High pressure dominates much of the country today and Thursday. However, sinking air pressure to the north of New Zealand will see rain clouds forming around Northland and later this week Auckland too.

The weekend sees areas of rain in the upper North Island although the bulk may be out at sea; northern areas are likely to be clipped by it.

We still need another day to fine tune this forecast but at the moment the weekend is likely to see rain spreading in across the North Island and later the South Island. Conditions will also warm up for those that recently had a cool down, with north to north east winds by Sunday nationwide.

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