The forecast isn’t perfectly settled but the rainmakers are taking more of a break over the weekend and for the first half of next week across a large portion of NZ and Australia.

NZ has a cool down this weekend as a fairly weak southerly flow moves in – while Oz goes the other way and sees a milder northerly returning (and both NZ and Aussie are sharing the same high pressure zone – southerlies in NZ on one side of the high, northerlies in Australia on the other).

Next week there are lot of westerlies, northerlies and easterlies in the forecast with a few showers – rainfall totals for most places are low, except the West Coast.