A large high pressure system sits over the country today, mainly centred over the North Island but this will gradually push ...

WeatherWatch head forecaster Philip Duncan will be unable to front weather videos for the rest of May following a ...

Covering New Zealand, Australia and the south-west Pacific we track the high and low air pressure over the weeks ...

But a new low pressure zone may well develop again in the subtropics, with a chance of some heavy rain and wind at the top of the North Island later next week and next weekend. We have your 7 day ...

Hurricane force winds (120km/h+) in central NZ, squalls around Auckland, heavy rain across Canterbury up to Wairarapa and a ...

Heavy rain in the north-eastern South Island, and severe gales through central NZ and the top of the North Island will bring ...

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Severe weather is expected in parts of New Zealand mid to late week and going into the long Easter weekend as a low from the tropics drops southwards and rapidly deepens. Tropical low pressure has ...

High pressure may be dominating NZ for now, but a large low pressure area is challenging this as we head into Easter. Today we explain why there is some predictable “flip flopping” in the long range ...

High pressure continues to dominate most of NZ’s weather with the next cold front arriving on Monday with another burst of wind, rain and alpine snow – but it looks to fade fast going into Tuesday as ...

A mix of sun and cloud. Breezy Southerly winds.