Here’s what is making the weather headlines today….

SNOW FLURRIES LOW IN THE SOUTH

The air is quite cold for the far south today, snow flurries are therefore reasonably low. Down to 300m this morning, lifting a touch to 400m this afternoon. Precipitation rates are not overly high though so heavy snow isn’t likely but this will still affect higher roads. Southland is most affected, Otago not so much especially as one travels further north.

Check out information from Metservice on our warnings page here.

The map below shows temperatures at 850hpa (1440m high up in the atmosphere) of around -6 Degrees Celsius, indicative of the snow levels mentioned above.

FROSTY MORNINGS

Frosty mornings are likely for the next three days. More on our temperature page here.

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RAIN OUTLOOK

Rainfall over the next seven days is looking patchy. It’s a good mix of below average rainfall, average rainfall and above average rainfall for different parts of the country.

The map below runs from today through to Monday 14th August. Blue coloring means that part of the country is likely to see more rainfall than would normally be expected at this time of year, red means less rainfall is expected and white is an average amount of rainfall. The more intense either red or blue then either scenario is more true.