The high over NZ moves east today and sees a few showers around the North Island. Track on rain radar today along with our hourly forecast data, so you can monitor it accurately – as it’s a messy set up. Most places are dry.

As the high shifts east, a hotter nor’west flow comes in behind it – starting in the lower South Island and Cook Strait areas today and building further into Saturday.

A cold front will slowly move up NZ this weekend and into Monday, falling apart as it does so. It could bring 15 to 30mm to western areas and 5 to 10mm to eastern areas. Check your local WeatherWatch and RuralWeather forecast for rainfall estimates. Our new alerting app isn’t so accurate with showers – but is useful with cold fronts like this one for alerting you to 10mm or 20mm etc.

Some severe weather is possible in the South Island.

⚡️Spot the cold front heading towards #NewZealand this weekend. Fun fact: Parts of Tasmania were over 36c yesterday (well above their normal). 🌡️Some eastern parts of NZ will be in the upper 20s and possibly lower 30s ahead of the cold front. pic.twitter.com/wAFgKGlxPI

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) February 22, 2024

🌀⛓️🌀A chain link fence of low pressure in the tropics.

Each low "steals" energy from the one nearest it, so no tropical cyclone risk in a set-up like this. Just a lot of thundery wet weather in the tropics. High pressure in the NZ area is keeping it up there, not down here. pic.twitter.com/7r4MyGB5io

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) February 22, 2024

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Additional Weather Maps most helpful at the moment are…

• Cumulative Rainfall next 7 days
• Animated Wind
• Temperatures

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• WeatherWatch.co.nz / RuralWeather.co.nz / New App