Most places are dry over the weekend ahead – and next week too, as high pressure crosses NZ and dominates.  It’s a change from the wet and windy weather New Zealand has had lately.

We have your NZ forecast through to Thursday one week from today.

Programming Notes:

* We have no NZ or Australia video on Friday due to a day-long planned power outage by Vector for where our studio is.

**Our AUGUST ClimateWatch update will be issued early on Friday morning, covering the Big Picture weather forecast going through August. Have a great weekend!

🇳🇿🌊3:30pm Thursday – #Tsunami advisory update: "due to rebounding tsunami activity from South America, the east coast of both the North and South Islands and the Chatham Islands remain under a National Advisory, and are likely to remain so overnight" – NZ Civil Defence. pic.twitter.com/B65owcCUNZ

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) July 31, 2025