Weather

Periods of heavy rain, northwesterly gales and significant snow for parts of the South Island. An active front, preceded by a strong to gale northwesterly flow, is expected to move onto the South Island Sunday evening and move northeastwards over the Island during Monday. This Watch is for the possi

SH 93 Clinton to Mataura road closed due to snow. Detour route: n/a Heavy snow for parts of the lower South Island A cold showery southwesterly flow covering the South Island, is expected to spread over the North Island today (Monday). Snow is expected to 200 metres across the lower South Island, es

Current travel events for this region are listed below. NZTA will be adding more travel routes to as required. Southland UPDATE: SH93 Mataura to Clinton – Snow – ROAD CLOSED – Use SH1. UPDATE: SH94 Te Anau to Milford Sound – Snow– ROAD CLOSED – Milford Road closed overnight from the Lower Hollyford

Snow has starting falling in parts of Southland with reports from Gore that snow/sleet on roads Gore/Clinton causing issues for light vehicles… Metservice and Weatherwatch say Snow is expected to fall to low levels in the South Island tonight and through to Wednesday morning. This Watch is for the p

A front is forecast to approach the lower South Island Tuesday morning, bringing rain to western areas and another period of west to northwest gales to many parts of the south. The strongest winds are expected to affect Fiordland, Southland, Otago, and Canterbury south of the Rakaia River. A Severe

Weather services are predicting winter temperatures and even snow for Otago, Southland and Fiordland. A front and trough are forecast to cross Fiordland and southern Westland today bringing one or two short bursts of heavy rain. A low is expected to cross the upper South Island overnight Monday to T

Westerly gales over the far south of the South Island, easing this afternoon. A westerly flow covers the South Island over the next few days with a series of weak embedded fronts. Gale westerlies about the far south this morning (Wednesday), could possibly reach severe gale for a time in localised a

Periods of heavy rain for the southwest of the South Island. A period of strong north to northwest winds for Southland. A moist north to northwest flow is expected to affect the southwest of the South Island from today (Monday) till Wednesday afternoon. Slow moving fronts embedded in this flow are f