North Island:  Cloudy.  South Island:  Sunny.  Two very different set ups this morning across New Zealand as cloud from a front and developing low drapes over the North Island while skies clear across the South Island.

The low, which is developing north of New Zealand, may bring heavy rain to parts of East Cape and Gisborne today and overnight.

Meanwhile a high moving in from from the west will bring light winds and sunny weather to the South Island today with frosts possible in sheltered places tonight.

In the North Island heavy rain will continue to spread across Central Plateau and Taupo this morning and east across northern Hawkes Bay, Gisborne and East Cape.  Sunny spells should develop in other North Island places although from about Auckland or southern Northland northwards cloudy conditions may reform as that low deepens north of the country pushing cloud southwards.

The low is forecast to drift east and weaken and will not be a major feature.

As of 10:30am it was 15 in Auckland, the warmest centre in the country, 3 in Waiouru, the coldest North Island centre while the South Island has a strange contrast with 11 degrees right along the West Coast being the warmest region but the coldest spot is Milford only a little further south with 2.

The windiest part of the country is the lower North Island.