It’s quite an unsettled weather pattern from Perth to Adelaide, Melbourne to New Zealand as spring-like weather from the Southern Ocean pushes through active cold fronts and lows.

With some large high pressure zones around too, it means a fair amount of variety for both NZ and Australia in the days ahead – while the tropics have a bit of a breather from recent rain – Fiji is mostly dry in the several days ahead.

NZ has generally mild weather coming in with northerlies and westerlies dominating – that will push some eastern places into the low 20s temperature-wise. Heaviest rain in NZ will be on the West Coast with up to 150mm possible in the 48 hours from 7pm tonight (Tuesday).

Australia is quite dry inland – but those towards the south coast have plenty of active weather with thunderstorms, squalls and gales over the next week. A deep low will form around Victoria later this week bringing some stormy weather to Melbourne and even Adelaide, Canberra, Sydney and Hobart all get caught up in it for a time.

We have your forecast for NZ and Australia for the rest of this week and the upcoming weekend.