MetService meteorologist Samkelo Magwala said the fronts would move through quickly, limiting rainfall totals despite brief heavy rain in some places.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, meteorologist John Law told the Herald it wasn\u2019t all bad news, with warmer weather and sunshine possible in parts of the country too.<\/p>\n
Showery start <\/p>\n
After a frosty start in parts of the North Island, Law said showers would push towards the western side of the country today.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor the eastern side of the South Island, we are still going to find a few showers creeping across as we head through the day.\u201d<\/p>\n
Law said places such as Hawke\u2019s Bay were set to be lucky with a \u201cpretty decent\u201d day and some spells of sunshine. <\/p>\n
On Saturday, the wet weather was forecast to move up the country.<\/p>\n
In the South Island, he said places from Fiordland to Buller would likely catch a few showers. <\/p>\n
\u201cOn the North Island I think we\u2019ll find it\u2019s still a cloudier, showery story for places from say Northland all the way down that western coast through Waikato, Waitomo, Taranaki and even down towards Manawat\u016b and the K\u0101piti Coast,\u201d Law said. <\/p>\n
He said the further east you are, the drier and brighter it would likely be.<\/p>\n
The main rain band is expected to arrive on Sunday. Image \/ MetService<\/p>\n
\u2018Active\u2019 weather ramps up on Sunday <\/p>\n
MetService said Sunday would be a more \u201cactive day\u201d as a front shifted across the South Island. <\/p>\n
Law said a change in wind direction would move up from the south, introducing wetter weather towards Southland and Otago and heavier rainfall for the West Coast. <\/p>\n
Southwest gales are also possible in coastal Clutha, Christchurch and along the Kaik\u014dura coast. <\/p>\n
MetService said as the front moved up the country, northwesterly gales would blow through the Cook Strait and into Wairarapa and southern Hawke\u2019s Bay.<\/p>\n
Law also said the wet weather would move towards the North Island by the afternoon. <\/p>\n
Auckland was expected to receive showers and spells of rain, with the heaviest on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe good news, the unsettled weather is short-lived due to a high-pressure system in the Tasman Sea, providing a settled start to the new working week,\u201d MetService said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MetService meteorologist Samkelo Magwala said the fronts would move through quickly, limiting rainfall totals despite brief heavy rain…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":610688,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[40647,3021,4509,5988,5616,111151,6559,2956,111,43,139,69,6046,1314,4062,300952,6633,4497,61,4998,4767,66367,102],"class_list":["post-610687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-blustery","tag-bring","tag-cold","tag-families","tag-forecast","tag-fronts","tag-heavy","tag-holidays","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-potential","tag-road","tag-school","tag-showery","tag-snow","tag-start","tag-to","tag-weather","tag-weekend","tag-windy","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610687","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=610687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/610688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}