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…
If you’ve found winter to be mild so far – get ready for a shock. A blast of polar air directly off the Antarctic ice shelf, near Scott Base, is going to roar across the country starting in the Deep South this Wednesday then spreading across the entire country over Thursday and Friday. Expect road closures, flight delays and possible ferry delays. Winter has finally arrived.
A large but sluggish Tasman Sea low is moving in towards New Zealand bringing a change to northerlies and rain. Rain looks to be heaviest on Sunday for northern and western areas with a chance of thunder even. At the same time cold easterlies will become even colder for eastern and southern parts of the South Island this weekend and into next week.
The cold snap is still coming – but latest computer models show a high east of NZ is likely to slow everything down – with rain clouds moving in this weekend, then a colder sou’west change for all of NZ is expected by mid to late next week. We also update you on weather conditions for Fieldays at Mystery Creek, Hamilton.
The week ahead will see mostly settled weather as a high moves in over the North Island and parts of the South. However by this weekend a large high over Tasmania will combine with a low south east of NZ – often the perfect set up for a cold southerly across the entire country.
It might be Winter now but the weather pattern looks stuck on Autumn mode with changeable conditions this weekend. Rain, heavy at times, will move up the West Coast on Saturday then into the North Island on Sunday. Eastern areas of both islands should be mostly dry, but northern New Zealand looks wet or showery on Sunday.
A colder south to south east wind flow is moving up the North Island over Wednesday and Thursday – as a high pushes over the South Island bringing more frosts. The high will push into the North Island by the end of the week then by the weekend the wind flow shifts more west to north west – bringing back warmer weather for many regions, although rain is predicted to move up the West Coast.
The North Island looks likely to see cloud and fog patches but the lightest winds, driest weather and warmest air is likely to be over the North Island. Nor’westers will build around the lower North Island though, and indication that gusty winds are affecting eastern areas of the South Island while the weekend starts off wet on the West Coast before a cold southerly change pushes into the Deep South on Queens Birthday Monday.
Our cold change hit, the country shivered and now the weather pattern is already swinging back to more Autumn like weather. This weekend we have a mixture of weather, from sun and calm weather to gales, heavy rain and even snow again.
Winter has arrived…even if only for two days. A short, sharp, burst of cold air from near the Antarctic ice shelf looks set to bring snow to sea level in the South Island and may affect roads and air travel for a time. Temperatures nationwide are also set to take a big hit for the next few days.
Weather analyst Philip Duncan lets us know what to expect in terms of weather this weekend which is shaping up to be a wet one.
A complex low pressure system (in other words, one that brings a variety of weather) is moving in and has already brought a wet Friday to some parts of western NZ. Over the next week the low will slowly move towards and across the country bringing a real mix of weather, from periods of rain, to just a few showers, or long sunny dry spells. A forecaster's nightmare!
A large low pressure system looks set to bring several days of unsettled weather – by that we don’t mean several days of rain, but instead a messy forecast with cloud, rain, showers and dry spells all in the mix for the weekend and week ahead.