NZ Weather Forecast

Extended NZ Weather ForecastLast updated: 12:51PM Fri, May 25, 2012

• Sunday

  Rain spreading most places, with heavy and possibly thundery falls in the north and west of both islands. Scattered falls through Canterbury, spreading up the North Island east coast later. Gale northwesterlies affect central and southern New Zealand,easing later.

• Monday

  North Island, rain gradually clearing south of Auckland to Gisborne, and fine breaks developing. South Island, Rain or showers for the west. Showers and cool southerlies spreading up the east, reaching Christchurch at night. Snow about higher land in the south.

• Tuesday

  North Island, becoming fine north of the central plateau, a few showers developing further south with a cool southerly change, snow possible about the Desert Road. South Island, Showers clearing and becoming fine.

• Chatham Islands

  Fine breaks during Sunday. Rain developing on Monday, heavy for a time early Tuesday, then easing to a few showers. Northerlies strengthening on Sunday, rising to gale early Tuesday, then changing lighter southerly.

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Regional Weather ForecastLast updated: 8:11PM Fri, May 25, 2012

• Northland

  Mainly fine.

• Auckland to Manawatu, including the central high country

  Isolated showers today. Mainly fine tomorrow.

• Coromandel, Bay of Plenty

  Fine today. Patchy drizzle later tomorrow.

• Gisborne and Hawkes Bay

  Showers north of Wairoa clearing tonight and becoming fine everywhere. Fine tomorrow.

• Wairarapa, Wellington and Kapiti

  Mainly fine.

• Nelson, Marlborough

  Mostly fine, but drizzle about Nelson and the Sounds tomorrow evening.

• Canterbury

  Mainly cloudy overnight. Fine and becoming windy tomorrow.

• Otago, Southland

  Mainly fine. Becoming very windy tomorrow with rain about the Lakes and western Southland tomorrow evening.

• Buller to Fiordland

  Cloudy at times overnight. Drizzle tomorrow turning to rain in Westland and Fiordland in the evening, becoming heavy overnight.

• Chatham Islands

  Rain clearing tonight, then mainly fine.