Looking to the weekend we see the mercury rise for much of the country especially in the east as warm and humid westerlies ...

This weekend sees no major changes to this week’s weather. On Saturday yet another powerful storm well south of NZ will ...

China says strong "westerlies" blew the device "with limited self-steering capability" off its planned course. BBC Weather's Simon King says that in the north Pacific between China and North ...

High pressure slides east of NZ as storms south of the country continue, bringing in strong and windy weather to many regions ...

The polar easterlies are the dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the north and south poles towards low-pressure areas within the Westerlies at ...

Currently on China's 41st Antarctic expedition, research icebreakers Xuelong and Xuelong 2, or Snow Dragon and Snow Dragon 2, will begin to plough through the belt of prevailing westerlies ...

This is because the easterlies, which changed to westerlies with Cyclone Dana active over Bay of Bengal, may return on ...