Severe gales and a significant temperature drop are coming for New Zealand, starting this Friday and peaking on Saturday.

By Sunday it’s easing and by Monday summer warmth and calm returns to NZ.

But if you’re camping or tramping the weather over the next few days will be rough at times – please keep up to date with our new Alerting App, to help you plan ahead and have fewer nasty surprises.

Next week more high pressure rolls in – but the windy westerlies in the south carry on, whilst lows in the tropics continue to hover around.

It’s a busy update today!