A large high over us is already starting to slip away and we have some windier, showery, weather on the way for the end of the week. Next week we’re looking at a potential sub-tropical low – which we will continue to update you on over the coming week.
Don’t worry – the headline is about as severe as it gets this week, nothing like last week! The first low will affect northern NZ over Monday and Tuesday while at the same time a high rolls up the South Island with a return to frosts for some. Wednesday the high covers all of the nation but by Thursday the next Tasman Sea low will be pushing in to the West Coast.
A very windy week is on the way next week for the nation as a storm near Antarctica pushes against a large high north of New Zealand. The result will be gale for westerlies which may reaching damaging strengths around Tuesday in the South Island and Wednesday in the North Island. This weekend sees a combination of sun and warmth along with winds and showers.
The brief and predicted cold snap is moving up NZ today and on Thursday will start to ease. By Friday a strengthening westerly flow will develop – turning into storm by Tuesday or Wednesday with severe gales possible in central and eastern areas. The westerly flow will likely last for 8 days and is the first full scale westerly flow of the season.
Spring is here and the weather couldn’t be more spring-like if it tried! Stunning, sunny and warm weather for some people today – but wintry showers with snow and hail possible Wednesday and Thursday before a windy and mild weekend arrives. Welcome to Spring 2013.
Spring officially kicks off on Sunday, September 1st, here in New Zealand and over in Australia – but don’t expect a dramatic change in the weather. In fact August’s weather and temperatures may well continue on into September. As for this weekend – conditions look fairly settled with the exception of the North Island’s east coast.
A short cold snap is pushing into the South Island Wednesday PM and across Thursday bringing some hail and heavy showers – but it will be clearing by Friday as a large high rolls in from the west.
Showers, mostly for western and southern parts of the country, will dominate this week – with a cool southerly change arriving in the Deep South on Wednesday afternoon and reaching Wellington by Thursday morning. However it may not impact the upper North Island where the 5th consecutive weekend low is expected to develop.
The final full weekend of August is here and the forecast matches all the other August weekends! In other words a mix of sun and rain, cloudy and clear skies. In short – the South Island’s east coast will be sunniest and driest – northern and western areas of New Zealand will be cloudier and wetter.
The fourth low in four weekends will again affect northern New Zealand with rain or showers starting Saturday night and lingering into Sunday. The low isn’t expected to bring severe weather but is a continuation of the unsettled weather pattern we’ve seen all August. Most places will have a mix of sun and rain.
Nothing too extreme this week for New Zealand – not overly warm or cold, not overly wet or dry and not overly sunny or cloudy! A bit of everything over the days ahead with the chance of a 4th consecutive weekend low for upper New Zealand.
This weekend's low is going to bring another mix of spring weather with cloud, rain, drizzle, showers, sun, wind and calm! The low is deepening today, Friday, and will slowly weaken over the weekend as it crosses Auckland and northern NZ. The low brings a variety of weather across the country over the weekend, depending on where you are and when you're there. Temperatures look mild yet again for most places with no snow or frosts in the forecast.
Another weekend and yet another low will be affecting much of the North Island’s weather. Friday looks to be the wettest day for the North Island but the centre of the low will lie over Auckland on Saturday. Sunday looks drier for most places – but eastern areas from Dunedin to Gisborne may still be cloudy with nor’easters wet at times.
We hardly had a winter this year and now the spring weather pattern has arrived early. The week ahead looks spring-like with a number of fronts, lows and highs. WeatherWatch.co.nz also has the forecast for the rest of August – including the chances of snow at our main ski fields.
A repeat performance is on the cards weather-wise this weekend as another sub-tropical low moves in. Yet again the rain may be 50/50 for some northern areas but the odds of rain falling are just a little bit higher than last weekend. By Sunday windier weather kicks in for many northern areas while the South Island has calmer, drier, weather for the most part.
The weekend will be at least partly wet for most of the country, forecasters said this morning.
Warm early spring weather continues over the country with some parts of Hawkes Bay reaching 20 degrees on Tuesday – and possibly again on Weds and Thurs. However by Saturday a new sub-tropical low is forming and may bring rain to northern NZ – but just like last weekend the winds may tilt south east which is like a reverse Canterbury nor’wester for places like Auckland and Waikato.
Head weather analyst Philip Duncan is here with your forecast for the start of the week.
Conditions around NZ have cooled down a little bit this week but for the most part most regions are still mild considering we're in the depths of winter. Now we see even warmer weather coming as northerlies start to develop next week.
A low near Antarctica will fire up some cold air over southern New Zealand for the next couple of days with showers moving up the entire western coastline. Eastern areas, for the most part, will be sunny with temperatures bouncing back up in most regions this weekend as a high moves in. However, like the last high, we may get more cloudy weather in the west.
The weather is fairly quiet this week with a couple of fronts moving up the South Island bringing rain to the west and a colder south to west change around mid-week. The week ends cooler but the weekend should see another high rolling in, bringing calm weather to the North Island especially, and mild sunny weather in the east of the South Island.
Warm wind from the north or north west are expected to boost temperatures in eastern New Zealand to between 15 and 20 degrees this weekend – a huge change from a week ago when we were forecasting snow to near sea level. Rain or showers may affect the South Island’s West Coast and if you live in the North Island’s west, like Auckland, there will be plenty more cloud – but that means mild weather, especially overnight where temperatures are currently well above average.
Warmer weather conditions are greeting some New Zealander’s at the moment as the wind flow changes from southerlies to westerlies. A large high is in charge, for now, bringing light winds and cloudy weather to the west. A new low is coming though, with rain and wind arriving in the South Island later this weekend.
Settled weather is going to return and the warm will too as the week goes on. The high will bring a few frosts but a westerly wind will also form over the South Island as the week goes on. By this weekend a deepening – and large – low will be forming near Tasmania and could start to affect NZ as early as Sunday, then spreading over NZ next week.
Another southerly snap is coming with snow forecast to low levels around the South Island as Sunday goes on, then into the North Island later Sunday and into Monday. For the North Island snow is likely to be above 300 or 400m but will be accompanied by a very cold and strong southerly.
New Zealand’s weather is mostly being split in two for the next few days as a low stalls over the North Island and a high moves in over the South. Cloud and rain will affect the eastern North Island with some heavy falls. Meanwhile in the South Island frosty conditions will remain under a ridge of high pressure. By Sunday a southerly change should spread up across the entire country.
A colder south west flow pushes across the country this week. Temps drop to more normal levels for mid-winter. A high moves in on Wednesday for the South Island while a low will dominate much of northern NZ from Weds through until the weekend.
Windy westerlies again surge northwards across most of the country this weekend with more heavy rain along the West Coast. But by late Sunday and into Monday and Tuesday a colder south west change will spread up NZ – and by Wednesday expect a frosty high to move in to the South Island.
Conditions for some parts of New Zealand over the next few days will be windy – which will help boost temperatures into the mid to late teens for some. Overnight lows will also be in double digits for some areas. However on Monday the warmer winds turn cooler sou’west – with that flow last a few days into next week.
Westerly winds from the Roaring Forties will dominate the South Island and lower North Island’s weather next week, while a high will bring mostly settled weather for the upper North Island – ending next week with northerlies. The mild week ahead reduces the chances of frosts nationwide – but it will be a very cold this Saturday for a number of inland regions of both islands with heavy frosts in Central Otago.
The weather over the next few days is changeable – with a sub-tropical low predicted to bring some rain to the Far North while a weak surge of cold air pushes up the east coast of NZ. However the weekend is looking mostly settled, apart from a few showers. We take a look at the next several days ahead – as well as the start of July.
Head weather analyst Philip Duncan has your weather forecast and says there is calmer weather on the way.
Heavy snow is now falling through central parts of the South Island and the snow level will continue to fall over the next 24 hours, with snow – possibly heavy – falling to sea level across the South Island’s southern and eastern coastlines. We have the latest on the North Island too, where heavy showers are now pushing into western and central areas – and gales, hail and thunder are also in the forecast.
A significant winter storm is set to bring severe weather to both islands of New Zealand over the next 72 hours. Starting in the Deep South on Weds, heading up the South Island on Thurs and then the North Island across Friday and early Saturday morning – we have the latest…