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A ridge covers the country today extending out from an anticyclone in the Tasman Sea, this brings mainly settled weather. Still, there is a bit of weather going on around the edges. Showers clearing this morning about the east coast of the North Island while at the other end of the country and approaching front about the far south brings rain later in the day to Fiordland and then Southland overnight.
Bay Of Plenty, Waikato & Central North Island
Eastern North Island
die out by evening.
Western North Island
southerlies dying out, winds may tend light westerly in the afternoon. About
northern Taranaki expect sunny skies with southerly winds, easing in the
evening.
Wellington
winds from afternoon.
Nelson
Marlborough
Canterbury
northwest inland.
West Coast
westerlies. Rain moves into Fiordland in the evening.
Coastal Otago
evening high cloud moves in.
Central Otago
Overnight a few spells of rain move in.
Southland
freshening. Overnight winds change westerly with showers.
By Weather Analyst Aaron Wilkinson – WeatherWatch.co.nz
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