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Sequence of fronts

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This movie is compiled from satellite images of New Zealand over several days. It shows a series of cloud bands or fronts crossing New Zealand from the west. They are often separated by periods of cloudless anticyclones.

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Erick Brenstrum, Weather – Highs – anticyclones, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/7748/sequence-of-fronts (accessed 3 June 2026).

Story by Erick Brenstrum, published 2 March 2009.