We have no weather video today, back on Wednesday — High pressure remains over NZ for Tuesday and with this anticyclone centred over the Tasman Sea it’s encouraging a westerly flow into the country.

RAIN
From a rain perspective there is not much around on Tuesday the western North Island, including Auckland, may get a few small, brief, showers off the Tasman Sea, caught up in the south-west flow. The only other part of NZ to get wet weather today is Fiordland. Elsewhere looks dry but an isolated shower might occur further inland. With the exception of Stewart Island and West Coast, the rest of NZ is drier than average over the coming 7 days due to so much high pressure.

WIND:
Winds today are also mostly light around New Zealand. We still have a south-west flow over the North Island – dragging in cloud and maybe those light showers off the Tasman Sea. But further southwards over the lower South Island those winds tilt more north-west today and that is helping to lift temperatures slightly.

Westerly to northerly winds are going to pick up in the coming days, then looks to turn strong southerly for places like Wellington late week.

TEMPERATURES
Temperatures are up slightly in Southland and Otago, then Canterbury. You’ll notice daytime highs are up a degree or two, and overnight lows jump upwards tonight or tomorrow night as those westerly quarter winds move over the Southern Alps, pick up and warm up slightly.

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