A large high will bring easterlies to northern New Zealand and mostly light winds elsewhere. We track a few showers over the coming days - we'll show you who is most at risk. Then we take a look at the end of January - and look at the rain chances for early February.
New Zealanders can expect fine and settled weather over the next few days as one high replaces another, Metservice forecasters predict.
"This will make a welcome change from the active troughs over the past few weeks,'' MetService media and communications meteorologist Daniel Corbett said.
Warm northwesterlies are set to returnin the east from Central Hawke's Bay to Canterbury, pushing temperatures into the high 20s and possibly the low 30s for some inland places, Corbett said.
Auckland won't be quite as warm but can expect temperatures in the mid-20s.
Things will cool down later in the week as a cold front makes its way up the country on Wednesday and Thursday, bringing heavy rain to the West Coast and showers in the east.
"Cyclones are like bulls in china shops, they tend to do what they want to. A fluctuation to the left or to the right could put either one of them in the path.''
The storm will be strengthening from a category one to a category three over the next day or two, said Corbett.
