A south west change means much of New Zealand is cooler today but despite the cold change most main centres have normal temperatures for this time of year, showing how much milder than normal it has been lately in many regions.

Colder weather has been spreading up the South Island for the past two days and while today is cool it should be sunnier and a little warmer than Saturday was.

But, most of the North Island is cooler today than Saturday was.

To get more details or to make sense of the maps below for your specific location, please visit www.RuralWeather.co.nz – it has the most weather data on earth for NZ.

• WeatherWatch.co.nz and RuralWeather.co.nz