Powerful high pressure is moving in and over the South Island this weekend bringing more frosty nights and cold mornings around the nation.

Some cloud and showers continue in the east and south, along with a windier southerly flow. Over the weekend and early next week easterlies may well develop at the top of the North Island bringing some showers.

But later next week we may be seeing what looks more like an early spring pattern with strong westerlies moving in.

We’ll have more details about that in our Friday update and obviously early next week too.