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Turning Unsettled This Week
Monday, 20 February 2012, 2:00 pm | MetService
The weather is likely to be unsettled in many northern and western parts of the country from Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, as a warm northerly flow spreads across New Zealand. "Heavy falls are possible on the West Coast of the South Island, in ... More >>
Several Days of Isolated Downpours Possible
Monday, 13 February 2012, 3:19 pm | MetService
MetService is forecasting a few days of patchy rain and possible isolated downpours in many North Island places this week. More >>
A Mostly Settled Waitangi Holiday Weekend
Tuesday, 31 January 2012, 3:17 pm | MetService
MetService Media and Communications Meteorologist Daniel Corbett commented "Weather-wise, this summer has been quite up and down in many places, so it will be a nice coincidence to have a fine spell occurring over a long weekend." More >>
Another wet and windy spell between the highs
Wednesday, 25 January 2012, 1:29 pm | MetService
After some fine weather across most of New Zealand in the last couple of days, the rollercoaster ride of weather systems continues with another active weather front bringing a spell of unsettled weather nearer the end of the week. More >>
A cool southerly blast between the highs
Thursday, 19 January 2012, 12:43 pm | MetService
The settled weather from visiting summer anticyclones will be put on hold briefly as an unseasonably cool southerly blast spreads across most of the country during the second half of the weekend. An active weather front will move onto Southland ... More >>
A Wet and Windy End to the Week
Wednesday, 11 January 2012, 4:03 pm | MetService
An active area of low pressure over the Tasman Sea could bring a brief spell of heavy rain across parts of New Zealand late Thursday into Friday. This weather system could also bring gale force winds in exposed places with the strengthening northwesterly. More >>
A weekend of two halves
Friday, 6 January 2012, 12:08 pm | MetService
The coming weekend could be described as one of two halves, with dying weather fronts across the South Island and a new sub-tropical low spreading rain onto the North Island. More >>
Latest On The Rain
Wednesday, 28 December 2011, 1:29 pm | MetService
A low pressure system of tropic origin is slow-moving in the Tasman Sea and its associated frontal rain band is expected to move onto the North Island and the northwest of the South Island during Thursday. More >>
A Wet End To 2011
Monday, 26 December 2011, 6:37 pm | MetService
The large anticyclone that brought sunny weather across New Zealand for Christmas will drift east as we head toward the end of 2011. This will open the door for an area of low pressure to slid in and bring some wet weather for the last few days ... More >>
A Wet End To 2011
Monday, 26 December 2011, 6:00 pm | Meteorological Service of New Zealand
The large anticyclone that brought sunny weather across New Zealand for Christmas will drift east as we head toward the end of 2011. This will open the door for an area of low pressure to slid in and bring some wet weather for the last few days ... More >>
Mostly Settled Lead into Christmas
Monday, 19 December 2011, 2:12 pm | MetService
In most places, the weather for Christmas Day and Boxing Day is likely to be generally settled, mild to warm, and not very windy. Near the coast, daytime temperatures are likely to be in the low to mid 20s, with afternoon sea breezes. Inland, daytime temperatures ... More >>
A Week of Humidity And Rain Ahead
Monday, 12 December 2011, 2:03 pm | MetService
Sub-tropical humidity should cover much of the country by the middle of the week. This is in advance of a major trough that is likely to bring rain to the South Island on Wednesday, before moving across the North Island during Thursday and early Friday. More >>
Rain Until Midweek For Some Places
Monday, 5 December 2011, 4:22 pm | MetService
After a wet weekend in many places, another weather system is expected to bring further bursts of heavy rain to some places during Tuesday and early Wednesday. Thundery showers are likely inland during the afternoon, commented MetService Media and Communications ... More >>
Windy End To Wekk
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 5:00 pm | MetService
Very strong west to southwest winds are expected to spread over the South Island and parts of the North Island on Thursday evening and may persist to early Saturday. More >>
Rain Radar in Real Time on Metservice Website
Thursday, 24 November 2011, 4:40 pm | MetService
Today MetService launched real-time rain radar coverage of New Zealand on its website, metservice.com. For the last hour, images are every 7.5 minutes - the time it takes for each radar to go through one scan of its coverage area and send back an image ... More >>
More Rain and Wind On Wednesday
Tuesday, 22 November 2011, 1:28 pm | MetService
Hard on the heels of the most recent event, another fast-moving front is likely to deliver another dose of very gusty northwest winds and heavy rain on Wednesday. MetService have issued Severe Weather Warnings and Watches for heavy rain for the South Island ... More >>
A Classic Spring Storm
Friday, 18 November 2011, 4:19 pm | MetService
On Sunday and Monday, classic Spring northwesterlies and rain are expected to affect central and southern parts of New Zealand. More >>
Bay of Plenty Thunderstorms
Monday, 14 November 2011, 12:58 pm | MetService
MetService has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the area from Bay of Plenty through to the central North Island high country, for today. More >>
MetService: Brief Wintry Blast
Wednesday, 2 November 2011, 1:47 pm | MetService
An unseasonably cold southwest outbreak is expected over southern New Zealand on Friday. "This wintry blast is likely to bring snow to low levels in Fiordland,Southland and possibly South Otago during Friday and early Saturday," commented MetService ... More >>
Rain For Many On Tuesday
Monday, 31 October 2011, 3:09 pm | MetService
MetService has issued a Severe Weather Warning for heavy rain in Fiordland and over Stewart Island. A Severe Weather Watch, again for rain, is in force for parts of the Bay of Plenty, Gisborne, Taranaki, Nelson and Marlborough districts. "A low over ... More >>
