Fine weather is forecast for the rest of this week in Northland with a couple of chilly days following a deluge and hundreds of lightning strikes in some areas.
Statistics provided by MetService show areas between Hikurangi and the Bay of Islands experienced 620 lightning strikes between 6pm and midnight on Saturday.
There were 402 between 7pm and 9pm that day.
Those areas received up to 143mm of rain between midday on Friday and 10.40am today. The most rain in a short time fell at Dugmores Rock in Ngunguru which received 71mm in just three hours to 11pm on Saturday.
MetService weather forecaster Cameron Coutts said a complicated low pressure system over Northland was expected to move away by midday tomorrow before the southerlies arrived.