A cold front moved up NZ on Sunday and now the next cold front is, well, ‘hot’ on its heels. Temperatures today will rebound a little but it may be cloudy/gloomy for many places still, especially to begin with.

The map below shows pale blue shading over the North Island today, much of that will be drizzly showers that fall before dawn. Most places should become dry today.

But Southland will tonight see the next cold front coming in. Invercargill should get up to 17 or 18 today, but the high tomorrow is only around 11 degrees. Dunedin is around 17 today, then a high of 12 on Tuesday. Christchurch will be sunny this afternoon with a high into the low 20s, but only 14 on Tuesday as the cold front moves through with some wet weather.

Maps most relevant today are…

• Live Rain Radar
• Animated Temperature Maps

See your local hourly & 10 day forecast at WeatherWatch.co.nz – or for more details and event planning visit RuralWeather.co.nz for the most detailed and hyper-local forecasts in NZ.

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• It’s possible further updates will be added to this Newsfeed today, please check back for updates.
• Our next 7 Day NZ-only Video outlook is out today by lunchtime.
• We have a special Video Update today on Cyclone Jasper at WeatherWatchTV on YouTube by lunchtime today (For Northern Queensland).

🚨📺Category2️⃣ Tropical #CycloneJasper.

Hamilton Island / Whitsundays already have sustained winds at 65kmh gusting 85kmh (Cat 1 intensity).

Landfall may still be over 48 hours away to the north around #Cairns on Wednesday.https://t.co/gb7E1quzdb pic.twitter.com/EjvUDWNPVA

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) December 11, 2023

#CycloneJasper now Category 1, weakened by high pressure towards NZ & over the Tasman Sea.#Jasper is likely to track slowly into #Queensland, taking another 2 to 3 days to do so and in that time may power back up to Category 2.

Increasingly looks like a #rain event. #Fnq #Qld pic.twitter.com/qOMTrD63Lr

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) December 10, 2023