Wild Weather Likely as Tropic and Antarctica Jet Streams Merge
November 22, 2022
PHOTO: MetService
wo jet streams - one from the tropics and other from Antarctica - are set to merge, unleashing days of electrical storms, gales, rain and even snow.
No part of New Zealand will be spared with the volatile cocktail set to sweep over all regions and last until Friday.
Most of the country is this morning under weather alerts including 4m-high waves set to pummel the Wellington western coastline and snow to cover the Southern Alps.
The near-dozen warnings and watches began in the early hours of Tuesday morning and last until Thursday morning.