RAIN: Rain and showers brush the top of the North Island thanks to that offshore low, while some wet weather moves up the ...

TEMPERATURES: No big change in temperatures today from yesterday – but eastern areas are going to be hotter, especially ...

WIND: Westerly quarter winds continue today for the South Island with strongest winds around the Southern Alps – but below ...

When snow on the Southern Alps turned from white to red in the summer of 2019/2020, ash from Australia’s bushfires was blamed ...

Over the next five days New Zealand has unsettled weather with some hot, dry days, some windy westerlies again and more ...

This weekend sees no major changes to this week’s weather. On Saturday yet another powerful storm well south of NZ will ...

Wednesday is similar weather-wise to how many places were on Tuesday with high pressure centred east of the North ...

We track the showers, rainmakers and low pressure zones over the next 7 days, but also have a 15 day rainfall animation to make sense of the messy weather pattern we have around New Zealand this month ...

While torrential rain was lashing the West Coast this April, MetService was mopping up incorrect advice Niwa gave to ...

Some wet weather is coming for dry parts of NZ – but it’s not for everyone and it certainly a bit hit and miss as far as heaviest downpours are concerned. Still, there are chances for rain relief in ...

Pockets of rain relief will be coming for NZ over the next week as downpours, weak fronts and some sub-tropical energy will all be in the mix. There is high pressure also in the mix – bringing dry ...

There are several big storms well south of NZ over the next several days, along with high pressure dominating further to the north. This set-up encourages westerlies into NZ, heat to the east at times ...