A fairly unsettled weather pattern will continue around New Zealand for the next several days as we end January. 

This weekend low pressure from the Tasman Sea will try to move in but falls apart as it does so, mostly on Sunday bringing showers to both main islands and a cooler southerly change in the south (and warmer west to nor’west winds in the North Island). 

Next week we see high-pressure crossing New Zealand bringing settled summer weather along with another burst of westerlies driving in heavy rain for the West Coast and sunnier and hotter weather for those along the east, but another cool change in southern NZ.