High pressure is moving in to NZ, or at least trying to, with it likely parking itself over the Tasman Sea this weekend and across much of next week.

The weather over NZ will become largely dry this weekend and across next week.

But later next week – and going into the long weekend – we could be seeing the next surge of spring gales, western and southern rain, and a chance of severe weather warnings.

We have your long range forecast + the 8 day rainfall map thanks to Farmlands.