The following sites are useful sources of information about the weather in New Zealand:
- The New Zealand MetService - for Forecasts, Weather Maps and Radar Imagery
- MetVUW - for the latest New Zealand surface weather observations and AKL, WLG, CHC and IVC radar images
- Weatherwatch Centre - from The Radio Network
- Weather from NZCity - from Weather Workshop
- The Climate Update - from the National Climate Centre for Monitoring and Prediction at NIWA
- Steve Rosie's homepage - from Christchurch with an excellent set of links
Local enthusiasts in the Wellington region have established weather stations feeding information onto the web at:
- Whitby
- Mana
- Silverstream
- Stokes Valley - currently not working
- Lower Hutt
- Strathmore near Wellington Airport
- Miramar near Wellington Airport
- Gladstone near Carterton
- Hood Aerodrome near Masterton
- Nelson
Links to these and other unofficial weather stations can be found at: Current New Zealand Weather
Local web cams are also useful for monitoring the weather:
- Wellington Harbour Entrance web cam looks out from Beacon Hill
- North Cam looks northeast across Wellington Harbour from Brooklyn
- Melrose looks across Wellington Airport
Cumulonimbus cloud building off Papeete, French Polynesia (2001)©
Not weather-related but GeoNet gives earthquake information for New Zealand.
- Bureau of Meteorology - from Australia for charts some of which include New Zealand on the eastern margins
- StrikeStar for lightning strikes in Australasia
- NOAA - from the USA for current conditions at Wellington Airport (NZWN) and Aviation Weather, including global TAFs and METARs
- The Weather Channel (US based) - for international coverage, including weather satellite photos of New Zealand, and conditions at and forecasts for Wellington
- Intellicast (US based) - for international coverage and forecasts for Wellington
- Weather Underground (US based) - for international coverage and forecasts for Wellington
- CNN Weather (US based) - for international coverage and forecasts for Wellington
- BBC Online - Weather Centre - for an Australasia page
- UM Weather - from the University of Michigan
- snow-forecastnz.com - gives freezing levels and rainfall as well
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center - from the US military at Pearl Harbor covering the Pacific and Indian Oceans
- Tropical Storm Risk
- Turbulence Forecast - from the US
- World Meteorological Organization
- Fiji Meteorological Service
- Meteo France - Nouvelle-Caledonie - in French
- Oceanweather - for current global marine conditions
- Clouds NEW
The following sites are relevant to the concerns about climate change:
- IPCC
- UNFCCC
- Climate Debate Daily - from New Zealand