High pressure is expanding over NZ this week, ushering in a cooler/colder airflow and bringing a few showers – ...

Cyclone Tam is now a Category 1 storm with gale force winds around the centre. Category 1 is damaging, but it is also the ...

We call this windy area between the low and high a “Squash zone” and this creates stronger and stronger north-east winds and ...

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

Training” is a meteorological term that refers to thunderstorms and intense downpours all tracking in a line one behind ...

A lot of high pressure is coming in to NZ – but will it be gone by Good Friday as a sub-tropical low grows? We have the ...

High pressure continues to dominate most of NZ’s weather with the next cold front arriving on Monday with another ...

Severe gales, heavy rain and travel disruptions are setting in for NZ as a sub-tropical storm powers up for Thursday, before weakening this long weekend.

Now we have a “gap between the highs” which allows this low to drop southwards and it will deepen (power up) as it does so. This is not a tropical storm – as it will actually be quite weak in the ...

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 ...