Category: Climate

Curious about what climate change will mean for New Zealand? Explore temperature and rainfall projections for a range of locations all the way out to the year 2100.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: Climate Change, climate, change, projections, weather, Atmosphere
Access nationally-significant weather data from approx. 6,500 climate stations which have been operating for various periods since the earliest recorded observations were made in the year 1850. Accoun...
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Category: Climate
Keywords: weather, climate, observations
Get estimates of the magnitude and frequency of high intensity rainfall for a range of return periods and event durations at any point in New Zealand.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: atmosphere, climate, rainfall
Browse a catalogue of major weather events in New Zealand over the last 200 years from the 1800s to the present, when significant damage or casualties occurred.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: climate, atmosphere, weather, events, historic
Find out how the concentration of atmospheric greenhouse gases, including C02 and methane, has changed at Baring Head since 1974.
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Categories: Atmosphere, Climate
Keywords: CO2, climate, atmosphere, methane, climatechange
View the long-running 'seven-station' series, which shows how New Zealand's average annual temperature has changed over the past 100 years.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: atmosphere, climate, temperature, record
See the weather and climate for locations across New Zealand – for the next 24 hours and beyond forecasted by NIWA's High Performance Computers and moderate by NIWA's team of weather experts.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: weather, forecast, climate, atmosphere
The New Zealand Drought Monitor is a system for keeping track of drought conditions across New Zealand based on a standardised climate index.
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Categories: Climate, Freshwater, Land
Keywords: drought, climate, hazard, weather, rainfall
Daily maps showing soil moisture deficit, soil moisture anomaly, last 15 days rain, month-to-date rain, last 15 days sun, month-to-date sun, last 15 days temperature, month-to-date temperature, last 3...
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Category: Climate
Keywords: climate, weather, maps
Annual, seasonal and monthly summaries of temperature, rainfall and sunshine data from across New Zealand.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: climate, weather, rainfall, sunshine, temperature, annual, monthly, seasonal
Air temperature, rainfall, soil moisture and river flow predictions for the coming season.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: climate, weather, rainfall, rain, temperature, soil moisture, river flow
Summaries of the typical weather and climate of a region, based on historical data observations made at climate stations located within the region.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: historical, weather, summary, climate, observations, regional
Monthly summaries of the climate in the tropical South Pacific islands, with an outlook for the coming months.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: climate, weather, Pacific, monthly
Summaries of up-coming tropical cyclone seasons, issued 6-monthly.
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Category: Climate
Keywords: cyclone, climate, outlook, Pacific
National daily river flow forecasts for 24-hour periods across New Zealand.
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Categories: Climate, Freshwater
Keywords: River, river flow, forecast, flood, modelling
The maps and data linked from this page provide a modelled representation of New Zealand’s 1% annual exceedance probability (AEP) extreme sea level flooding under current climatic sea conditions, plus...
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Categories: Climate, Ocean, Land
Keywords: sea-level rise, climate change, coastal, flooding, GIS, maps, scenarios
New Zealand Flood Pics (NZFP) is a photographic archive of flooding for Aotearoa New Zealand. Its purpose is to collate photographs from floods that can support evidence-based decision-making for indi...
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Categories: Land, Climate, Freshwater
Keywords: Flooding, Citizen science, PHOTOGRAPHS, Database