Weather

BBC Weather Centre - Country Guides: New Zealand - Provides climate and weather information, facts and statistics about the country, along with five-day forecasts for major cities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world/country_guides/results.shtml?tt=TT003150

Snow-Forecast.com - Based on data from NCEP, it provides multi-level forecasts for the New Zealand ski spots.
http://www.snow-forecast.com

MetVUW Weather and Climate Service - Satellite and radar images, upper air data, forecast charts, surface observations, and interesting weather events (cyclones).
http://www.metvuw.com/

Current New Zealand Weather - Links to real-time personal weather stations across the country.
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/tmcgavin/current_nzweather.html

Steven William's NZ Thunderstorm Encyclopedia - An in-depth guide and learning tool regarding New Zealand thunderstorms and other notable weather events.
http://www.thunderstorm.co.nz/

BlueSkies Weather at Fencepost.com - Provides detailed 2-day regional forecasts for New Zealand, 12-day forecasts, seasonal outlooks, synopsis map and weather recorder. (Some need free registration)
http://www.fencepost.com/weather/nzweathermap.jhtml?_DARGS=/global/c_menu.jhtml.192_A&_DAV=weather%2C%2Cnzweathermap

Landcare Research, NOAA Satellite Passes - High-resolution satellite images from the NOAA satellites, four passes daily and an extensive archive available.
http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/

TVNZ - Forecasts from the MetService including the latest TV one weather report, on demand.
http://tvnz.co.nz/cda/tvnz/weather_index_skin

StrikeStar Aus/NZ - Networked lightning detection.
http://www.sphere.net.au/strikestarau/

Lightning Tracker - Auckland - Live java lightning strike tracking for the Upper-North Island region, based in Auckland.
http://www.portunus.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html

NIWA - National Climate Centre - The NCC provides regular public information on current climate conditions across New Zealand including soil moisture and river flows, and outlooks for coming seasons.
http://www.niwascience.co.nz/ncc/

Rosie's Weather links - New Zealand Weather links by Steve Rosie, Christchurch. Note: some links may die out.
http://met.net.nz

Mean Sea Level Pressure Maps for Australia and New Zealand - Produced every day at 00:00 UTC (12:00 NZST) by the Centre for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.
http://www.wxmaps.org/pix/aus.slp.html

Lightning Tracker - Waikato - Live java lightning tracking of lightning strikes for the Waikato region, based in Hamilton.
http://www.hamiltonweather.co.nz/lightning/StormVue.html

Lightning Tracker - Canterbury - Live java lightning strike tracking for the Greater Canterbury region, based in Christchurch.
http://skywatcher.net.nz/weather/StormVue.html

Weather Underground: New Zealand - The latest SYNOP report from various NZ locations. Extensive archiving available.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/NZ.html

National Rural Fire Authority Weather - Maps showing fire danger class, rate of spread and potential intensity. 'Raw data' page gives an extensive page of observations.
http://nrfa.fire.org.nz/fire_weather/weather/fireWeather.asp

Weather news from NewstalkZB - From the Radio Network's Weather Watch Centre, read the latest weather news from New Zealand, updated regularly.
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/anndetail.asp?annid=1264

OceanFun Publishing Ltd - Tide graphics, tables, and astronomical data for NZ.
http://www.ofu.co.nz/

VHF site for New Zealand VHF Channels - New Zealand VHF Weather Channels and times.
http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/%7ephilclarke/N.Z.%20VHF%20Weather%20INFO.htm

New Zealand Soundings - Weather balloon ascents are under-taken daily at 12.00 and 00.00 NZST from Whenuapai Airbase, Paraparaumu and Invercargill Airport. Updated around 3-4 hours later.
http://expert.weatheronline.co.uk/daten/profi/en/temps/temps_list_pazi_nz_00.html

Indigenous Weather Modification - 'Breakthrough Technology'.
http://twm.co.nz/

Stuff.co.nz Weather - Using MetService's resources, providing forecasts for 42 New Zealand centres. Shows yesterday's summary and monthly records. Radar images, snow reports, marine and tide information.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/weather/

Hourly NZ Infrared Satellite - Weatherzone Australia gives New Zealand hourly infrared JMA MT-SAT images.
http://www.weatherzone.com.au/satellite.jsp?lt=wzcountry&lc=nz

Severe Convection/ Thunderstorm Outlook - MetService providing thunderstorm forecasting and discussion for the public and emergency services.
http://metservice.co.nz/default/index.php?alias=thunderstormoutlook

Hydrometric Monitoring Network - A collection of links to all the regional council online river flow and rainfall information from around New Zealand
http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/peterweb/hydromonitor/hydromonitor.html

Surf-Forecast.com - Based on the numerical WWW3 oceanographic model bringing a healthy number of surf breaks for New Zealand.
http://www.surf-forecast.com/breaks.shtml

Interpreting Weather Maps in New Zealand - How to make sense of maps and symbols.
http://www.nzlsar.org.nz/sar-wx.html

Forecasting by the Moon - Predict Weather predicts long range weather forecasts using the Moon's orbits, phases, lunar angles and almanac data. A very different forecasting approach.
http://www.predictweather.com/