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.

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.

Is this as cold as it will get this year? Quite likely, writes Philip Duncan