A damp end to Easter is predicted for Northland as heavy rains are forecast to plague the region for most of Monday.
MetService has issued an orange heavy rain warning for Northland from midnight on Sunday to midnight on Monday.
Conditions were to deteriorate late on Sunday afternoon due to a subtropical low-pressure system north of the country.
A low to the northwest of the North Island is expected to direct a moist unstable northeasterly flow with embedded fronts on to the Far North.