If you’re finding the humidity unbearable – you’re not alone.  Humidity levels across the nation have lifted in recent days due to an air flow coming out of the sub-tropics.  Coupled with daytime heating the ‘feels like’ temperature is jumping several degrees above the predicted high in some areas.

“The feels like or humidex reading takes into account humidity plus heat.  It’s subjective, not everyone agrees with the readings, but the vast majority identify with the fact it’s felt more like the low 30s than the mid 20s in a number of places in recent days” says head weather analyst Philip Duncan.

But a south west change at the weekend should reset things.

Dunedin will go from 23 degrees Friday to 18 on Saturday and just 15 degrees by Sunday.

Christchurch will slide from 28 degrees Friday to 26 Saturday, but 18 on Sunday.

Hamilton in the north will go from 27 degrees on Friday to 24 Saturday and 22 by Monday with lower humidity and therefore a the feels like temperature will be closer to the predicted high.

Humidity levels will drop as the drier southerly air moves in.

A large high will roll in behind this change on Sunday and Monday bringing settled, dry and hot weather to many places – but with slightly lower humidity levels than this week.

But humidity and easterlies will both increase again in the upper North Island as we go through next week.

– WeatherWatch.co.nz