Anyone planning on gardening, going to the beach or taking a stroll in a park this Queen's Birthday weekend will have to take a rain check.
Wet weather, which came to the region on Thursday, is set to continue.
MetService meteorologist April Clark said a rapidly developing low pressure system north of the country and a trough associated with that brought the rain to Hawke's Bay.
The system led MetService severe weather meteorologists to issue heavy rain warnings and watches for Auckland, Northland and Coromandel.
Hawke's Bay missed the brunt of the weather but cloudy periods and isolated showers would linger throughout the weekend, she said.