AUSTRALASIA — There’s plenty of high pressure still coming in to Australia and New Zealand over the next few weeks – but there are gaps between the highs allowing some rain makers to continue on, especially around New Zealand, Tasmania and Western Australia.

The highs will give decent stretches of dry or mainly dry weather – with lows adding wind and rain in between.

Storms south of NZ are getting larger – as you’d expect going into winter – and as the high pressure belt over NZ and Australia area breaks up a little more (and nudges further northwards) it will allow more wind westerlies to clip the south-east of Australia and across the Tasman Sea and into NZ, especially the lower North Island southwards.

There is variety in the forecast – but high pressure is, generally speaking, still the most dominant feature of the weather around Australasia.