Many regions have settled weather at the moment with frosts as far north as Auckland this morning, but still some showers in eastern Northland and from about Mahia Peninsula to East Cape. Those showers will continue to ease further over the next couple of days.

In the South Island the frosts will become less noticeable in the coming days as a warmer north to north-west flow develops, ahead of heavy West Coast rain later on Friday and into Saturday. Snow will likely develop on the ranges and lower to a few hundred metres (maybe lower) going into Sunday and next week.

The cold front moves into the North Island on Sunday and Monday then low pressure is expected to stall around the North Island going into next week. This may drag down subtropical rain for eastern NZ (today’s update shows it affecting Canterbury – but this may change) and where that rain meets polar air there may be pockets of heavy snow around the mountains of Canterbury and Marlborough.