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.

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...

Weather analyst Philip Duncan gives his account of the Christchurch earthquake.

Fox News has become famous for hiring hot female weather presenters, writes Philip Duncan.

A new low developing in the Tasman Sea will bring on another wet weekend providing south easterlies that carry miserable, grey weather and snow for the South, writes Philip Duncan.