฆ.if it says 17 degrees 1pm Thursday then that is what we are forecasting for that time.
Kind regards
โ WW
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Cris on 27/06/2025 8:12pm
Having reviewed Observations in my area for a few weeks now I am either in the middle of a lot of turbulence or some people do not know how to accurately report their observed wind directions. Do you have any process on how you choose which are authentic or just average out for your reporting? Is it worth your contacting all the observers on your contributing database and explaining that the wind direction stated is the direction it is coming from โ not going to. i.e. A southerly wind is a wind that originates from the south and blows towards the north. In other words, itโs a wind coming from the south.
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Felicity on 28/06/2025 8:10pm
So how it works is that everyday people who have decent weather stations register them to a weather website so the data is shared with that site. Weather watch publishes that so we can see what is happening with the observed weather closer to our homes rather than just the main centres. If our wifi goes out or we have problems with the station then the data wonโt upload or the station will be showing odd things. Weather watch canโt contact any of us and donโt control our stations, theyโre just sharing our data which I assume they purchase from the website. The more people who have these weather stations that are shared the more data for weather watch to use and the easier it will be for other people to find a station that is in a microclimate that best reflects their own. Does that make sense?
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Nick on 3/07/2025 3:39am
Hi..
Do you have any recommendations for weather stations we can use to contribute?
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Felicity on 3/07/2025 6:34am
We got ours from Tradetested for $350.
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David Briggs on 26/06/2025 11:31pm
Can you explain why the rain radar maps that the Met Service provide have such a bizarre colour scheme? It makes them very hard to read, and as a geographer it breaks my heart to see a system that has no logical progression from low to high in it. Other countries seem to use much more intuitive spectral scales.
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