Here’s what is making the weather headlines today….

LOTS OF UNSETTLED WEATHER – YOU TAKE CONTROL

The weather today and into tomorrow has many moving parts; various fronts, areas of rain or showers, thunderstorm potential, hail potential, snow potential, strong winds…… the list goes on.

It can get a little exhaustive trying to describe everything in detail when it comes to systems like this. So, can we please direct you to various areas on both our websites that will fill you in.

For weather watches and warnings issued by Metservice, here.

For today’s thunderstorm outlook issued by Metservice, here.

Temperature information, here.

Wind information, here.

Rain information, here.

Current live rain radar courtesy of Metservice, here.

You can also search your location on the Weatherwatch and Ruralweather websites to dial in on details more specific to you with hour by hour breakdowns on what is coming up.

If one is not satisfied then please tune into our daily video presented by Philip Duncan around midday, you will see it posted on our homepage and our YouTube channel.

❄️Latest 48 hour upcoming snow fall map for #NewZealand.

🏂Half a metre of snow expected on the mountains around Queenstown (great for ski fields!).

🚜Not very much to low levels, which is better for farmers.

🚗Risk of snow on SH1, the Desert Road on Wednesday. pic.twitter.com/ifcJfewGzK

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) July 31, 2023

☔️3 Day upcoming rainfall for #Australia and 2 days for #NewZealand.

View one week of upcoming rain for New Zealand here: https://t.co/X7aCOr9ZGQ pic.twitter.com/lYZvZSYxfD

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) July 31, 2023

🚨No shortage of severe weather risks for #NewZealand over the next day or two.

⚠️View all @MetService Severe weather warnings & watches here: https://t.co/7xoHnjeNiw

⚡️View the @MetService thunderstorm outlook here: https://t.co/CrXdyQC53A pic.twitter.com/IQeNzPiSpQ

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) July 31, 2023

🌡️Tuesday is warmer than average across most of #NewZealand, but Wednesday turns colder.

Despite a wintry blast on Wednesday, about half of NZ still has near-normal temperatures (those in blue will be colder than average).https://t.co/D35ySCkVqG / https://t.co/gb7E1quzdb pic.twitter.com/oRLILcH9lN

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) July 31, 2023

HEAVY FROST THURSDAY MORNING

As high pressure starts to move in over the South Island overnight Wednesday into Thursday expect conditions to clear up for the inner South Island north of Otago. This means heavy frost potential on Thursday morning. While the map below shows temperatures below zero for the far south on Thursday morning this will be more a function of air temperature versus a still crisp morning frost.

Many parts of the inner North Island will see frosty conditions also.

Friday morning has frost potential too.

RAIN OUTLOOK

The precipitation percentage of normal map below shows where rainfall is expected to be more than average for this time of year or less.

Much of the North Island and parts of the eastern South Island are looking drier than normal. Elsewhere average to wetter than average, especially the West Coast and southern Wairarapa / eastern Wellington.

The map below runs from today through to Tuesday 8th August. Blue coloring means that part of the country is likely to see more rainfall than would normally be expected at this time of year, red means less rainfall is expected and white is an average amount of rainfall. The more intense either red or blue then either scenario is more true.