Hawke's Bay weather is expected to return to a sense of normality on Wednesday after several days of climatic flip-flopping varying from hot sunny weather to black clouds, thunder, lightning, rain and a smidgen of hail.
National weather agency MetService duty meteorologist Melissa Oosterwijk said late on Tuesday that after patches of thunderstorms broke out in Hawke's Bay, the next 24 hours was looking clearer.
"Thunderstorm activity is all over the area," she said, "but we're not expecting any on Wednesday."
Mid-afternoon downpours had scattered across the Napier-Hastings area, the dark thunder clouds clearly visible as they gathered.
Between 3pm and 4pm, there were downpours of 7.6mm at Hawke's Bay Airport and 6.8mm in Hastings Central but no rain in some nearby areas.