June 2025 mean sea level air pressure was higher than normal to the south of Aotearoa New Zealand, and mostly near normal over the country. This was associated with more easterly winds than normal for ...

Methane (CH₄) is New Zealand’s most significant greenhouse gas, making up over 50% of the country’s emissions, primarily from farmed livestock and waste facilities. Unlike CO₂, methane is more potent ...

Forecasting future weather starts by knowing what the weather is doing right now – everywhere in the world!

NIWA collects and generates as part of its Climate Station Network observational data in “10 min” format (data reported in 10 minute intervals).

Weather tells you what to wear each day, while climate tells you what types of clothes to have in your closet.

NIWA’s annual end-of-summer snowline survey has revealed continued loss of snow and ice for New Zealand’s famous glaciers.

New maps from NIWA and the Deep South National Science Challenge show areas across Aotearoa New Zealand that could be inundated by extreme coastal flooding. They show a large storm-tide with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cyclone Gabrielle - Hawkes Bay. NIWA's Jochen Bind surveying stop banks to assess flood water levels and stop bank breaches. The team also looked at what may have happened if the world was even hotter ...

November 2024 was characterised by a large belt of higher-than-normal mean sea level pressure that straddled Aotearoa New Zealand and the surrounding seas. This pressure setup resulted in a relatively ...

NIWA is part of a multi-agency biosecurity response to an invasive seaweed discovered at Aotea Great Barrier Island and subsequently at Ahuahu Great Mercury Island.