On Sunday the north-west wind flow picks up a notch, another surge of showers moves in from the Tasman Sea to some parts of western NZ with showers here and there – large dry and sunny areas too. Rain is most likely again around the West Coast. Eastern areas are again dry for the most part.

🛰️#NewZealand's weather continues to be westerly driven this weekend and into early next week, thanks to powerful storms over the Southern Ocean. But high pressure over the northern Tasman Sea moves closer to the upper North Island.

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Monday and Tuesday kick off with a few western showers and those westerlies easing – and by Wednesday next week a high pressure zone may well be, briefly, parked over NZ bringing lighter winds and mostly dry weather.

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