High pressure briefly crosses NZ on Tuesday ahead of more downpours, isolated thunderstorms and wet weather thanks to a large low sitting in the Tasman Sea.

Due to all the high pressure surrounding this low it has a slow journey to NZ and lingers into the weekend as it morphs into a different system. There are large dry areas this week – especially in the east and south of NZ, but western and northern parts of both main islands have the risk of some heavy rain and thunderstorms (possibly severe).

We have your NZ forecast (+ 7 day rainfall) through until Sunday.