We’re well into the first week of December, almost the second week, and the weather forecast is a mix of an incoming summer one and an outgoing spring one.

For the next week we see a real variety in temperatures – as high as 30 degrees in parts of Hawke’s Bay but over 15 degrees cooler than that in parts of the South Island.

The next 10 days are busy weatherwise – here’s the latest with Philip Duncan and the NZ Herald…