This week is much warmer than last week was with winds mainly coming from the west and north and boosting temperatures into the late teens or even early 20s.

Towards Thursday and Friday a low from Australia moves in with strong to gale norwester, rain for the West Coast and even some spillover into Canterbury, especially on Sunday.

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