High pressure is the main feature of New Zealand’s weather this week, the upcoming weekend and likely kicking off next week too. It means that regions that are already dry will get drier as rainfall drops below normal for this time of year in most places.

A weak cold front comes in on Wednesday and Thursday, but brings very little rain to most places – outside of Fiordland and South Westland.

A few showers today also kick off the working week in Auckland, Northland and Southland – most other regions are dry.

A subtropical low this week (east of the North Island) may also drag in some cloud and a few showers to the eastern North Isand.

We show you what is controlling New Zealand’s weather this week – and how it fits in to the “orderly” set-up we forecast two weeks ago in our March ClimateWatch (monthly) outlook.