High pressure drifts into NZ next few days but storms next week will bring severe weather to parts of southern Australia and New Zealand as a last minute Autumn blast makes way to a wintry change (as we transition from Autumn to Winter on the meteorological calendar).

The forecast is a busy one, talking about dangerous seas and large high pressure this week, then stormy weather going into next week with warm nor’westers and wintry southerlies across NZ, the Tasman Sea and New Zealand.