“We also have an area of high pressure south to southwest of the Fiordland National Park and those two systems sort of act like a cog.”
MetService meteorologist Alain Baillie said there’s still some gloomy weather on the horizon.
“The next few days are going to be pretty showery by the looks of it,” Baillie said.
While rainfall totals aren’t set to reach Monday’s levels there may still be another spell of heavy rain coming at the latter end of the week as well as scattered showers.
“There might be a short period of heavier rain overnight Friday going into Saturday, but that then clears everything out.”
On a more positive note, Baillie noted that temperatures are set to be warmer than average throughout the week.
“It’s going to be very cloudy so it’s not going to cool down much overnight,” he said.
“If we look at Napier for example, the average overnight temperature is about 5C, and for the rest of this week it’s going to be 10 plus.”
Day average temperatures are set to range between 15-17C.
