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 ...

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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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