Here’s what is making the weather headlines today….

ANOTHER COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH

A cold front raced over the South Island last night, it’s the North Island’s turn this morning into the afternoon. Most regions will experience showers with this change but it’s not all that long lasting, conditions start to clear for the South Island from this morning and this evening for the North Island.

Day time highs have dropped today compared to yesterday, we have a drop overnight also with frosts by dawn tomorrow for inland parts of both Islands.

Snow isn’t really an issue with this front, the ranges of Southland and perhaps parts of Otago may see flurries above 600m but there’s nothing much to it, any accumulations will be minimal to non existent at that level, perhaps accumulating higher up.

SETTLED ON THURSDAY THANKS TO A HIGH

High pressure moves in overnight tonight bringing clearing skies, Thursday is mainly sunny for most. There is a weak trough however and this could bring a few showers to coastal Bay Of Plenty in the morning, Coromandel afternoon, Auckland evening then Northland overnight.

RAINFALL OUTLOOK

The outlook for the next seven days shows the western side of the country is going to have more rain then in the east, the precipitation percentage of normal map below shows this with the blue shading in the west, red shading in the east.

While we do have showers move through for most regions today there’s nothing overly dramatic in there, the rest of the week and into the weekend is mainly dry for most apart from a few showers in the northeast (East Cape to Northland). Monday next week rain picks up in the far north then all western regions look to get rain on Tuesday and Wednesday while it remains dry in the east.