We take a look at the hot weather across large parts of the country and we also go to the tropics where there is a big jump in energy north of New Zealand for the first half of February. But in the days ahead we have more hot weather, several degrees above normal and consistently so for a number of days in a row.

Not everyone is impacted by the heatwave (like coastal western areas of both islands), however warm nights are on the way there while hot days are kicking in again inland today and for the next few days with highs in the low even mid 30s.

By Friday a cold front reaches the South Island and moves into the North Island on Saturday and falls apart – but many areas will get a temperature drop, some by a few degrees, others by over 10 degrees on where they are this week…and this cool change will reset a lot of places back to normal, not colder than normal.