Severe gales, heavy rain and travel disruptions are expected for NZ as a sub-tropical storm moves in to our region.

The low was named Cyclone Tam on Tuesday by the Fiji MetService, and confirmed still this afternoon by NZ’s MetService – but it’s rocketing out of the tropics so will today lose that technical “tropical cyclone” status and become subtropical. The low will get larger though as it stalls over the Tasman Sea.

Between the large storm, and a very powerful high pressure zone to our south-east, we can expect damaging winds in the upper North Island. Rain will be slow moving due to the blocking high to our east… therefore rain may linger through until next week for some regions.

We have extensive details as we go into the long Easter Weekend with pockets of severe weather around New Zealand.