2025 was an overall wetter and milder than normal year for upper North Island. The most extreme weather events were the Mangawhai tornado 26th January and Ex-tropical cyclone Tam on 17th April. Here were some observation highlights across the upper North Island over the year up to 7am 31st December. Max Temp: 30.9°c , Whitianga, Coromandel Peninsula 7th Dec Min Temp: -1.2°c , Ahuroa, Auckland & Waihi, Coromandel 23rd July Ave temp for 2025: 16.6°c  at our HGW climate statio

GeoNet recorded a shallow magnitude 3.0 on the Cradock Channel fault line just north of Great Barrier Island at 11:40am today, which was also registered as felt on the Island. This was followed in the same location by a 2nd smaller shallow magnitude 2.0 at 11:45am. Today's M3.0 quake location is nearby to a M3.8 event that occurred on 11th March 1992. in recent year there was also activity in 2022  and 2021 .

On July 30, 2025, at 11:24:50 NZT, a magnitude 8.8 megathrust earthquake struck off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, about 119 km...

The M3.4 earthquake occurred just to the north of the Hauraki gulf associated with the ongoing earthquake swarm off Whangarei. It was...

One of the wettest April’s on record for the upper North Island Notable monthly April rainfall totals for the upper North Island as of...

Cyclone Tam impacted the upper North Island with severe gales and widespread flooding across Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel...

A rare 'Fire rainbow' was captured over Auckland yesterday afternoon. Technically known as a circumhorizontal arc its an optical...

Updated 31st January 2025: Mangawhai and the surrounding areas over the years has had its fair share of severe weather . Again they have...

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This morning's Te Aroha shallow magnitude 3.2 earthquake on the Kerepehi Fault is the 3rd and strongest over the last 72 hours in the...

An interesting magnitude 2.1 shallow earthquake under the Hauraki Gulf this afternoon. It occurred on the extension of the Hauraki fault...

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Between 7th to 9th May sunspot region 3664 blasted multiple X class solar flares towards earth. Initial radio blackouts occurred across...

The early arrival of the polar jet stream has given the upper North Island the coolest March since 2012. Our climate station only started...

The rare 'Fallstreak hole' formation appeared in a group of cirrocumulus clouds this week over the upper North Island . It was caused by...

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A waterspout touched down into the Gulf this morning off Orewa with the sunrise making the funnel glisten. Waterspouts are more common...

The rare 'Asperitas clouds' arriving over the upper North Island on Friday. The cloud type was officially added to the International...