Windy weather not causing problems

A strong wind watch for Hawke's Bay didn't appear to amount to much other than a few buffeted signs, flags and people yesterday.

MetService issued a strong wind watch for Wairarapa and Hawke's Bay, south of Hastings, from yesterday morning until 1am tomorrow with westerlies expected to reach gale at times in exposed places.

This weather was due to a deep and extensive area of low pressure over the Southern Ocean and a high over the Tasman Sea.

MetService meteorologist Sarah Haddon said the stronger winds were expected to continue all day today but would ease to southwesterlies overnight as a ridge of high pressure spreads over the country from the west.

Due to this, however, some showers were expected tomorrow but would stop by the evening.

"There will be a period of showers from Sunday morning."

Despite some wind, today will be fine with high cloud, she said.

Yesterday's wind watch had worried many but while it was breezy in Hastings and further south it did not appear to cause any problems for residents.

Unison relationship manager Danny Gough said they had expected potential outages with the forecast weather but it hadn't amounted to anything.

"We were pleasantly surprised really."

He was keeping his "fingers crossed" and hoped for no disruptions overnight or today, he said.

Unison had advised people to secure outdoor items yesterday morning in preparation for any high winds.

Haddon said next week was looking fine apart from Wednesday which had another southerly developing and a few showers expected.

Temperatures are expected to reach 22C today but will be a bit lower tomorrow at 17C then slowly raise to 19C on Monday and reach 21C on Tuesday.

Tomorrow night is expected to be chilly with an overnight low of 5C but the rest of the week is sitting at about 8C or 9C.

Any power outages will be listed on Unison's website www.unison.co.nz/outages.