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

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 ...

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 ...

We have spring-like weather this week with a colder start in the south today but more hot summer-like nor-westers ...

Over the next five days New Zealand has unsettled weather with some hot, dry days, some windy westerlies again and more sub-tropical air. There is wet weather in the forecast – we break it down for ...

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

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

On Saturday cooler air makes things a bit more refreshing for many places as high pressure moves closer to NZ with a west to ...

MetService wanted itself and competitor Niwa Weather shut down in favour of a new Crown weather forecasting agency because ...

Originally published Dec 2 — Summer heat and dry is increasing over NZ’s North Island and upper eastern half of the South ...

DAYS AHEAD On Thursday west to sou-west winds cover the nation and are a bit windy in exposed places with a few western and ...