Low pressure is covering the North Island for Wednesday then departs slowly on Thursday to the east as high pressure returns to the country.

High pressure then moves in for the end of the week and into the weekend – with a warmer/hotter nor’west flow on Saturday, followed by a cooler southerly for some in the south on Sunday.

Next week kicks off with more high pressure – we look at what is going on in the tropics, Australia and the Southern Ocean.

We also have a very general nationwide weekend surf/wave forecast as we track some of the swells moving in – thanks to PredictWind.