Wera. Hot. It’s the talk of the country. Ka wera i tēnei ra (it’ll be hot today)! The temperatures are set to climb this afternoon with plenty of ka pai (great) weather around the country! You can see in this clip of today’s temperatures that the sea is quite warm too, if you’re wanting an afternoon dip!
With this warmer ocean and warmer daytime temperatures, Aotearoa is in for a bit of a warm night too.
With all this heat in the strong summer sun, remember to slip, slop, slap and be sun smart! Kia haumaru, stay safe!
^Tui
"There's been a couple of places where it's been cooler than others because there's a few areas of cloud lingering around New Zealand.
"Particularly, Kapiti Coast and Manawatu north of Wellington - it's been quite cloudy there so they haven't had the heat from the sun."
The same sort of temperatures experienced today around the 30C will be experienced again tomorrow. However, the hottest places will shift.
Eastern locations which were New Zealand's hottest temperatures yesterday and today will drop slightly in temperature, Hines said.
Sunny hot weather brings out the crowds at Waimarama Beach, Waimarama. Photo / Duncan Brown
"The areas that are going to be the hottest tomorrow are going to shift a little bit, some of those eastern spots are going to get an onshore flow," he said.
"The wind coming off the ocean will make things a few degrees cooler but they'll still be hovering in the high 20s to the low 30s.
"Some of the warmer spots are more likely to be inland, we're forecasting for Taumarunui and Te Kuiti both looking at a maximum of 34C."
Richmond near Nelson recorded the warmest minimum temperature ever in New Zealand, Niwa said earlier today, with 24.3C recorded.
This was the warmest minimum temperature for the region since records began 157 years ago. The previous record was 23.7C.
The weather can be defined as a heatwave because a number of places in New Zealand meet the threshold, MetService meteorologist Tui McInnes said.
