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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...