MetService:A Governmental agency, MetService gathers, analyses and provides weather information for the public of New Zealand, and for a wide range of domestic and foreign commercial customers.
New Zealand Weather Forum:The New Zealand centrepoint for weather reports, analysis and the discussion of thunderstorm/severe weather prognoses'.
BBC Weather Centre - Country Guides: New Zealand: Provides climate and weather information, facts and statistics about the country, along with five-day forecasts for major cities.
BlueSkies Weather at Fencepost.com: Provides detailed 2-day regional forecasts for New Zealand, 12-day forecasts, seasonal outlooks, synopsis map and weather recorder. (Some need free registration)
Current New Zealand Weather: Links to real-time personal weather stations across the country.
Forecasting by the Moon: Predict Weather predicts long range weather forecasts using the Moon's orbits, phases, lunar angles and almanac data. A very different forecasting approach.
Hourly NZ Infrared Satellite: Weatherzone Australia gives New Zealand hourly infrared JMA MT-SAT images.
Hydrometric Monitoring Network: A collection of links to all the regional council online river flow and rainfall information from around New Zealand
Indigenous Weather Modification: 'Breakthrough Technology'. Quite a laugh.
Interpreting Weather Maps in New Zealand: How to make sense of maps and symbols.
Landcare Research, NOAA Satellite Passes: High-resolution satellite images from the NOAA satellites, four passes daily and an extensive archive available.
Lightning Tracker - Auckland: Live java lightning strike tracking for the Upper-North Island region, based in Auckland.
Lightning Tracker - Canterbury: Live java lightning strike tracking for the Greater Canterbury region, based in Christchurch.
Lightning Tracker - Waikato: Live java lightning tracking of lightning strikes for the Waikato region, based in Hamilton.
Mean Sea Level Pressure Maps for Australia and New Zealand: Produced every day at 00:00 UTC (12:00 NZST) by the Centre for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies.
MetVUW Weather and Climate Service: Satellite and radar images, upper air data, forecast charts, surface observations, and interesting weather events (cyclones).
National Rural Fire Authority Weather: Maps showing fire danger class, rate of spread and potential intensity. 'Raw data' page gives an extensive page of observations.
New Zealand Soundings: Weather balloon ascents are under-taken daily at 12.00 and 00.00 NZST from Whenuapai Airbase, Paraparaumu and Invercargill Airport. Updated around 3-4 hours later.
NIWA - National Climate Centre: The NCC provides regular public information on current climate conditions across New Zealand including soil moisture and river flows, and outlooks for coming seasons.
OceanFun Publishing Ltd: Tide graphics, tables, and astronomical data for NZ.
Rosie's Weather links: New Zealand Weather links by Steve Rosie, Christchurch. Note: some links may die out.
Severe Convection/ Thunderstorm Outlook: MetService providing thunderstorm forecasting and discussion for the public and emergency services.
Snow-Forecast.com: Based on data from NCEP, it provides multi-level forecasts for the New Zealand ski spots.
Stephen Burrow's Stormchasing: Weather reports and photography.
Steven William's NZ Thunderstorm Encyclopedia: An in-depth guide and learning tool regarding New Zealand thunderstorms and other notable weather events.
StrikeStar Aus/NZ: Networked lightning detection.
Stuff.co.nz Weather: Using MetService's resources, providing forecasts for 42 New Zealand centres. Shows yesterday's summary and monthly records. Radar images, snow reports, marine and tide information.
Surf-Forecast.com: Based on the numerical WWW3 oceanographic model bringing a healthy number of surf breaks for New Zealand.
TVNZ: Forecasts from the MetService including the latest TV one weather report, on demand.
Weather Underground: New Zealand: The latest SYNOP report from various NZ locations. Extensive archiving available.