Both New Zealand and eastern Australia have some dynamic, changeable, weather coming over the next week or so.

New Zealand hits reset on Friday and Friday night with a colder change sweeping up NZ and removing that northern humidity – but incredibly brings a mid-December frost risk to some inland parts of the South Island.

Next week a small offshore storm hits Sydney and brushes other eastern areas while in the tropics between Fiji and Vanuatu a tropical cyclone is expected to form – and may well reach NZ (or the NZ area) in about 10 days from now.