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Brief Forecast for all New Zealand
Valid to Midnight Saturday, 20-Apr
Northland, Auckland and Coromandel Peninsula
A few showers, some heavy. Rain tomorrow with heavy falls and possible thunderstorms, easing around evening.
Waikato, Waitomo, Taumarunui, Taupo, Taranaki, Taihape, and Bay of Plenty
Rain or showers spreading east overnight, heavy at times with possible thunderstorms, easing tomorrow afternoon and evening.
Gisborne and Hawke's Bay
Cloud increasing, rain developing tomorrow.
Whanganui to Wellington, also Wairarapa
Fine and cloudy periods. Isolated showers tomorrow afternoon.
Marlborough, Nelson, Buller, Westland, Canterbury and Otago
Partly cloudy. Few showers in Otago and Canterbury this evening.
Fiordland and Southland
Showers clearing tonight. Rain developing tomorrow night, mainly about the coast.
Chatham Islands
Cloudy periods.
Outlook for following three days
Sunday
North Island: A few early showers about the northern half of the island, clearing for most but persisting about Gisborne. Mainly fine in the south.
South Island: Rain in Fiordland, and a few showers up the West Coast and about Southland. Fine elsewhere.
Monday
North Island: Isolated showers spreading northwards during the day, clearing to fine afterwards.
South Island: Early showers in the west and about the Southland, clearing. Mainly fine elsewhere.
Tuesday
Rain developing about Fiordland, and later in the day about Westland. A mainly fine for the rest of the country.
Chatham Islands
Fresh southerlies and isolated showers on Sunday. Rain developing on Monday with a strong southwest change. A few showers clearing early Tuesday to mainly fine weather, and strong southwesterlies easing to lighter westerlies.
Issued: 6:14pm Friday 19 Apr 2024