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, ...

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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 ...

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The brightness and direction of the contours represents surface wind speed and direction. The colour is based on the surface (2m) temperature, and varies from dark blue below freezing, up to green at ...

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

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