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Wondering how warm it is where you are? 📈Here are our observed temperatures at 3pm. 👇More info: metservice.com
14/06/2026

Wondering how warm it is where you are? 📈

Here are our observed temperatures at 3pm. 👇

More info: metservice.com

Temps are on the rise! 🌡️🚀After a few chilly days, temperatures are forecast to shoot up today with Napier forecast to r...
13/06/2026

Temps are on the rise! 🌡️🚀

After a few chilly days, temperatures are forecast to shoot up today with Napier forecast to reach 20C, that's 5C above average!

Why? Strengthening northwesterlies are helping to draw warmer air across the country.

Find your latest forecast: metservice.com

13/06/2026

Your Sunday forecast...

Strengthening northwesterly winds for central and southern regions with a Strong Wind Watch for Canterbury High Country and the Plains near the foothills where winds may approach severe gale in exposed places. 💨

A band of rain spreading onto the southern South Island with heavy rain for the southwest, with Heavy Rain Watches for northern Fiordland and the ranges of Westland. 🌧️

Elsewhere, fine in the east after any fog has lifted and cloudier in the west with a few showers. 😶‍🌫️ ☀️🌦️

Temperatures on the rise today, many places warmer than average. Highs of 17C for Auckland and Dunedin, 16C for Wellington and Invercargill and 18C for Christchurch. 🌡️

Latest forecast: metservice.com

What's in store for the remainder of the weekend?- Settled with high pressure still in charge for the North Island.- Mor...
13/06/2026

What's in store for the remainder of the weekend?

- Settled with high pressure still in charge for the North Island.
- Morning fog patches possible.
- More rain for the west coast of the South Island on Sunday.
- Temperatures on the rise through Sunday with a building northwesterly wind.

Latest forecasts: metservice.com

What's the current weather? 🔍🛰️Lots of clear skies, although areas of low cloud or fog are taking their time to clear. A...
12/06/2026

What's the current weather? 🔍🛰️

Lots of clear skies, although areas of low cloud or fog are taking their time to clear. As we head towards the winter solstice, we have less incoming solar energy to our part of the world, so cloud takes longer to lift and clear.

It's cloudier for central and southwestern regions. Can you see the deeper cloud bubbling up on the west coast? That's bringing rain to Hokitika at the moment.

Latest satellite imagery: metservice.com/maps-radar/satellite/new-zealand-visible

It's a foggy start for some today. Auckland has been seeing (or not seeing 😂) plenty of fog! So has Masterton. ⬇️ This w...
12/06/2026

It's a foggy start for some today. Auckland has been seeing (or not seeing 😂) plenty of fog! So has Masterton. ⬇️ This will gradually lift and clear with increasing daytime temperatures.

Find our forecasts here: metservice.com

When the cloud picks a peak to headline with… you get a Milford Sound system. ☁️🎵🎸
12/06/2026

When the cloud picks a peak to headline with… you get a Milford Sound system. ☁️🎵🎸

Auckland's air temperature warmed slightly overnight. How does that happen? 🤔The diagram below shows temperatures from t...
12/06/2026

Auckland's air temperature warmed slightly overnight. How does that happen? 🤔

The diagram below shows temperatures from two different nights in Auckland this week.

🔵 Blue line = Wednesday night (clear skies)
🟡 Yellow line = Thursday night (cloudy skies)

Notice how, toward midnight, the temperatures follow very different paths. The yellow line (cloudy night) levels off and even rises slightly, while the blue line (clear night) continues to cool until around sunrise.

So what's happening?

During the day, the ground absorbs energy from the Sun and warms up. At night, that heat is gradually released back into the atmosphere and out towards space.

On cloudy nights, clouds act a bit like a blanket, absorbing and re-radiating some of that heat back towards the surface. This slows the cooling process and can even allow temperatures to rise slightly overnight if warmer air is mixed down from above.

That's why Auckland was slightly warmer under cloud cover than it was beneath clear skies the night before.

11/06/2026

We’ve seen touches of winter for many regions this week, with frosty conditions and noticeably cooler overnight temperatures. Christchurch and Auckland have reached their lowest temperatures for the year, with –2.7°C and 0.3°C respectively recorded at their airports. ❄️☀️🌡️

Even Northland, Auckland, Bay of Plenty, and the Coromandel, areas that are usually too warm to see frost, will see some patches.

This is due to a high pressure system that remains the dominant feature through much of the weekend, bringing generally settled conditions to most regions. This should provide a settled end to the Fieldays event and generally favourable conditions for the Warriors’ clash against the Sharks on Saturday evening in Auckland🏉

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