Low pressure is moving into the upper North Island today and tonight and will sink southwards overnight, clearing NZ later tomorrow. With it comes a burst of strong East to North-East winds and patchy rain with pockets of heavy downpours. Keep up to date with any MetService watches and warnings.

Windy weather also affects the south-east South Island (like coastal Otago) as a windy nor’easter kicks in today due to high pressure out over the Chatham Islands and low pressure south of Stewart Island making a “squash zone” of wind.

By Friday the next polar change moves into the South-West corner of the South Island – and overnight and into Saturday morning spreads right over the South Island and may even brush Wellington and the lower North Island for a time, before clearing NZ by night time with warmer weather arriving on Sunday and into early next week.

Subtropical winds and subantarctic winds are forecast for NZ over the next 7 days.