Temperatures will drop nationwide by the end of this weekend, but Saturday be hot in the eastern North Island. The cold front clears away quickly on Sunday and Monday with high pressure rolling in over NZ bringing traditional summer weather back for next week.

A new tropical cyclone has also formed near Vanuatu. It’s a messy system and at the time of recording this it hadn’t officially been named by the Fiji Met Service – but that has no impact on the maps or forecasts in the video.

The cyclone is lower end but may directly cross Port Vila. There is still a lot of uncertainty in the tropics due to the really large low pressure zone stretching thousands of kilometres from the Coral Sea west of Vanuatu to east of Tahiti.

There’s a high risk of cyclone development next week anywhere from about Fiji to Samoa.