We have the forecast for NZ, Australia and the South Pacific through to Wednesday next week as tropical lows try to form and high pressure dominates in the Tasman Sea – bringing settled weather finally to south eastern Australia and a surge of hot weather next week.

That means NZ will be going the other way, with a slightly cooler change moving in this weekend for some areas (those in the north are least impacted).

We track the remaining gales, thunderstorms and rain – and focus on where the large settled areas will be.