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Weekend Weather Change
Thursday, 15 January 2009, 2:57 pm | Meteorological Service of New Zealand
After a week of dry weather, Wellington and Southland are likely to experience a wet start to their anniversary weekends. More >>
Beating The Heat
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 3:37 pm | MetService
MetService measured air temperatures up to 35.7 degrees Celsius in Christchurch early this afternoon, close to its January record high of 35.9 in 1979. Hotter than normal temperatures are widespread over New Zealand today, with 30 plus conditions reported ... More >>
More Pre-Christmas Rain
Monday, 22 December 2008, 12:37 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting more pre-Christmas rain as a depression nudges northern parts of the country. More >>
Pre-Christmas Rain
Friday, 19 December 2008, 1:13 pm | MetService
Periods of rain are likely over the coming weekend as a deepening low pressure system crosses southern New Zealand. MetService has issued heavy rain warnings as a frontal rain band closes in on the west and north of the South Island. The front is expected ... More >>
Welcome Rain For Farmers
Monday, 15 December 2008, 12:52 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting some welcome rain for farmers in Canterbury and Otago over the next few days as a large low pressure system crosses the South Island. More >>
A Touch Of The Tropics
Monday, 24 November 2008, 1:42 pm | MetService
Warm muggy weather over the last few days has been due to air flowing in from between New Caledonia and Fiji. Hawke's Bay has been measuring the warmest days and nights, with the temperature range on Sunday rising to 29 Celsius and dropping at night to ... More >>
Sunny And On The Cool Side For Election Day
Thursday, 6 November 2008, 1:27 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting sunny conditions, with slowly rising temperatures, over most of the country for Election Day. More >>
Chilly Change Before Guy Fawkes
Monday, 3 November 2008, 1:44 pm | MetService
MetService has issued Severe Weather Warnings for wind and rain associated with the passage of a cold front across the South Island during Tuesday, and a Severe Weather Watch for possible snow in the southern South Island later the same day. More >>
Another Spring Front
Friday, 31 October 2008, 1:35 pm | MetService
MetService has issued a Severe Weather Warning and a Severe Weather Watch for wind and rain associated with the passage of yet another front across New Zealand on Saturday. More >>
Unsettled Start To The Long Weekend
Wednesday, 22 October 2008, 1:13 pm | MetService
MetService weather forecasters are keeping watch on a depression that is deepening over the Tasman Sea and likely to cross the North Island on Saturday. More >>
Brace For Another Bout Of Wind And Rain
Monday, 6 October 2008, 2:15 pm | MetService
MetService has issued severe weather warnings for wind and rain covering many central and northern parts as an active cold front coupled to a deepening low pressure area crosses the country on Tuesday. More >>
Burnt Before Christmas
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 1:18 pm | MetService
UV indices have been added to the www.metservice.com website weather forecasts for 42 places around New Zealand. More >>
Icy Weather Watchers Win Award
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 4:15 pm | MetService
At the recent annual New Zealand Road Safety Innovation and Achievement Awards, MetService won the Road Engineering category for its Central Plateau Road Weather Network. According to Peter Fisher, MetService Senior Market Manager, the Network is aimed at making ... More >>
The Gales Of Spring
Monday, 22 September 2008, 12:56 am | MetService
MetService is warning that on Tuesday, northwest gales may generate gusts of 120 km/hour over inland eastern areas from Southland to Wairarapa and about Wellington. Additionally, heavy rain is likely in the mountains about and south of Otira, with ... More >>
Amazing Half A Metre Of Rain Likely In Three Days
Monday, 1 September 2008, 2:24 pm | MetService
MetService forecasters advise that heavy rain on the ranges on the South Island West Coast ranges could total in excess of 500 mm this week. More >>
August Ends On A High
Thursday, 28 August 2008, 2:25 pm | MetService
MetService forecasters expect the last few days of August to bring generally dry weather as an anticyclone moves across the South Island. More >>
More Than Two Months Of Rain In Two Days
Monday, 25 August 2008, 2:05 pm | MetService
During Monday and Tuesday, MetService expects 250 to 300 mm of rain to fall on the Kaikoura ranges, and around 120 to 200 mm to fall on the lowlands between Banks Peninsula and Kaikoura. More >>
Warm Rain For The North Island On Sunday
Friday, 22 August 2008, 1:10 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists expect a low pressure system to track across the North Island on Sunday and Monday, and to bring a burst of heavy rain to northern and central parts of New Zealand. More >>
Why So Much Snow
Monday, 18 August 2008, 1:14 pm | MetService
Since last Thursday there has been around 80 cm of fresh snow on the central North Island mountains and a metre or more on the western slopes of the Southern Alps from Mount Cook northwards. More >>
Winter Is Still With Us
Thursday, 14 August 2008, 2:09 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists expect unsettled wintry weather to continue over the north and west of both main Islands during the next few days. More >>
