Mainly anticyclonic conditions across New Zealand on Wednesday bringing mainly settled weather.

Mostly sunny for the upper / western North Island on Wednesday, some high cloud from afternoon in the west. Gisborne sees the risk of a shower in the morning then about the ranges of Hawkes Bay / Gisborne later in the afternoon watch for the chance of an isolated shower.

The South Island is mainly dry with some high cloud, morning cloud about Canterbury breaks away. A few drizzle patches about Fiordland.

By Weather Analyst Aaron Wilkinson – WeatherWatch.co.nz