Certainly a switch from windy southerlies and westerlies looks to be replaced by windy easterlies as high pressure grows ...

Weather for the middle of January sees high pressure dominating – but rain makers surrounding NZ, with a large ...

Week 2 may be even more settled as air pressure continues to rise. But showers, thunderstorms and occasionally windy weather ...

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 ...

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A southerly flow over much of the country strengthens during the day. Temperatures in the upper atmosphere over central New Zealand cool slightly during the morning making conditions a little more ...

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From our Education page — New Zealanders shouldn’t be so surprised how often it’s windy here. After all, we’re basically a few mountainous islands stuck partially in the Roaring Forties. But to many ...

From our Education Pages — It’s often said weather forecasters spend much of their lives looking up at the sky, but we spend even more time looking down at the sky from space, via our computers.

REPOST from our Education Pages — It’s always interesting when we get a complaint about a rain forecast, just how often the person complaining hasn’t looked at the ‘big picture’ or read the ‘fine ...