For the crew creating the Mission Concert stage, the unseasonable weather of the past few days led to work being called off last Saturday and some challenges yesterday getting the fabric roofing in place.
"But it's all pretty well on track," T and C Staging owner/manager Stephen Kemble said at the site yesterday, as he kept one eye on the fast-moving clouds above.
Concert organisers and those set to comprise the hillside audience on Saturday have also been keeping an eye on the weather and, at this stage, according to MetService, the news is all good - except maybe for the soundchecks on Friday when rain is set to sweep over the region again. That will be only briefly, as the long-range forecast for concert day is a good one.
Fine skies with light winds and a temperature of 25C are forecast in what appears to be a blue sky oasis in an otherwise uncertain and uncharacteristic damp spell.
While Sunday, the pack-up day, is also set to be fine, rain is forecast to return on the Monday and linger until Wednesday.