The weather this week smacks of late February with some settled, warm, dry days in the mix – along with some showery days, a couple of weak southern cold fronts – and potentially a colder change this ...

High pressure is increasing around New Zealand this weekend and next week – but it won’t always be centred over us, allowing ...

Severe weather risks start today, even though a storm isn’t forecast until Monday as low pressure replaces high pressure ...

Low pressure is expected to deepen quickly this weekend near the upper North Island and track just east of the island going ...

With high pressure dominating, and with a more northern placement, it means most regions will have westerly quarter winds over the coming week, although some coastal areas may be changeable with sea ...

There is still some disagreement in forecasting computer models about precise timing and placement of a stormy low that ...

By Wednesday the storm is not only gone from NZ, but the low itself falls apart south-east of the nation – but behind it is another storm, this one will come close to East Cape but – for now – we ...

The South Island and North Island will have a west to south-west flow kicking in over the days ahead, bringing western showers – and a cold front on Friday will drop temperatures in the lower South ...

Windy weather will fan out into a number of regions, while the worst winds will mostly be around the eastern North Island (south of East Cape), the lower half of the South Island, through the Cook ...

Heaviest rain is likely to be in the eastern side of North Island and the southern half of the North Island and down to Marlborough and Canterbury in the South Island. We show you the latest tracking, ...

We have a gap in the high pressure belt, starting Friday and possibly lingering until the start of next week….

In New Zealand, MetService classifies a thunderstorm as severe if one or more of the following criteria are met: Note: some ...