High pressure is bringing a ‘cocoon of calm’ to much of the country today and tomorrow but that high slips east this weekend allowing a warmer, more humid, north to north-easterly flow to kick in. This will bring more cloud and showers to eastern parts of the upper North Island this weekend with perhaps some heavy falls in the north-east going into Monday.

By Tuesday a low from the Tasman Sea moves in and brings a burst of rain and/or showers from the west.

By mid-next week a westerly flow returns. We talk about which regions are now in drought and how much rain is coming for them.