Disclaimer: The forecasts offered in this page draw upon modified Copernicus Climate Change Service Information [2022] (C3S, https://climate.Copernicus.eu). There is inherent uncertainty in ...

ENSO-neutral conditions are now in place, and there is a 70% chance that ENSO-neutral conditions will continue during June-August 2025, followed by a 60% chance that ENSO-neutral will remain in place ...

ENSO-neutral conditions are now in place, and there is a 70% chance that ENSO-neutral conditions will continue during June-August 2025, followed by a 60% chance that ENSO-neutral will remain in place ...

NIWA welcomes the news its merger with GNS will come into effect by 1 July. The Minister of Science, Innovation, and Technology, Hon. Shane Reti, has announced that our two organisations will join to ...

We are pioneering the use of AI to develop impact nowcasting. Our innovative approach combines extensive real-time data with AI technology to provide highly accurate and timely weather forecasting to ...

Co-developing a suite of control tools that target vulnerable gold clam (Corbicula fluminea) life-stages to disrupt dispersal, reduce the risk of transfer, and to manage the gold clam at different ...

New findings from the record-breaking Tongan volcanic eruption are “surprising and unexpected”, say scientists from New Zealand’s National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA). NIWA’s ...

Scientists have found a new ghost shark that lives exclusively in the deep waters of Australia and New Zealand. The Australasian Narrow-nosed Spookfish was described by NIWA Fisheries Scientist Dr ...

Stories of tremendous forest fires, huge storm events, and suffocating heatwaves have dominated headlines over the past few years. We instinctively feel that our weather is getting wilder. Are we ...

The NIWA and MetService assessment of tropical cyclone (TC) activity for the coming season indicates normal to below normal activity. (Tropical cyclones are categorised in strength from 1 to 5, with 5 ...

A blob of smoke from the Australian bushfires is continuing to circle the globe almost four months after it formed. Scientists around the world have been tracking the blob since it formed in December ...

January was Auckland's wettest month since records began, according to meteorologists. The Central Auckland Rainfall series recorded a total of 539 mm of rain at Albert Park, smashing the previous ...