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

Cyclone Tam is now a Category 1 storm with gale force winds around the centre. Category 1 is damaging, but it is also the lowest on the tropical cyclone scale (which goes up to five). In comparison, ...

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

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 ...

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

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Two big lows in the Tasman Sea shape the start of April for NZ and some eastern parts of Australia as a more energetic Autumn ...

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 ...

On Wednesday, after a colder start (with some frosts through the South Island’s interior), high pressure starts to return ...

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 ...

A storm near NZ will bring gales and pockets of heavy rain into both main islands for the rest of this week with the risk of ...