Christmas Day will be hot and steamy, with rain forecast for the North Island while dry in the south.

Evan looks set to bring some wet weather for Christmas Day and perhaps a wet Boxing Day too - however a big chunk of NZ will have sunny weather, especially the South Island.

Evan is no longer a tropical cyclone but remains a potent low packed with tropical moisture. While the low is expected to cross the North Island it is still predicted to fizzle out around Christmas Day.

We track Tropical Cyclone Evan's track to NZ and finally a look at how Christmas Day is shaping up.

Severe tropical cyclone Evan will slowly clear Fiji and returns to the open waters of the Pacific as it heads directly south towards the Upper North Island. Evan is expected to linger over the upper North Island of New Zealand this Saturday, Sunday and Monday then fizzle out over/near the North Island on Christmas Day.

Thousands of people have taken shelter in Fiji as Tropical Cyclone Evan batters the area with winds of up to 185km/h in a top-of-the-scale category five cyclone.

As a large high remains draped across New Zealand it's now producing a few heat showers in the afternoons. But it's in the tropics where all the action is happening - a potential tropical cyclone may directly hit Fiji on Sunday and Monday and we track it's progress including any risks to New Zealand.

A large high this week will hover over New Zealand while the first tropical cyclone of the season may be about to form near Fiji this coming weekend.

A number of lows and rain bands will this week bring plenty of rain to the north and west of New Zealand - however not everyone in the east will be seeing much rain. Week two of summer looks drier but today Philip Duncan walks you through the rain bands coming in this week.

Summer kicks off this weekend in New Zealand and the weather will be as confused as the public - with some areas receiving snow and potential frosts while others soar into the late 20s. We have rain back in the forecast again, especially for the north, west and south - and we have more summerlike weather in the long range forecast too.

The spring pattern continues across New Zealand bringing a few weak fronts. However this weekend the spring pattern will strengthen - with more wind and cloud but also pushing in some hot winds to the east for the official start of summer on Saturday.

The last week of spring 2012 is here, we bring you the latest forecast for the week ahead plus take a look at the expected weather for the first weekend of summer.

A large high is giving NZ some protection from the rain clouds this weekend. While a few showers may pop up here and there, especially in Southland, the forecast for New Zealand is for mostly dry weather is cloudy periods in the mix too.

Apart from a few coastal showers the rest of November is looking fairly dry - Philip Duncan takes a look at where the highs are sitting and where the rainmakers lie.

Sunnier this week but still some rain: After an unsettled weekend it looks as though high pressure will dominate NZ this week - however rain will try to move in from both the north and south as the week progresses.

This week we'll see a mix of average temperatures, plenty of cloudy and a few rainy spells in there too - all ahead of a large low pressure system expected to move in from the west this weekend.

The 2012/13 South Pacific cyclone season is upon us and for the next 6 months the activity north of New Zealand will start to increase.

Shivering camper Gregor Richardson took this video of snow at St Bathans on Saturday after unwisely deciding to take his caravan to Central Otago at the weekend.

As New York and the East coast of the USA recovers from the Superstorm Sandy, this fantastic time-lapse video was posted to YouTube by SMvideoChan.

Head weather analyst Philip Duncan talks with Steven Orsbourn of nzherald.co.nz via Skype from Atlanta, U.S. on the current situation of Hurricane'Sandy which is set to hit the Northeast coast of the U.S. covering a massive 1600km.

WeatherWatch analyst Phillip Duncan is in the United States watching the development of Hurricane Sandy - ready to cover what could be a once in a lifetime weather event.

Some models are indicating a Tasman Sea low could trigger more rain for NZ this weekend. We take a look at the weather for the remainder of the short week and last weekend of October. We also look a 'weather bomb' that is about to hit a large portion of Russia - and that says something about its size!

A tropical low is set to miss us, a southerly gets stopped in its tracks - for a change NZ isn't in the middle of the severe weather, although some rough weather may still impact the lower half of the South Island.