This week we switch gears, shifting into a more classic Autumn weather pattern with cold fronts, windy westerlies and nor\u2019westers, and temperature fluctuations. Colder airflows affect the southern half of the South Island in particular, while windy W to NW winds are off and on this week in a number of regions.<\/p>\n
The westerly flow means most wet weather is on the western side of the country, especially the West Coast.<\/p>\n
Another colder southerly develops this weekend \u2013 but so too does a large low. Large low\u2019s don\u2019t always bring severe weather, as the energy is spread out over a couple thousand kilometres, rather than a couple hundred kilometres like we had with Cyclone Vaianu, but we may have some pockets of wind and rain warnings around some parts of NZ this weekend.<\/p>\n
Programming Note:
Following a very busy weekend and past week we have no weather video updates on Tuesday, April 14 \u2013 Phil will catch you again on Wednesday for our next NZ weather outlook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week we switch gears, shifting into a more classic Autumn weather pattern with cold fronts, windy westerlies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-377615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}