Summer festival-goers can breathe a sigh of relief - chances are the big New Year events nationwide won't be washed out as they were last year.
Party-goers to the annual two-day CoroGold music festival held over last New Year's Eve cleaned Whitianga and surrounding towns out of gumboots and wet-weather gear as the skies opened.
CoroGold event organiser Mark Wright "couldn't be happier" about Niwa's forecast for a dry summer.
"It's less work and we just want to show how good it can be. When the weather does what it did last year it's hard to do that," he said.
"So we are looking forward to being able to get out there and deliver a really good event."