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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 ...
NIWA’s annual end-of-summer snowline survey has revealed continued loss of snow and ice for New Zealand’s famous glaciers. End of summer snowline survey, Tasman Glacier. The 2023 survey was the 46th ...
The table below shows the probabilities (or percent chances) for each of three categories: above average, near average, and below average. In the absence of any forecast guidance there would be an ...
A new NIWA-led study has found that climate change increased the amount of total rainfall during Cyclone Gabrielle by 10%. This additional rain fell during the most intense parts of the storm, ...
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 ...
NIWA is pleased with the announcement today by the Science, Innovation and Technology Minister of the Government’s response to a recent review of New Zealand’s weather forecasting system. The ...
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 ...