In our extended outlook today we track two subtropical storms, one that will likely miss most of NZ while the other may have a more direct impact. The second subtropical low is over a week away, so cannot be locked in yet due to some very powerful high pressure in the NZ area leading up to then (high pressure alters the tracking of lows).

In fact despite the first low bringing some wet weather over the next two days in the north-east corner of the North Island, along with some patchy rain/showers move up the western South Island from a weak cold front, most of the country still leans drier over the coming several days.

So all eyes will be on that next subtropical low to bring some much wanted rain into dry regions. We may not be able to lock this in this week – but in tomorrow/Thursday’s update we’ll take another look. Might as well go longer range when the weather here is fairly settled going into the weekend and the start of next week.

Progamming Note:
– Phil is offscreen today due to other work comittments, he’ll be back tomorrow/Thursday as usual.
– Apologies if any visual or audio differences today.