High pressure dominates NZ’s weather this week, but slides off much of the country by Labour Day Monday. Despite the high pressure zone we do still have some windy, cloudy and showery areas – but many regions have a dry or mainly dry week ahead.

Rain and wind picks up this weekend, with most of the rain in the southern half of the West Coast, sliding northwards. Winds also pick up in a few places, especially by Monday.

The long weekend starts off pretty good in most places, but perhaps ends on a windier or wetter note for some – Phil explains where and when.

Programming Notes:

• Apologies for the later publishing time this evening due to extremely slow internet connection for uploading to YouTube.

• Due to the quiet weather this week we have no video update for NZ tomorrow (Tuesday) – but this video is basically for Tuesday Oct 20 through to Labour Day Monday.

• Phil is out of the studio this week with family commitments, but should be back on screen by Friday. Thanks for the supportive messages lately with our videos being slightly different format than usual and not having all the clear labels we usually have!