Summer may have spluttered into gear on Sunday for some people but make no mistake hotter weather is moving in already.  The next few days see a high departing to the Pacific – and as usual in this set up, we have a northerly flow pushing down over the country.

Coupled with this will be a small sub-tropical low, helping to feed in humid winds from the northerly quarter.

Rain this week will be patchy and again, like last week, it will be ‘hit and miss’.

“Farmers and those who rely on rain water still need plenty more rain in the upper North Island as last week failed to deliver soaking rains to the majority of those who need it most” says head weather analyst Philip Duncan.  “This weaker low will bring even less rain overall but farmers in the northern half of the North Island will be exposed to heavy isolated downpours from late Tuesday to Thursday”.

Meanwhile a seperate and bigger low will push near the South Island by the end of the week – with a hot nor’wester ahead of it.  The low may well miss the majority of regions rainwise but the strong winds will push temperatures inland and out east up to the late 20s, possibly early 30s by Friday and then eastern areas of the North Island across Friday and Saturday.

WeatherWatch.co.nz is predicting a drier month ahead overall – meaning the demand for rain makers will likely increase as we head towards Christmas.

WeatherWatch.co.nz will keep a close eye on future rain makers and continue the daily conversation over the summer months via our connections with CountryTV, Fonterra, NIWA and various regional authorities.

– Image / File, Claud Therond

– WeatherWatch.co.nz