Frosty starts and sunny days forecast across NZ this week.

Focus Live: Weather update - Rain and wind to continue for many across NZ

Focus Live: Tornado touches down in Far North as severe weather lashes the North Island

"There is a lot of heavy rain around."

Good news is the weather is meant to be clearing with a high of 21 degrees

Blenheim was tracking towards 30C today.

Uncertainty looms over the tropical cyclone - but dust off the brollies anyway.

The twister was captured by local resident Alesha Plew as she and her husband were driving along State Highway 1 north of Ashburton.

A chilling southerly breeze is making its way up the country.

Chance of a tropical cyclone sweeping through Tonga and Fiji on Easter Monday.

A second round of thunderstorms are brewing after yesterday's downpours

It may be snow-go for some motorists this week, with white stuff on the way.

Dire weather is predicted across the North Island as the remnants of Debbie make landfall.

Virtually no region in the North Island will escape the torrential rains.

Summer is expected to end with a roar as thunderstorms roll across the upper North Island.

A weak cold front will bring cloud, drizzle and showers to the country over the next few days but should clear in time for New Year celebrations.

With just a few days until Christmas holidaymakers across the country are wondering what the weather will serve on come Sunday. For the definitive lowdown Tristram Clayton is joined for the last time this year by Philip Duncan from WeatherWatch.

Unsettled weather continues this week with windy westerlies and passing showers. A brief period of hot weather arrives mid week before a cooler change arrives on Thursday and Friday.

A surge of wind, rain then showers and sun are on the way for the country this weekend and into next week. It's an unsettled forecast across New Zealand for at least the next five days. Driest/warmest in the north east of NZ, wettest on the West Coast and windiest in the east and central areas.

It's felt like summer in many places this week but the next few days get colder in the south and wetter and windier in the north and east. Nothing too dramatic in the forecast but the settled pattern is coming to a temporary end.

This week sees a real variety of temperatures and weather - from highs near 30 degrees to a wet cool southerly - and more heat and sun beyond that.

Thunderstorms are expected to hit some parts of the North Island today and tomorrow before temperatures soar to low-30s in some parts of New Zealand later this week.

The first weekend of December is here and the forecast shows plenty of light winds but also afternoon downpours. Next week rain and some wind returns - but don't fret, high pressure returns later next week across NZ.

A very large area of high pressure is moving in across the entire country. This means calm conditions will prevail for the next several days in most regions.

The signs of summer are among us with pohutakawa trees flowering already and forecasters say the official first day of the season on Thursday will be calm and dry.

Windy weather over the weekend and Monday will gradually ease this week, with high pressure dominating New Zealand by December 1st.

Windy westerlies blow through on Saturday making for hot weather in some eastern areas, but by Sunday and Monday a colder, windier and wetter change sweeps over the entire nation.

After sunny hot and settled weather in many regions this week spring is reminding us on Friday and this weekend that it isn't finished with New Zealand just yet.