Damaging wind gusts and heavy rain will continue to affect some parts of the North Island and brushing Marlborough today as a low remains just to the north of the country. Coupled with incoming high pressure further south it’s encouraging a very strong southerly wind through Wellington, Cook Strait, Whanganui and over Taranaki, with parts of Auckland and Northland also affected.

This weekend the low moves east/north east of NZ and will bring further rain and showers to the eastern North Island from East Cape to Wairarapa, and should clear from coastal Marlborough.

High pressure builds next week and eventually brings dry weather and light winds to most of NZ, before looking to slide east of NZ by next weekend.