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The first six months of 2016 are set to be the warmest ever start to the year, according to NIWA’s long-term seven-station temperature series.
NIWA Meteorologist Ben Noll takes a north-to-south look at the record-breaking warm temperatures experienced by Kiwis during the winter solstice.
An important scientific milestone was reached on a windswept point at the bottom of the North Island this week.
A potent storm strengthening over the Tasman Sea will move over New Zealand tonight and pummel the country with heavy, possibly flooding, rain and damaging wind gusts.
Another powerful weather system is set to hit New Zealand tonight and tomorrow morning, bringing another round of strong, gusty wind and drenching downpours.
Across the North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or decreased slightly when compared to this time last week.
Across the North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or increased when compared to this time last week.
A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing these soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought.
A major weather system is heading to New Zealand in the next couple of days.
A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent. Regions experiencing these soil moisture deficits are deemed “hotspots”. Persistent hotspot regions have the potential to develop into drought.
A weekly update describing soil moisture across the country to help assess whether severely to extremely dry conditions are occurring or imminent.
A breakthrough in understanding about the causes of climate change has today been published online in the prestigious international journal Science.
NIWA climate scientists studying the diaries of an early English missionary stationed in the Far North have found the oldest surviving long-term instrumental weather records made in New Zealand.
Across the northern North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or increased slightly when compared to this time last week.
NIWA scientists are tapping into nature’s archives to understand our abrupt climate changes.
On the North Island, soil moisture levels have generally remained the same or increased when compared to this time last week.
Tropical Cyclone Winston is showing some signs of weakening as of this morning, now located about 600km southeast of Vanuatu’s southernmost islands.
NIWA meteorologists continue to monitor the progression of Tropical Cyclone Winston.
The remains of Tropical Cyclone Winston, which devastated Fiji over the weekend, may hit New Zealand at the end of the week, according to NIWA meteorologists.
Changes in soil moisture levels across the North Island vary when compared to this time last week, with a mixture of both increased and decreased moisture.

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