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Thursday night’s national forecast

A ridge hangs onto the North Island tonight bringing settled weather however a front moves onto Southland and Otago signaling…

USA: Another polar vortex coming??

For those of you in, or about to travel to, the USA – don’t put away those winter coats and…

Australia: The end of the heatwave?

Summer is almost over and Sydney has experienced its first 30-degree day in eight weeks but that’s it with the…

Fiji residents warned to prepare for possible tropical cyclone

Fiji’s Meteorological Service has confirmed there are two tropical depression systems which are likely to merge and form into a…

Thursday’s national forecast

An anticyclone starts to weaken over the country today ahead of a front approaching the South Island from the southwest….

Weather Video: Dry for northern NZ

Dry conditions are starting to really set in across northern New Zealand and the forecast doesn’t show much rain in…

Wednesday night’s national forecast

High pressure will still give New Zealand mainly settled weather tonight, the main weather extreme which has been strong easterly…

China: First ‘orange alert’ for Beijing smog

Beijingers are once again choking as smog levels hit “heavy or even worse” levels in the capital and a number…

Tropics waking up north of NZ

March is the peak of the South Pacific cyclone season and latest computer models show a fairly high chance of…

Wednesday’s national forecast

An anticyclone lies over the country again today, morning cloud breaks in the east and north of the South Island…

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