Covering the South Pacific and Hawaii here is your 7 day forecast as we track a storm near the Cook Islands this week.

The storm will form rapidly and drop southwards quick – brushing past Rarotonga with wind and rain for a time – and some rough seas.

Elsewhere it’s remarkably settled thanks to high pressure from the NZ and Tasman Sea area. Hawaii is also looking settled.

We have a special 7 day rainfall outlook to make sense of what is going on rain-wise around the Pacific Ocean.