Global Weather

Weather

The following international sites are useful sources of information about the weather both here and overseas: 

• World Meteorological Organization - Geneva - Severe Weather Information Centre - World Weather Information Service 

• Bureau of Meteorology - from Australia for charts some of which include New Zealand on the eastern margins 

• Fiji Meteorological Service  

• Meteo France - Nouvelle-Caledonie - in French

• NOAA - from the USA - National Weather Service, National Hurricane Center NEW and Aviation Weather,  including global TAFs and METARs 

• Joint Typhoon Warning Center - from the US military at Pearl Harbor covering the Pacific and Indian Oceans

• Canadian Weather - from Environment Canada 

• South African Weather Service 

• Met Office - from the UK

• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

• The Weather Channel (US based) - for international coverage, including weather conditions at and forecasts for Whangarei 

• CNN Weather (US based) - for international coverage and forecasts 

• BBC Online - Weather Centre 

• YR - from Norway

• Foreca (Finland based) 

• Windy 

• METAR & TAF NEW - visual decoder of airport weather 

• Weather Underground (US based) - for international coverage with links to weather stations on Church Road, Ngararatunua and in Kamo West 

• UM Weather - from the University of Michigan

• snow-forecast.com - gives freezing levels and rainfall as well

• Tropical Storm Risk  

• Turbulence Forecast - from the US

• Oceanweather - for current global marine conditions 

• World Wide Lightning Location Network - lightning strikes around the world

• LightningMaps.org - lightning strikes in New Zealand 

Climate Change

The following sites are relevant to the science about climate change and official action being taken to address these:

• IPCC  

• UNFCCC  

Earthquakes

• Earthquakes Map - from the USGS

• International Tsunami Information Center 

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Last updated on 9 September 2025