It has been a very dry start to the year on the West Coast. Looking at Hokitika, it's only seen about 14% of it's usual January rainfall so far this year. There will be some rain that moves up the coast on Thursday.

Thanks. I'll make some adjustments today.💡

It does look like another wet day for you tomorrow, but brighter, drier and warmer for Thursday.

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Kia ora, the good news is that the temperatures do look to be picking up through February :)

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Kia ora, we don't do cloud seeding in New Zealand. As a heads up, there is some more rain expected for you this weekend as the next area of low pressure runs towards us. Have a good week.

Kia ora, thanks for the feedback. What are you most interested in and how do you like to see it? We are always keen to try new things to help tell the weather story.

Kia ora, It has been a very cold start to year, thanks to the persistence of cold air coming up from the south. Even with a generally warming trend (2024 was globally the warmest on record) we can still see colder periods of weather. Temperatures this week are set to return to something more January like.

What a dry run it has been in Hamilton - just 9mm of rain reported so far in January (average for the time of year is 77mm!) A few showers for you on Friday morning but I think the next real rain will be later on Saturday.

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We've been watching the weather on the West Coast with jealousy!

It certainly has been a cold start to the year for us, thanks to the persistence of southerlies that we have been seeing. However, it follows on from globally the warmest year on record wmo.int/media/news/wmo-confirms-2024-warmest-year-record-about-155degc-above-pre-industrial-level This page is also a great tool to compare the amount of sea ice around the Antarctic, which shows a low peak for 2024 nsidc.org/sea-ice-today/sea-ice-tools/charctic-interactive-sea-ice-graph

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Slowly but surely into the ice - time.

Not until the end of March according to Niwa

Kia ora! I'm glad you found it easier to follow. 😊

Happy New Year. :)

Merry Christmas to you too! 😊

Meri Kirihimete and Merry Christmas to you too :)

Kia ora, you do get your fair share of thunderstorms on the West Coast. Thanks for your question. We issue the Severe Thunderstorm Watch if we are expecting the thunderstorms to bring either: Heavy rain of 25mm/h or more. Large hail of 20mm diameter or more. Strong wind gusts from thunderstorms of 110km/h (60 knots) or more. Damaging tornadoes with wind speeds more than 116km/h (63 knots) - i.e. Fujita F1 or stronger. All these things can bring some dangerous conditions so we try to give people a heads up.

Kia ora, thanks for your feedback. Saturday is generally looking like a very unsettled day especially for the central parts of the North Island. Here's a link to the thunderstorm outlook which might give you more of the details you are looking for. www.metservice.com/warnings/thunderstorm-outlook

Hope it isn't too wet for you. It looks like another rainy day tomorrow, hope you are somewhere dry.

I live Toatoa, motu rd, amazing high winds.

It has certainly been dry for a while. It looks like some more rain is likely through the region for the end of the week, especially late Thursday and into Friday which will hopefully give some respite to the high fire risks. Fingers crossed there's some brighter weather for you over the Christmas break. Thanks for watching :)

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Kia ora, thanks for your question. Check out our national forecast on the channel - we update it each weekday and you can also find it on our website www.metservice.com along with all the latest forecasts for New Zealand.