A low and southeasterly airflow combine to bring heavy rain and possible thunderstorms to the North Island today. Photo / Paul Taylor
A low and southeasterly airflow combine to bring heavy rain and possible thunderstorms to the North Island today. Photo / Paul Taylor
Rain and thunderstorms may hit the North Island today.
A complex low over the North Island will likely bring rain or showers and possible thunderstorms and localised downpours to many parts today and tomorrow.
A heavy rain warning is in place for Wairarapa, including the Tararua District, from 6am thismorning through to Thursday afternoon.
Up to 120mm-160mm is expected to accumulate, with up to 15-25mm an hour.
Downpours are also expected in Hawke's Bay and Taranaki, especially about Mt Taranaki.
Conditions will ease over the South Island, which suffered the low yesterday.
"In the South Island it will generally be quite a nice day, with a little bit of rain in northern parts around Nelson and the Marlborough region," Mercer said.
"There is also cloud from Banks Peninsula northwards, but most of the rest of the South Island is fine this morning."
Southland and Otago will have a mostly sunny morning, then showers from early afternoon, and cloud will break to sunny spells in Canterbury this afternoon.
The current high for the day is in Tauranga, which is sitting at 21.9C, and Gore in Southland is the current low at 5C.
Here's tomorrow's forecast maximum temperatures. A few degrees warmer in the south, and a few degrees cooler for central and northern NZ. ^HM pic.twitter.com/dcrxQex89C
