MetService National Weather: August 30th - September 1st
Don’t put your raincoats away yet as spring is set to start with a tropically charged storm bringing rain to the north and east of the North Island this weekend.
The high-pressure system that has been sitting over the country for the past week bringing with it dry conditions, will be pushed away by a low-pressure system ushering in a weekend of wind and rain.
MetService meteorologist John Law said the low-pressure system will move in from the north and west and bring cloudier, windier conditions for Northland, Auckland and the Coromandel.
A wintry blanket of fog swept across Auckland city yesterday, cancelling flights, disrupting ferries and slowing drivers. Photo / Michael Craig
“It has been nice over the past week, however,things will go downhill during the weekend.”
Law said the top of the country could expect a “fair amount of rain”.
“There could be some more falls in some of the exposed areas, perhaps along a lot of the eastern side of the North Island,” he said.
Law said the rain will take time to clear away, and it was worth keeping an eye on the weather after the weekend.
However, he said there may be an upside: “The high pressure has brought dry days, it has been accompanied by cold nights but, while we will see wetter weather, we may see some slightly warmer weather”.
“Places like Whitianga in the Coromandel will [get] 2C overnight tonight, by Sunday it should see a minimum of 10C.”
Law said the weather during the first month of spring will be a mixed bag.
Western parts of the country and centres such as Wellington and the South Island’s West Coast might be in for wetter and windier conditions, while northern parts of the country could get weather.
View of Auckland in fog from the Sky Tower. Photo / Michael Craig
“Spring is going to be a little wetter and windier at least.”
Meanwhile, a heavy rain warning is in place at the bottom of the South Island, south of George Sound from early tomorrow morning to early Saturday morning with between 140mm to 180mm expected.
🌧 Heavy Rain Warning 🗺Where: Fiordland, south of George Sound. ⏰When: 3am Friday to 3am Saturday.
