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Wet Weather Warnings
Monday, 28 April 2008, 1:54 pm | MetService
MetService forecasters have issued Severe Weather Warnings for heavy rain as a low-pressure system moves towards the South Island from the Tasman Sea. Fronts associated with this system are expected to move onto the North Island and western parts of the South ... More >>
Seeing Weather Through The Eyes Of A Child
Thursday, 24 April 2008, 5:37 pm | MetService
A Dannevirke girl's drawing of clouds has been chosen to be included in a recent World Meteorological Organization (WMO) publication showing a collection of child weather art from around the globe. More >>
Frosty Dawn Service For Anzac Day
Wednesday, 23 April 2008, 2:09 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting a fine day over New Zealand and a frosty dawn in many South Island places for ANZAC day. More >>
Severe Winds Battering Foveaux Strait
Monday, 21 April 2008, 12:16 am | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a marine storm warning for Foveaux Strait and a Severe Weather Watch on wind for Coastal Southland and South Otago. More >>
Foretaste Of Winter Over Southern NZ
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 4:05 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a Special Weather Advisory for southern Fiordland, Southland and Otago regarding a wintry blast on Friday. More >>
MetService Statement: Mangatepopo River Accident
Thursday, 17 April 2008, 2:36 pm | MetService
MetService continues to receive a number of media inquiries regarding the tragic accident on the Mangatepopo River on Tuesday 15 April. More >>
Bay Of Plenty Braces For Several Days Of Rain
Monday, 14 April 2008, 5:20 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued heavy rain warnings for Northland, Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty and northern Gisborne. A slow-moving front is bringing widespread rain to the northern half of the North Island and is forecast to linger over Bay ... More >>
Settled Autumn Weather Continues
Monday, 7 April 2008, 12:28 am | MetService
Settled autumn weather continues this week as another large anticyclone arrives with more sunny, dry weather over New Zealand. More >>
NZ MetService Takes Stake in UK Forecasting
Monday, 10 March 2008, 4:08 pm | MetService
New Zealand’s public weather forecaster, MetService, has taken a 50% stake in a private UK forecasting company Weather Commerce with a view to a complete buy-out in three years. More >>
Fine Weather for Most on Waitangi Day
Monday, 4 February 2008, 2:34 pm | MetService
The forecast for Waitangai Day is for mostly fine weather. However, MetService meteorologists expect strong southeast winds and a few showers for northeastern parts of the country. More >>
Cyclone Funa About To Makes Its Presence Felt
Sunday, 20 January 2008, 3:55 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are keeping a close watch on Cyclone FUNA as it leaves the tropics on Sunday. FUNA is currently centred to southwest of Fiji and is expected on Sunday to move southwestwards between Norfolk Island and Northland. More >>
Huge Contrasts In Recent Rainfall
Monday, 17 December 2007, 1:30 pm | MetService
December has been a notable month for contrasts in rainfall with high quantities on the Westland Ranges, above average amounts in northern areas, and very little in central and eastern areas. More >>
Metservice Operations Manager Honoured
Monday, 10 December 2007, 1:44 pm | MetService
In a ceremony recently held in Port Vila the Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic of Vanuatu, Hon. Edward Natapei, presented MetService's International Operations Manager, Garry Clarke, an honoury Tamtam or traditional split drum that is used by ... More >>
Rain: Welcome For Some Upsetting For Others
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 1:57 pm | MetService
MetService heavy rain warnings are now in force for Coromandel Peninsula, Waikato, Waitomo, Taupo, Taumarunui, the headwaters of the Whanganui River, Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty as a rain band makes its way across the north of the country. More >>
Soaring Into The High Twenties
Wednesday, 21 November 2007, 2:19 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting daytime highs to again reach into the high twenties today about the interior of the South Island. For about the next week, warm, mostly dry and sunny conditions are expected in eastern districts from Bay of Plenty ... More >>
Windy October
Wednesday, 31 October 2007, 1:03 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists issued 41 severe wind warnings for land areas during the past month. This makes October 2007 the third highest month for wind warnings in New Zealand since public warnings began in 1989. Top month was October 2006, when ... More >>
Burnt Before Christmas
Friday, 26 October 2007, 11:32 am | MetService
None of us sets out to get sun burnt, but many of us manage to do so even during the cool months of spring. As the sun gets higher in the sky the amount of ultraviolet radiation contained in its sunlight becomes enough to burn us long before the air ... More >>
Brief Break Then Another Burst Of Wind And Rain
Friday, 12 October 2007, 2:16 pm | MetService
MetService meteorologists have issued a heavy rain warning for Westland and a severe weather watch for heavy rain in Fiordland, Nelson, Buller, and the Marlborough Sounds. On top of this a severe weather watch has been issued for wind over southern parts ... More >>
More Rain To Come, Says Bob McDavitt
Monday, 8 October 2007, 2:57 pm | MetService
MetService have just cancelled their Severe Thunderstorm Watch which covered the Wellington to Taranaki area overnight and on Monday morning. Meteorologists are expecting more rain to affect northern and eastern areas later this week. More >>
Topsy-Turvy Weather
Monday, 1 October 2007, 12:32 am | MetService
MetService meteorologists are forecasting more topsy-turvy weather for the second week of the school holidays. Just like last week, temperatures in eastern South Island districts may soar to 20 degrees or more today and again on Thursday. But temperatures ... More >>
