Friday sees wet weather crossing NZ from the west ahead of a colder weekend – and a cold week next week for many places as frosts and high pressure return.

There may be some snow to 300 metres in the South Island and around the North Island’s Central Plateau on Friday/Saturday (including the Desert Road).

Next week high pressure moves into the South Island with widespread frosts and low temperatures – this affects the North Island too, but an easterly flow means eastern areas have more cloud and showers, western areas sunnier/drier – although northern NZ will be close (again) to a subtropical low which may feed more easterlies, cloud and showers in to the upper North Island.

EARLY HEADS UP:
We also take a long range look 12 days away at a *potential*  wintry/snowy outbreak for New Zealand – we show you the long range modelling for that.