NIWA provides online access to major climate and environmental monitoring systems, databases and forecasting tools.
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Online services
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NIWA Weather
ServiceNIWA Weather is NIWA's public facing weather forecasting website. You'll find 2-day, hour-by-hour forecasts for locations across Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as forecast videos by our in-house meteorologists, animations showing rain forecasts, tide forecasts and NIWA's daily UV index. -
SolarView
This calculator estimates the solar energy that can be collected by a solar capture device (solar panel) at a given address, panel direction and roof slope. -
Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS)
ServiceNIWA's Urban Runoff Quality Information System (URQIS) provides planners, engineers and researchers with information about the quality of stormwater from different locations and landuses and under different flow conditions. -
UV Index
ServicePlots of today's UV index are available in graphical form for Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Lauder and Invercargill.