The weather may not be perfect but mostly settled conditions are expected this week as a very wide high slips in from Australia.

The anticyclone is wide but not very tall – meaning central, eastern and inland areas should have a mostly sunny, calm week but the very top and bottom of the country should have more of a mixture of weather on the edge of this high.

Low cloud is trapped along western areas today affecting Auckland, Waikato and down towards Taranaki.

In Southland cool winds from the westerly quarter will dominate for the next couple of days bringing a couple of showers and cool weather, but the weather should bounce back to sunny and settled later in the week.

Meanwhile it’s the opposite weather at the other end of the country with easterlies building around the middle of the week and rain clouds developing by the end of the week as the high starts to weaken over the north and a low tries to move in.

– WeatherWatch.co.nz