Speaking to Breakfast<\/a> on Thursday, MetService meteorologist Heather Keats said the South Island would bear the brunt of the bad weather over the long weekend.<\/p>\n“We’ve got a couple of new fronts coming up the southwest of the South Island,” Keats said. <\/p>\n
“It’s that classic behaviour, they move up over Fiordland, they travel up the West Coast. <\/p>\n
“So Saturday and Sunday, not great for any outside Easter egg hunts, unless you don’t mind soggy chocolate.” <\/p>\n
Elsewhere, much of the country could expect more settled conditions to start the long weekend. <\/p>\n
Across the upper North Island, including Auckland and Northland, there would be cloudy periods and isolated showers followed by fine spells during Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n
Central and lower North Island regions were forecast to be mostly fine, with areas of morning cloud or fog and odd showers about higher ground. <\/p>\n
Further south, eastern areas such as Canterbury and Otago were expected to remain mostly fine throughout Friday, with some patchy morning fog and high cloud. <\/p>\n
On the West Coast, cloud and showers would spread north throughout the day, turning into possible heavy rain in the evening.<\/p>\n
Looking ahead to the rest of the Easter weekend, MetService said partial cloud and isolated showers could be expected for most of the North Island on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Heavy rain was expected to continue for the western and southern parts of the South Island throughout Saturday, easing into Sunday. <\/p>\n
Cloud and partial showers were expected across most areas on Monday, with rain forecast for Northland later in the day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A heavy rain warning has been issued for the West Coast as a slow-moving front tracks over the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[111,43,139,69,3393],"class_list":{"0":"post-360963","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-weather-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}