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
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
Met Office - from the UK
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
YR - from Norway
Foreca (Finland based)
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
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
Earthquakes Map - from the USGS