Severe weather risks may increase today but are likely to become more isolated as we go through the long weekend….

Severe gales, heavy rain and travel disruptions are expected for NZ as a sub-tropical storm moves in.

A tropical cyclone has formed near Vanuatu and while short lived (as it’s tracking south out of the tropics) it will morph into a new storm system in the NZ area. At the time of recording this the ...

We call this windy area between the low and high a “Squash zone” and this creates stronger and stronger north-east winds and then slows down the sub-tropical rain – bringing a burst of severe wind and ...

This creates a squash zone (additional windy easterly weather between the exiting high and incoming/deepening low – and this ...

High pressure may be dominating NZ for now, but a large low pressure area is challenging this as we head into Easter. Today we explain why there is some predictable “flip flopping” in the long range ...

High pressure continues to dominate most of NZ’s weather with the next cold front arriving on Monday with another burst of wind, rain and alpine snow – but it looks to fade fast going into Tuesday as ...