Hawke's Bay could get its biggest taste of summer to date with already-warm forecast to peak about 29 degrees Celsius midweek.
It comes after a series mainly mild Novembers in recent years, since 2016, the warmest November nationwide in 16 years and with the start of the fourth week featuring temperatures in Hawke's Bay as high as Wairoa's 34.4C.
MetService was on Monday forecasting temperatures in Napier would rise from a peak of 22C on Tuesday to up to 29C on Wednesday amid developing high cloud developing in the morning and northerlies predominating in the afternoon.
Hawke's Bay was not expected to be touched by the adverse weather forecast for further north, with a heavy rain warning in place from late-morning to near midnight Monday for the Bay of Plenty side of East Cape, although some morning rain was being forecast for Wairoa on Tuesday.
But temperatures were expected to dip back to the low 20s at the weekend, with a maximum of 22C and rain and southeasterlies developing on Saturday – Guy Fawkes Day and the day of the Six60 concert at McLean Park.
