Severe weather warnings issued for much of New Zealand this week

Sunday 19 October 2025 · 5 outlets · 6 reports · updated Mon 20 Oct 2025, 7:53am

In this story MetService

MetService has issued multiple orange-level warnings for heavy rain and strong winds as two significant weather systems approach. The first system is expected to arrive on Monday, followed by a potentially highly impactful event on Thursday that may affect almost the entire country.

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1. 1NewsSun 19 Oct 2025, 1:08pm

   Heavy rain, severe gales to hit South and lower North Island (opens in new tab)

2. Otago Daily TimesSun 19 Oct 2025, 3:06pm

   Raft of weather warnings ahead of potentially 'highly impactful event' (opens in new tab)

   • 'Volatile week' of weather; 'big day' to come (opens in new tab) Mon 20 Oct 2025, 7:53am
3. StuffSun 19 Oct 2025, 3:19pm

   ‘Highly impactful’ weather event to hit most of New Zealand this week (opens in new tab)

4. NZ HeraldSun 19 Oct 2025, 7:03pm

   Weather: Heavy rain watch and gales up to 130km/h for central North Island (opens in new tab)

5. RNZMon 20 Oct 2025, 5:11am

   Weather: Much of the country looking forward to 'volatile' week of weather - MetService (opens in new tab)