Here’s what is making the weather headlines today.

Weather #icons only tell part of the forecast story!

This week you'll see plenty of 🌧️🌩️weather icons. This is because downpours inland will be big & may track into nearby regions. It's worth noting that around these downpours it may well be ☀️🌤️.

📡Track daily on rain radar! pic.twitter.com/8txPvz2lWG

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) December 18, 2022

#NewZealand & #Australia – Weather maps (x2) for Christmas and NYE.

🎅#ChristmasDay (looking good for most of NZ)
🏖️#NewYearsEve (not locked in yet, but perhaps not quite as settled for all).https://t.co/gb7E1qcpZ3 / https://t.co/D35ySCBYsG. pic.twitter.com/gk1QgH7Fo8

— WeatherWatch.co.nz (@WeatherWatchNZ) December 18, 2022

MORE THUNDERSTORMS TO COME THIS WEEK

We’ve had a few thunderstorms lately and there is more unstable weather to come this week, around the 25th December is when the unstable activity finally moves on thanks to cold upper air finally moving out of the way.

Keep up to date with any potential thunderstorm activity this week by looking at Metservices daily thunderstorm outlook’s here.

CHRISTMAS DAY FORECAST

Christmas Day is currently looking to be mainly settled at this stage with high pressure covering the country, we’ve been through the wringer lately and around the 24th or 25th conditions finally calm down. Till then, more instability in store as mentioned above.

COOL WEEK IN THE EAST

Airflows from the south or east bring cloud and cool temperatures to eastern regions this week, especially the eastern South Island. Temperatures in Christchurch all week staying in the mid to late teens.

Around the 24th or 25th December the temperature dial starts to get turned up, till then the upper North Island has plenty of warm weather coming up.

• 

• 

•