A rare 'Fire rainbow' was captured over Auckland yesterday afternoon. Technically known as a circumhorizontal arc its an optical...

Updated 31st January 2025: Mangawhai and the surrounding areas over the years has had its fair share of severe weather . Again they have...

It's now 3 years on since the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai 'VEI 6' submarine explosion that reached 57km into the mesosphere, sending...

It is time to say good-bye to 2024 in what was a quieter year of weather and geological events for upper North Island compared to the...

This morning's Te Aroha shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake on the Kerepehi Fault is the 3rd and strongest over the last 72 hours in the...

An interesting magnitude 2.1 shallow earthquake under the Hauraki Gulf this afternoon. It occurred on the extension of the Hauraki fault...

Less than a year old, low resolution AI based weather models are already defeating physic based super computing models within a 7 day...

Between 7th to 9th May sunspot region 3664 blasted multiple X class solar flares towards earth. Initial radio blackouts occurred across...

The early arrival of the polar jet stream has given the upper North Island the coolest March since 2012. Our climate station only started...

The rare 'Fallstreak hole' formation appeared in a group of cirrocumulus clouds this week over the upper North Island . It was caused by...

It's been 2 years since the largest volcanic eruption of the 21st century (so far), occurred at the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai, submarine...

It is time to say good-bye to 2023 in what was a year of notable historical weather events for upper North Island. We will finish the...

A waterspout touched down into the Gulf this morning off Orewa with the sunrise making the funnel glisten. Waterspouts are more common...

The rare 'Asperitas clouds' arriving over the upper North Island on Friday. The cloud type was officially added to the International...

After starting as a tropical depression on October 17th 1200km to the north east of Vanuatu, a tropical low was given the name 01U on...

18 months on since the Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption, the global surface temperature is +0.13°c above January 2022....

A large shallow magnitude 7.7 occurred in the Loyalty Islands at 2:57pm NZT on Friday afternoon which triggered small tsunami waves...

Last night's Auckland thunderstorm produced a direct hit on the Sky tower caught on our live webcam. A negative charged downward streamer...

It was a very active 24 hours for space weather and seismic activity yesterday as a severe G4 geomagnetic storm bombarded earth’s...

A severe level G4 Geomagnetic storm arrived into earth's magnetosphere on Friday evening NZT, triggering the Aurora Australis over the...