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RainWatch – Thursday 5th January

A southwesterly airflow eases over New Zealand on Thursday while a ridge moves in spreading out from an anticyclone in…

Brrr! A cold start on Thursday – just how low are temperatures at your place?

New Zealand is squashed between a low south east of Dunedin and a high west of the West Coast –…

InfoGraphic: The main Weather News Highlights across NZ for next 3 days

Southwest winds easing today as a high pushes in from the Tasman Sea. Westerlies on Friday ahead of a front…

Thursday’s national forecast

North Island A mainly sunny day across the North Island, winds from the south or southwest. An afternoon sea breeze…

Fiji struck by 7.2 quake, tsunami warning lifted (+VIDEO)

An earthquake with a magnitude of 7.2 struck 284 kilometres off the coast of Fiji at 10.52, the U.S. Geological…

InfoGraphic: The Big Picture on Thursday

A southwesterly airflow eases over New Zealand on Thursday while a ridge moves in spreading out from an anticyclone in…

RainWatch – Wednesday 4th January

A southwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand today, within this flow a cold change moves northwards pushing up the eastern…

China – Beijing’s first ever “Red Alert” issued for smog AND fog

As if recent red alerts for smog weren’t bad enough, China has now issued its first-ever red alert for fog…

InfoGraphic: The main Weather News Highlights across NZ for next 3 days

A southwesterly airflow lies over New Zealand today, within this flow a cold change moves northwards pushing up the eastern…

Wednesday’s national forecast

Upper North Island Cloud to break to sunny spells in the afternoon, winds brisk from the southwest perhaps even strong…

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