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Map of New Zealand showing severe weather outlook until Thursday 16th July
Rugby test forecast: All Blacks V Italia Wellington 5.10pm Saturday. Cloudy periods, chance of a light shower. 8C
A map of Aotearoa showing the 7am temperatures in the towns and cities.
Rainy photo with Kaikoura rainfall totals of 133.9 mm in 48-hours (twice its monthly rainfall).
The image underneath is a snapshot of the radar from 8:00am this morning (7th July 2026). The O's and X's indicate where lightning has struck. Blue and yellow represent precipitation signals which are shown over Nelson, Marlborough and Canterbury. In the last 12 hours (8:00pm Monday – 8:00am Tuesday): Picton has measured ~105mm The Kaikōura Ranges have measured ~110mm The Waimakariri District has measured ~80mm Ashburton has measured ~60mm A few reminders: These warnings are still in place for a reason. Continue to follow advice from Emergency Management and your local council. Look after yourselves and one another
7am temperature map of Aotearoa for the towns and cities
An image of the lower south island, with orange covering otago and northern southland, and yellow over the remainder of mainland southland and parts of fiordland. A orange snow icon sits over inland otago, with an orange rain icon over the coast. A yellow rain icon sits over southland and a yellow wind icon is over fiordland. The orange snow icon has text that says 6am sun - 6am mon, and the orange rain icon has text that reads 6am sun - 9am mon.
7am temperature map of Aotearoa New Zealand
A photo of the south island with the title Metservice Severe weather watches and warnings. Parts of the island are coloured in orange and yellow, with yellow for southern fiordland and a yellow rain icon, then orange colouring with orange rain icons for the ranges of westland down to northern fiordland, and orange colouring with an orange wind icon over part of the canterbury high country.
A satellite image on the left and a radar image on the right, both taken around &:30am this morning. The satellite image shows areas of greenish low cloud and redder higher clouds, with arrows point towards different areas pointing out low cloud/fog over auckland, stratocumulus cloud over kapiti and mountwain wave cloud over otago/southland. The rain radar half of the image has arrows pointing out the showers in kapiti, northland and offshore west coast, and virga over southland.
The lower south island on a blue background. Orange colours cover fiordland north of doubtful sound, while yellow covers the remainder of fiordland. The rest of the south island is a neutral greenish colour. Text on the image reads MetService Heavy Rain Watches and Warnings. An orange rain icon with the text 9pm Fri - Noon Sat, and a yellow rain icon with the text 6pm Fri - 9am Sat sit beside fiordland.
An image of the country with a blue background. There are a number of towns and cities named on the image with their observed temperature at 6am this morning. Some of them are Auckland airport 5, Hamilton -1, Tauranga 5, Gisboune 7, New Plymouth 4, Palmerston North 5, Wellington 9, Nelson 3, Christchurch airport 4, Hokitika 7, Timaru -3, Dunedin city 3, Queenstown -1, Invercargill 2.
The attached image shows Queenstown at 8:00 am on 1 July 2026. You can see the ground looking nice and crunchy underfoot! 🥶(white coat over the usually green grass)
An image with a light blue background and a windy symbol, with the metservice logo in the bottom right corner. The image is covered by text which reads peak observed wind gusts, friday 27th of June. Brothers Island 159kph, Mt Kaukau 154kph, New Plymouth airport 128kph, Kelburn 124kph, Wellington airport 122kph.
Map shows winds speeds around Cook Strait on Friday morning with the strongest winds shown in purple streaming between the Islands.
An image of a windy tree with a bunch of text on top. In the bottom right sits the MetService logo. The text reads Observed Wind gusts 6pm thursday to 6am friday. Mt kaukau wellington 154kph, Brothers Island Marlborough 151kph, Cape reinga northland 133kph, New Plymouth airport taranaki 117kph, Kelburn wellington 110kph.
A foggy field, with a clear sky above. A thin red and white mast with support lines is in the right of the image, and a yellow plane is in the left. Arrows indicate the depth of the shallow fog compared to the blue sky above it. The title reads "7:24am, Masterton Airport".
Map of minimum temperatures observed around Aoteroa New Zealand on Sunday 21 June, ranging from 14°C in Whitianga to 2°C in Queenstown.
A graph of the last 24 hours of temperatures at Christchuch and Timaru airports, on a dark blue background. A heading reads "Canterbury Temperatures", with a red chilli pepper on the left and a pale blue row of icicles on the right. The graph has an orange line for Christchurch Airport's temperature, and a yellow line for Ashburton Airport. Both temperatures peak at 1pm on Saturday 20 June, then decrease for every hour after that. A box on the right says "As at 11am Sunday 21 June, Ashburton 8.6°C, Christchurch 7.9°C".
Background shows a blurred image of a tree bent sideways by the wind on a hill by the sea. A heading reads "Game night gusts observed in Wellington, Saturday 20 June 2026, 6 to 9pm". A table of gust speeds in kilometres per hour reads "Kaukau 146 Kelburn 119 Airport 106 Lower Hutt 89 Upper Hutt 81 Aotea Quay 72".
Weather forecast for Super rugby final Wellington, tonight: A few showers. Strong gusty northwesterly. 16C.