Mountain forecasts.   Marine forecasts.

The Warnings, Watches and Severe Weather Outlook.

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Latest New Zealand Weather from Victoria University, Wellington.   Observations of temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, pressure, and wind from around New Zealand mapped eight times a day.

Current New Zealand Weather from NZ Weather Stations On-line.

West Auckland Weather a graphical record of the outside temperature today.

Weather Underground   U.S. digest of New Zealand weather.

Interpreting Weather Maps in New Zealand.
How good are New Zealand weather forecasts? .

Mean Sea Level Pressure Analysis from the Commonwealth of Australia Bureau of Meteorology.
Interpreting the Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) Analysis..

Weather radar images from Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch, updated every three hours.
NOAA weather satellite pictures of New Zealand decoded by Frits Schouten.
NOAA-16   Satellite image of New Zealand.
An infra-red composite image centered over the South Pole prepared every three hours.
The Southern Ocean and global climate.
Anatomy of a Storm, wind storms, heavy rainstorms and snowstorms, storms from the tropics, storm forecasting, further reading. Tephra Magazine June 1997 Vol 16 in pdf format.
Pacific Tropical Cyclone Products archived at Ohio State University.
An El Nino Theme Page: Accessing Distributed Information related to El Nino.     La Nina.

The Taupo Volcanic Zone - a 250km-long zone of intense volcanism that marks the boundary of the Australian and Pacific tectonic plates.
The Central Plateau REAP home page has pictures of Mt Ruapehu erupting (from the US mirror www.geo.mtu.edu). The Desert Road (state highway one) was closed on September 25, 1995 and train service between Auckland and Wellington halted because of falling ash on the lines and Lahar flows threatening the Tangiwai rail bridge. There was a general Civil Defence alert within 100 km of the mountain.
Andrew Willmott's bulletin archives. Ruapehu before the eruption. More pictures and information on the Michigan Technological University Volcano Pages.
Manaaki Whenua, Landcare Research New Zealand Ltd has a high-resolution colour image from the NOAA-14 satellite.