For many of us it's hard to get our heads around what La Niña actually means for New Zealand.

The big tease - that's how I'd describe the weather this week for those desperate for some rain.

It's been a cloudy week for many main centres but the weekend is looking sunnier as yet another high moves in.

How many of you have an emotional connection with the weather? The weather plays such a massive part in our lives, even for those people who don't care about it.

A weekend for BBQing is on the cards as a large and strong anticyclone in the Tasman Sea pushes over the country.

While not a lot of rain has fallen in the past couple of months across most parts of NZ the 'typical' La Nina conditions are developing.

A humid week is on the way across much of the North Island and western South Island as a northerly flow develops.

WeatherWatch is reporting wintry weather pushing into Christchurch and heading towards Wellington.

This weekend will be a weekend of two halves as a wintry snap races up the country and another giant high moves in behind it.

Ahhh the smells of summer are in the air already. I'm not talking about Spring either. Not the smell of daffodils or the strong scent from citrus trees.

I was having a discussion with someone the other day who predicts the weather in more of an alternative way than I do and was claiming that winter is still well and truly with us.

A typhoon roaring in on the Philippines is amongst the most powerful ever recorded - and bigger than Katrina.

The weather isn't always a headline maker but it certainly affects us more than many of the news stories that we read about each day.

It's been exactly one month since Canterbury was rocked by the devastating 7.1 earthquake so I decided to return to the region to check out the damage.

Weather for the school holidays has been fairly good across the country, despite the current rain warnings in the west.

Sunday saw one of the best starts to daylight saving that I've seen in years. Not only did both the North and South Island take the national high with 24 degrees in Napier and Kaikoura, but several other centres also climbed into the 20s in

It was the storm that the chief forecaster at MetService said wasn't going to be big, and was angry at the media for saying so and for using, what he called, emotive language...