As WeatherWatchh.co.nz has been highlighting since mid November 2020, the Southern Ocean’s weather pattern has been particularly unsettled and this will continue to provide the occasional cool change for the South Island, along with some wet weather. This week drier than average weather expands across most of NZ, the Tasman Sea and much of Australia. It doesn’t look like the usual La Nina set up, except for the heavy rain around some tropical islands to our north and a little in eastern Australia. On Thursday a low does drop out of the sub-tropics to our north east and brushes East Cape...