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

“Training” is a meteorological term that refers to thunderstorms and intense downpours all tracking in a line one behind each other – like train carriages on a train track. Slightly east or west of ...

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 setting in for NZ as a sub-tropical storm powers up for Thursday, before weakening this long weekend.

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

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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 ...