It’s not looking too risky weatherwise on Tuesday – with a clearing southwesterly airflow making way for a large system of high pressure meaning things stay pretty settled for most of the country.

It’s a cool start though in places – with several inland and sheltered parts of both islands starting the day off in the low single digits.
Temperatures (as of 5:30am):

• Taupo: -1.3C (feels like -3C!)
• Auckland: 8.1C
• Wellington: 4C (feels like -1C)
• Nelson: 2.7C

A few snow flurries down as low as 400m in Banks Peninsula on the east coast of the South Island should clear by afternoon, leaving a mostly settled day around New Zealand.

– Aaron Wilkinson & Drew Chappell, WeatherWatch.co.nz

– Photo: Michael Raymakers