It’s been a very unsettled period lately weatherwise, with tornadoes in the South Island and isolated hail and thunderstorms.

The colder southerly is being replaced by a warmer, windier, westerly – but more southerlies are coming as the ‘spring-like’ pattern continues this week.

We take a look at the weather for the rest of this week.

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