High pressure is covering thew Tasman Sea area for much of this week with NZ on the edges of it. This means more cloud in the west and a couple of cold fronts on the way.

This early Autumn/El Nino weather pattern is quite normal – but sadly it limits how much wet weather can get into the driest regions.

Whilst the tropics are busy with more lows, none of these low pressure zones are forecast by WeatherWatch.co.nz to reach NZ this week, or come anywhere near us.

This is due to controlling high air pressure in the NZ area – something we forecast would be the main feature this month in our recent March ClimateWatch video/update.

We have your forecast around NZ and parts of Australasia through until Sunday.