NZ: Here. Comes. Winter!

*Correction: This was recorded on TUESDAY (not Thursday as Phil accidently says... blame the long weekend!) --- Snow to low levels, thundery downpours and a significant temperature drop is on the way for New Zealand later this week and coming weekend with some places inland through the South Island dropping to -10C with daytime highs barely in the positive single digits.

Snow to sea level is possible in Southland and Otago, but as of today it was more likely above 100 or 200m in those areas. Snow to sea level is often borderline in NZ unless we have an Antarctic blast off the ice shelf - this one is close, but not quite coming from that area.

All of NZ will be affected by this wintry change - but not everyone will have severe weather with our mountains and ranges splitting up the wet weather and windy weather.

We have your forecast through until Sunday.