It's set to be a busy night tonight with more cold and wintery weather in the south of the country, heavy rain and thunderstorms moving across the North Island early tomorrow and strong winds rushing up the Canterbury Coast. | MetService New Zealand

Cloud of the week winner 🌥 🎉 🏅 Our winner this week comes from Tori Harp. It is of a lenticular cloud atop Mount Cook Lenticular clouds form when stable, moist air is forced to rise as it moves over a mountain – as the air ascends, it cools and condenses into cloud droplets ☁, creating a distinctive, lens-shaped formation that often looks like a stack of pancakes or a flying saucer 🏔️🛸 Although strong winds may be blowing 🌬, lenticular clouds appear stationary because the air continuously

Wondering how the weather's impacting your Halloween plans? 🎃🤔 Worry no more 🤓💡- here's your spooky 2-day outlook👻🧟 The trick🪄 - these are not your typical cloud and sun icons🌥☀ The treat 🍬- you get do decipher your own forecast🔎🤓 For a detailed forecast: bit.ly/metservicenz | MetService New Zealand