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 – ...

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

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 ...

High pressure continues to dominate most of NZ’s weather with the next cold front arriving on Monday with another ...

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Rainy and windy. Strong and blustery Easterly winds.

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Two big lows in the Tasman Sea shape the start of April for NZ and some eastern parts of Australia as a more energetic Autumn ...

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On Wednesday, after a colder start (with some frosts through the South Island’s interior), high pressure starts to return ...