Скачать или смотреть NZ: Tropical low, then windy, cooler, weather dominates until early next week (21/1/26)

We have full details on the wind, rain and tropical humidity descending into New Zealand today, tonight and Thursday - then explain how the low will park itself between the South Island and the Chatham Islands this weekend and into early next week, creating a colder/cooler southerly change (and perhaps more west to south-west for the North Island).

Heaviest rain today and Thursday looks to be leaning east in the upper North Island, for Northland, Auckland, Coromandel Peninsula, Bay of Plenty, East Cape, Gisborne and northern Hawke's Bay, but rain may also spread into Canterbury and other regions of the South Island.

Tropical humidity will also be a significant feature of this low later today, tonight/overnight and Thursday morning - especially the top half of the North Island with some very muggy weather coming in, before a more refreshing westerly arrives on Thursday PM.

The windy weather sticks around for some regions for a number of days, with showers around the South Island and especially the western side of the North Island.

We break it all down for you.

With such a large low, forecasts may change - as is the nature of big low pressure zones interacting with our mountains and ranges. Keep up to date with our hourly forecasts in our free WeatherWatch App or RuralWeather.co.nz and of course the MetService severe weather warnings and watches.