HIGH PRESSURE QUICK TO PUSH IN

A high pressure system is hot on the heels of a front moving onto the North Island today bringing in a southerly quarter airflow. The high lies over the South Island bringing mainly settled conditions but there is quite a bit of cloud about especially in the east with showers or drizzle mostly clearing for Canterbury this morning. A few isolated showers crop up for Buller this afternoon.

TEMPERATURES SET TO DROP EASTERN NORTH ISLAND

Yes temperatures will drop for the eastern North Island today as south to southwesterly winds freshen, however, before winds freshen up this afternoon it will be quite warm. Napier and Gisborne get up to between 23 to 24 degrees around midday then SSW winds move in. Wairarapa gets southwesterlies, cloud and a few showers from this morning so highs are around 19 to 20 degrees there.

RETURN OF SOME FOG

This morning inland parts of the North Island may have some fog, this will break away fairly promptly. Overnight tonight and again overnight Thursday expect areas of fog for inner parts of the South Island.

The below graph shows the fog risk for Thursday morning and overnight Thursday / Friday morning. To find out the Fog risk for your location please visit ruralweather.co.nz , type in your location then click on the “Fog/Cloud” tab.