There would be a fine start to Monday before some more widespread showers in the latter half of the day.
“For the rest of the week, it looks like it will be pretty dry, potentially until Friday. There is a front that is going to move up the South Island on Thursday and then over the North Island on Friday,” she said.
“Once that has gone through, it should clear out later on Friday, then it looks like we are going to have a bit of a narrow ridge over the rest of the country. So to start the weekend, at this stage we are looking a bit drier.”
Napier and Hasting sat with nearly identical temperatures close to midday on Sunday, 15.1C and 15.2C respectively.