A weak low near the upper North Island will bring further rain and showers to East Cape and Gisborne and surrounding regions, but most other parts of New Zealand are leaning drier than average over the coming week due to more high pressure dominating.

The high pressure zone is bringing widespread frosts to the South Island – check out our FREE Frost Forecaster at RuralWeather.co.nz to drill down deeper.

Meanwhile Australia has another burst of windy westerlies which will juuust reach the lower South Island of NZ this weekend.

We have your forecast out to Monday of next week.