A colder start to Wednesday but high pressure is crossing the country over the next day or two, bringing settled weather into the South Island and western North Island in particular. However westerly winds out of Australia do return in the days ahead pushing temperatures back up – ahead of the next cold front this weekend.

The next cold front isn’t as significant as the one we’ve just had – but it will bring in cloud, showers and patchy areas of rain over the coming weekend.

Next week, a low east of the North Island and a high west of NZ may bring in some wind, rain and showers for a time – especially in the North Island. We’ll have more details about that in our Thursday weather video.

Programming Notes:

• Australia 7 Day Forecast is brought forward one day to today, so we can cover the cyclone – you can view today’s Australia video here.
• We have NO weather video this FRIDAY (Jan 26th).