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RainWatch for Friday + Saturday to Monday.

A period of calm moves over New Zealand on Friday due to a ridge of high pressure. We just have…

Severe Weather: Essential Services may need to reconfigure workforce, Public should prepare mindset

Natural disasters may still occur despite the Covid-19 lockdown and with an Easter blast forecast in a number of regions many Essential Services/Businesses…

Easter Weekend: Unsettled weather with sun & calm, then gales and rain (+5 Maps)

Stormy weather this weekend has been hard to nail down but severe risks are now becoming clearer. A large area…

Stunning twist: Cyclone Harold returns to Category 5 strength as it passes Tonga

Overnight severe cyclone Harold strengthened further despite moving away from the equator and tracking south east towards Tonga. It’s worse…

VIDEO: Cyclone Harold, Easter Weekend stormy weather + RuralWeather.co.nz relaunches

Easter Weekend is here and the weather is doing what it typically does at Easter – be changeable. While today,…

Temperature trends for TODAY

A cool southwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand today, a front pushes off the upper South Island this morning and…

Thursday’s national forecast

A cool southwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand today, a front pushes off the upper South Island this morning then…

RainWatch for Thursday

A cold southwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand on Thursday, a change within this flow pushes into the eastern North…

Severe Cyclone Harold: Moving away from Fiji tonight, Tonga bracing for possible storm (+9 Maps)

Tropical Cyclone Harold remains a powerful Severe Category 4 storm as it begins to slowly move off from Fiji. The…

VIDEO: Cyclone Harold update for Fiji & Tonga + the good & bad of NZ’s Easter Weekend Weather

Severe Tropical Cyclone Harold is today hitting parts of Fiji, then next up is Tonga. New Zealand has a different…

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Meteors – Your Eyewitness Reports!

WeatherWatch.co.nz receives meteor reports from all over New Zealand and the globe, 24/7/365. **CASUAL COMMENTS**If you’ve seen something in the…

Latest: Gabrielle approaches NZ (+25 Maps)

The effects of Cyclone Gabrielle will be felt across much of the North Island today, especially later in the day,…

Cyclone Gabrielle strengthening as it slowly passes Great Barrier Island (20+ maps)

12:15am Tuesday NZDT — Cyclone Gabrielle’s movement has slowed to an absolute crawl near Great Barrier Island. The longer the…