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

Powerful high pressure to the east of NZ will create a “squash zone” – which is a line of windy north-east weather that will build today, ramp up on Wednesday and peak in many regions on Thursday – ...

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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 ...

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

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 ...

High pressure continues to dominate most of NZ’s weather with the next cold front arriving on Monday with another burst of wind, rain and alpine snow – but it looks to fade fast going into Tuesday as ...

A mix of sun and cloud. Calm/Variable winds.

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 latest forecast and big picture modelling showing how settled NZ’s weather will ...