Snow on the southern ranges, a windier south to south-west change moving into NZ, rain around the South Island and mild winds ahead of it all for the North Island. In a nutshell that’s Wednesday’s set up.

Canterbury gets some patchy wet weather in this forecast,

The coldest of the air slides east of NZ, but cooler air will move over the North Island by Thursday.

Check your hourly WeatherWatch or RuralWeather forecasts for work out start, peak and end times for wind, wet weather or temperature changes. Also expected rainfall totals.

The South Island is most exposed to this autumnal change – but the North Island will get the left overs later Wednesday night and into Thursday.

Thursday and Friday have a windier sou-west flow across New Zealand.

Keep up to date with any official Warnings & Watches here.

☔️A cold front is moving in to the North Island this afternoon.
💨Windy westerlies are blowing across the North Island.
🥶A colder southerly is moving up the South Island.
🌀An unrelated (but obvious!) low pressure zone churns just offshore to NZ's east (moving away).#Autumn🍂 pic.twitter.com/gTPx874MC7

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