A humid week is on the way across much of the North Island and western South Island as a northerly flow develops.

The North Island can expect a warm, dry week - bad for farmers but good for everyone else.

Weather in the North Island is expected to remain clear and dry till the end of the month - but be prepared for a muggy summer.

Ahhh the smells of summer are in the air already. I'm not talking about Spring either. Not the smell of daffodils or the strong scent from citrus trees.

I was having a discussion with someone the other day who predicts the weather in more of an alternative way than I do and was claiming that winter is still well and truly with us.

Holidaymakers have long, sunny days to look forward to this Labour weekend as a large high makes its way across the country.

A typhoon roaring in on the Philippines is amongst the most powerful ever recorded - and bigger than Katrina.

Most of NZ should warm up after yesterday's bitterly cold snap but a southerly is still predicted to bring heavy rain to some areas today.

The weather isn't always a headline maker but it certainly affects us more than many of the news stories that we read about each day.

The icy southerly sweeping up the North Island has brought snow to the hills around Waikato and the Bay of Plenty and in some paddocks.